"In Las Vegas, crackdown on ‘clubs gone wild'; Trendy venues vex authorities" by Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times | September 27, 2009
LAS VEGAS - In July, gaming regulators slapped the Planet Hollywood casino with a $500,000 fine for its Prive nightclub’s bad behavior, including “topless and lewd activity’’ and dumping club-goers in the casino “in various states of consciousness.’’
The same month, the Rio closed its Sapphire topless pool, managed by a local gentleman’s club, after authorities arrested 10 people on suspicion of prostitution and drug crimes. Over Labor Day weekend, eight more arrests on similar charges were made at the Hard Rock Hotel’s pool club, Rehab. It’s all part of a crackdown by authorities on what they see as clubs gone wild....
THAT is why WE DON'T WANT CASINOS HERE in MASSACHUSETTS!!!
We DON'T WANT their FALSE PROMISES and CRIME!
It was “Prive-gate’’ that truly rattled the town’s after-dark scene.
In July, when Planet Hollywood agreed to the $500,000 fine, which Prive partly paid, the casino also admitted to a lengthy list of violations: At Prive, patrons were involved in drugs and brawls, and minors were served alcohol. Some club-goers were hospitalized after drinking too much. Police calls to Planet Hollywood soared, and authorities noted “significant prostitution activity’’ near the club.
“The conduct is going to happen,’’ Peter C. Bernhard, state Gaming Commission chairman, said at a recent commission meeting....
So just live with it, right?
Better go after the nonviolent pot people who need medicine, huh?!
Oh, yeah, in case you did not know I AM a STRICT PROHIBITIONIST!!!
If it is good enough for weed, it is good enough for booze.
Oh, already tried that, didja? Whadda ya mean it DIDN'T WORK?
Clark County yanked Prive’s liquor licenses in late July. New accusations began to fly. For example, a former security director said managers told him to curb the number of black patrons on weekends, according to documents obtained by Las Vegas Weekly.
Now THAT really ought to get things stirred up!
In response, a Prive representative told the Weekly that the security director had been fired for cause and the club was “without knowledge’’ of the documents. The club did not address the allegations.
Prive attorney Jay Brown told the Clark County Commission during recent hearings that by replacing certain employees and operating under the close watch of multiple agencies, the club had quelled its troubles. It agreed to give authorities unrestricted access; turn over its records, including security logs; and keep patrons out of back areas and off dance poles, where some have flashed too much skin.
I guess I missed a lot in life.
Commissioners wagged their fingers, but in the end allowed the venue to regain its liquor licenses, at least temporarily.
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AmeriKa's pastime: DRUNKEN, HEDONISTIC, IMMORAL REVELRY!
See: Occupation Iraq: The Party's Over America Moves the Party to Afghanistan
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During the heyday of the “What happens here, stays here’’ tourism campaign, the must-have accessory for any Las Vegas Strip casino was a pulsating nightclub that lured Hollywood starlets and drunken tourists willing to pay for a few hours of shimmer.
Where's the coke tray?
That has sometimes proved to be an ill-fated mix. Although the clubs are reliable moneymakers and publicity machines, some have vexed officials for their mimicry of fraternity parties - including stripping contests, fistfights, and accusations of drug use and sexual assaults.
In the last decade, smoky lounges on the Strip gave way to three-story megaclubs and booze-drenched pool parties. Out on the cutting edge of trendy are clubs such as the bronze-walled XS, the centerpiece of casino magnate Steve Wynn’s resort Encore.
And this is one of the guys looking to come to Massachusetts? Stay the F*** out!
Most of the clubs, which pull in tens of millions of dollars from high-volume sales of alcohol and special seating, successfully keep thousands of tourists under control. But the venues, jostling for the same young crowd, have a penchant for envelope-pushing - and the casinos, Randall Sayre of the Nevada Gaming Control Board said, have mostly kept their hands off the cash machines.
Yeah, to hell with the neighborhood.
In the last two years, Clark County has warned clubs about a wet boxer shorts contest and women shedding shirts at events such as “Lose the Tan Lines.’’ Some clubs launched stripping contests; others tried to sneak around no-nudity ordinances by slathering women in body paint....
Where are the feminists -- or is this considered the "liberation of women" we are pushing on the rest of the world?
Related: Bikini vs. Burka
I'm with him -- to a point.
Many night life problems are far graver, however, which could prove problematic for casinos in the long run. Gaming regulators can hold them responsible for most anything that unfolds on their properties....
What about the PEOPLE LIVING AROUND THEM, you agenda-pushing PoS?
In 2006, the state Gaming Control Board told casinos it was concerned about reports of violent, excessively drunk, and underage club-goers.
The UNDERAGE really starts to BUG ME!
In the last year, authorities have noticed an increase in prostitution and narcotics crimes at Strip hot spots, said Officer Bill Cassell of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Yeah, THEY BRING IT WITH THEM!
Of course, they are ALREADY HERE:
"Strippers’ lawsuit challenges independent contractor status" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | September 18, 2009
An English major at Framingham State College who lives in Boxborough and gives her age as “thirty-something,’’ Noel Van Wagner said her husband, an engineer, showed her a newspaper article about the earlier suit....
Then WHY is she STRIPPING?
I always wonder about the guy in these kinds of relationships. Who lets his wife go strip so some sickie can drool, ogle her, and stuff money in her belt as he smells her crotch?
Yeah, I've been to a few, readers, and I wasn't impressed.
Btw, being a designated driver sucks.
Strippers sometimes barely earn enough to make it worth it....
Then quit.
So now the agenda-pushing moralists down at the Boston Globe are feeling sorry for strippers? At least they have a job, right?
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Well, some do.
And HERE is some of that CRIME they were talking about:
"Slain dancer had said she worried for her safety" by John R. Ellement and Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | October 3, 2009
EVERETT - Police questioned a man last night in connection with the slaying of a 24-year-old exotic dancer outside her apartment early yesterday morning....
You have to love the politically correct euphemisms.
And FOR the RECORD (if you read me regularly you would know this), I am NOT FOR ANYONE BEING KILLED no matter what the situation (except for lying looters and mass-murdering war criminals after trials)!!
BEAUTY just got TAKEN OUT of this world and that is NEVER DESIRED HERE!!!!!
Sheila Santos moved from Brazil in 2006.
That last bit caught my eye.
More:
Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr., would not say whether there was a link between the killing and her work as a stripper. She worked at King Arthur’s in Chelsea before the Stoughton nightspot....
Ana Paola Santos, also a dancer at Club Alex’s, said she last spoke to her sister in the parking lot of the Stoughton club as she was leaving and Sheila was arriving for work, at about 1 a.m. yesterday....
This is TRAGIC, readers!
However, I can't help but think that -- reading between the lines here -- that there is not some illegal immigrant sex-smuggling and traffic.
And if not, is THIS the DREAM of coming to AmeriKa?
To be a STRIPPER in SOME SLEAZY DIVE, so much so that your LIFE is at RISK?!!
Sheila Santos, the youngest of five children, arrived in the United States three years ago, from Mirante Da Serra, Brazil, following her two older sisters here....
So what isn't the Globe telling us?
Is there going to be an investigation of the stripper pipeline from Brazil?
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What is also scandalous, readers, is the globalization of economies has only contributed to the immense suffering and poverty in places like Brazil and other countries south.
That is why these beautiful young women are forced to come here and take these kinds of jobs. I can't imagine any of them really WANT to do this for a living, and if so, maybe they need their head examined.
