October 12, 2005

Do you feel safer?

I hope that you all feel safer knowing that "Mercedez" and "Destiny" will FINALLY be kept three feet away from Jim down at the strip club...

Eight years after the city tried to crack down on adult businesses with rules including a ban on lap dances, Metro is putting action behind its controversial law.

Some say the years of court delays have made the rules obsolete — and expensive for the taxpayers — even as the regulations are getting off the ground.

One of the cornerstones of the new regulations is a "3-foot" rule, requiring dancers to keep at least 3-feet distance from patrons. And while the average lap dance today runs about $30, Metro's bill for ending the lap dance runs into the six figures: A $500,000-plus award of attorney fees to strip club owners and dancers, as well about $100,000 per year to fund the city's new bureaucracy to enforce the rules.

Out of that $100,000 about $55,400 will be for salary for the inspector, more than 400 background checks per year for the pole professionals and around $2,600 for court reporter fees.

Meanwhile, in another part of town.

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Ah. So finally dancers can be touched only with a three-foot pole. Thank goodness our taxpayer dollars are so hard at work.

Posted by: Katherine Coble at October 12, 2005 09:55 AM

Will the strippers or the patrons get tasered if they get too close?

Posted by: Sarcastro at October 12, 2005 12:49 PM

"Mercedez" and "Destiny?" "Pole Professionals?" You seem particularly well versed in the parlance of the stripping profession. Are you a regular patron?

Posted by: Big Daddy at October 12, 2005 02:03 PM

Patron? Heck, that's how he made his way through college!

Posted by: notfaulkner at October 12, 2005 02:34 PM

this is another example of politicians who have nothing better to do except focus on the wrong thing (what about the education system!!???)

Posted by: ha ha ha at October 14, 2005 04:02 AM