Like it or not, this is what happens when you start banning things. The activity you want to stop just goes underground. "They have succeeded in creating this underground, sleazy, cash-only business that cannot be regulated, taxed or secured by police."
Cleveland underground clubs allowing smoking, sex
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CLEVELAND - Underground nightclubs where patrons can smoke freely and watch strippers after midnight have opened in some of the city's residential neighborhoods since the state began enforcing new restrictions on strip clubs and public smoking last year, police say.
Some of the nightclubs, also called "smokehouses," offer customers the opportunity to have sex with prostitutes, police said.
"They have succeeded in creating this underground, sleazy, cash-only business that cannot be regulated, taxed or secured by police," attorney Skip Lazzaro, who represents legal nightclubs, said.
Informants have told police that patrons are mostly white suburban men. Customers bring their own liquor, cigarettes, and cigars. A reference is sometimes required for entry, and doormen collect as much as $25.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080204/NEWS03/802040...
Way to go Cleveland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just like prohibition. If we do not learn from our mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them - who said that? (asking). Prohibition didn't work before - why do they think the results will be different NOW? Prohibition only invites underground establishments like this to thrive - usually with the mob running the show. The sheer arrogance of this new breed of nanny state mindset would be laughable, if the results weren't so grim. The nannies think they know how to make prohibition work 'this time'. But it will just be a repeat of history. About every 80 years or so, this country goes through a puritanical cycle. If I may be so bold to say so - the nannies in charge should maybe spend more time worrying about more important things than what legal activities other people do. There seems to have been a spawning of sociopathic, misbehaving, disrespectful children - who do they belong to? The nannies I bet.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” , George Santayana.
“History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes”, Mark Twain.
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
I love it, myself.
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"Oh, Bother!" Said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.
Sounds like a decent business venture to me. I'm thinking that with the right location it could be a real money maker.
Pretty gray line if one had a pole barn and accepted donations. Private property accepting the goodwill of his neighbors.
I smoke "illegally" in a bar and now I'm equated to a prostitute?! Hell I might as well rob a bank while I'm at it!
At least you would do Federal time for robbing a bank.
Can't wait for a reply to a Grant I wrote recently.
It's for 'seed' money to start up my 'Re-Education' Centers.