26 arrested in Clarksville prostitution sting.

[Chucktshoes]

Looks like there are a bunch of volunteers for the drawdown in that bunch of mugshots.

 

 

http://clarksvillenow.com/local/twenty-six-arrested-in-clarksville-prostitution-sting/

[Garufa]

How does one get a street name of "pancake"?

 

On second thought I probably don't want to know.

Edited April 7, 2014 by Garufa

[gjohnsoniv]

How does one get a street name of "pancake"?

 

On second thought I probably don't want to know.

That was my first question as well.

[Troutburger]

why do you take a ho to the hotel? cause a ho tell ever body even the major...

[Chucktshoes]

How does one get a street name of "pancake"?

 

On second thought I probably don't want to know.

Aww man! They got Pancake!

[hipower]

Point 1  I certainly hope the females pictured were looking for some like companionship. If not, we have some very hard up and non discriminating servicemen at Campbell.

 

Point 2  If I should ever be that tempted...please shoot me.

[JAB]

Point 1  I certainly hope the females pictured were looking for some like companionship. If not, we have some very hard up and non discriminating servicemen at Campbell.

 

Point 2  If I should ever be that tempted...please shoot me.

 

Ha!  When I lived on East Fifth in Knoxville, the carports were on an alley that was between and ran parallel to East Fifth and Magnolia.  Sometimes is was difficult to turn off of Olive onto that alley to go home because there were so many hookers standing around, blocking the alley.  I quickly learned, by seeing them, that your average street walker looks nothing like Elisabeth Shue in "Leaving Las Vegas" nor any number of hookers played by Hollywood hotties in any number of vice cop dramas.  The old saying, "I wouldn't **** her with your d***," came to mind.  Heck, I wouldn't have done it if they were paying me.

 

Then one day I was driving down the street on my way to the bank and noticed a couple of new faces standing at the corner of Olive and East Fifth.  There is a stop sign at that corner, the street isn't very wide and they were standing right at the edge of the sidewalk so I got a good look at them.  They looked exactly like the Hollywood depiction of a street walker or, maybe, something out of a porn flick.  They appeared to be quite attractive (with no herpes sores around their mouths, etc.)  Both wore skin tight, form fitting 'tube' dresses (one black and one red, a 'perfect' hooker pairing) that were cut well above - and I mean well above - their knees, showing off physiques that must have spent a significant amount of time in a gym.  Their hair was bottle-blonde (or wigs) but looked professionally done and teased/styled to within an inch of their lives.  Their shoes looked to be straight out of the 'Strippers 'R Us' catalog.  Their make-up was perfect and they didn't exude the 'desperate for my next fix' aura that most of the pros in that area did.

 

Well, I went on to the bank and when I came back home a few minutes later I noticed that both of them were gone.  I remember thinking to myself, "Damn, somebody is in for a surprise because those two were either undercover cops or very convincing transvestites.  Had to be one or the other because no, real hookers in this neighborhood ever looked like that."

Edited April 7, 2014 by JAB

[10-Ring]

If it has teeth and/or looks good, it's a cop!

[Hershmeister]

Dang - how'd they get a pic of this guys vinegar strokes?

[TMF]

Article says "crackdown on drugs and crime around exit 4", yet they roll up a bunch of desperate dudes trying to get laid? Good to see the streets are a little safer now? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[JWC]

Dang - how'd they get a pic of this guys vinegar strokes?]

Made me lol! I love The League

[frankmako]

what a sad bunch.  but with all the other problems that they could have gone after, they take a easy way out and go for the street walkers and the johns.  

[rugerla1]

How does one get a street name of "pancake"?

 

On second thought I probably don't want to know.

I will never look at Ihop the same  :rofl:

[TMF]

what a sad bunch.  but with all the other problems that they could have gone after, they take a easy way out and go for the street walkers and the johns.  

 

Yep.  I don't approve of entrapment as a manner of policing.  It is creating a crime where a crime might not otherwise exist. 

 

Beyond the lazy police work that entrapment is, this whole thing smacks of morality enforcement, which I have an equal issue with.  The police went online and solicited sex in exchange for money, then arrested those who agreed to those terms, then made a point to release the story to the press complete with pictures in order to publicly shame them.  If prostitution is such a crime, why not go after actual prostitutes and pimps?

[Chucktshoes]

Yep.  I don't approve of entrapment as a manner of policing.  It is creating a crime where a crime might not otherwise exist. 

 

Beyond the lazy police work that entrapment is, this whole thing smacks of morality enforcement, which I have an equal issue with.  The police went online and solicited sex in exchange for money, then arrested those who agreed to those terms, then made a point to release the story to the press complete with pictures in order to publicly shame them.  If prostitution is such a crime, why not go after actual prostitutes and pimps?

I almost wholly agree. Even better, why don't we pressure our legislators and other various and sundry elected officials to stop legislating and persecuting "crimes" that don't have a real victim. 

[Oh Shoot]

Legalize, license the provider (including strict as reasonably enforceable medical checks),  decriminalize the john, and hit it with the sin tax .  Increase criminal penalty for doing it off the books.

 

Prostitutes and customers are better off,  the cops can still bust unlicensed providers, gummit coffers are greased, and moralists are perfectly free to rant and protest as usual, even the ones that sample the services. :)

 

- OS

[Dustbuster]

I'll show you a happy ending!



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 of course it ate my spelling.

[Guest semiautots]

Legalize, license the provider (including strict as reasonably enforceable medical checks),  decriminalize the john, and hit it with the sin tax .  Increase criminal penalty for doing it off the books.

 

Prostitutes and customers are better off,  the cops can still bust unlicensed providers, gummit coffers are greased, and moralists are perfectly free to rant and protest as usual, even the ones that sample the services. :)

 

- OS

 

Great.  More government intervention and regulation into a market.

 

Don't you think if it was legal, the "johns" would gravitate towards the clean "ho's"?  The nice "homes"?  Why does gubment need to tax it?  Regulate it?  Sounds like a moral argument to me.

 

 

What really annoys me is the careers of those good soldiers that will now be ruined.

Edited April 8, 2014 by semiautots

[TMF]

and moralists are perfectly free to rant and protest as usual, even the ones that sample the services. :)

 

- OS

 

This never happened ever.

[Joseg]

Wow, Joes looking for a little strange, imagine that.. And dude you get caught in Uniform, stupid is, what stupid does.. 

Edited April 8, 2014 by Joseg

[btq96r]

The sad part about the guys in uniform is the three Brigade Combat teams back home (the other one is in Afghanistan now) have been back for at least a few months, some much longer.  This isn't just Joe going wild after getting off the plane.

Edited April 8, 2014 by btq96r

[Oh Shoot]

Great.  More government intervention and regulation into a market.

 

Don't you think if it was legal, the "johns" would gravitate towards the clean "ho's"?  The nice "homes"?  Why does gubment need to tax it?  Regulate it?  Sounds like a moral argument to me.

 

Legalize a "sin" without gummit regulation? Sure, quite a history of that in USA.  :rolleyes:  Sounds like a Pollyanna argument to me.

 

- OS

[Guest semiautots]

Legalize a "sin" without gummit regulation? Sure, quite a history of that in USA.  :rolleyes:  Sounds like a Pollyanna argument to me.

 

- OS

 

Lots of freedom before, say, 1914

[A.J. Holst]

Legalize, license the provider (including strict as reasonably enforceable medical checks),  decriminalize the john, and hit it with the sin tax .  Increase criminal penalty for doing it off the books.

 

Prostitutes and customers are better off,  the cops can still bust unlicensed providers, gummit coffers are greased, and moralists are perfectly free to rant and protest as usual, even the ones that sample the services. :)

 

- OS

 

Legalize, license and tax???!!! What, are you a neo-hippy??? Next you'll be promoting legalizing/decriminalizing pot...LOL

 

Saw a quote from a Colorado LEO, "there is nothing more addictive than tax revenues to the guv'mint."

[Oh Shoot]

Legalize, license and tax???!!! What, are you a neo-hippy??? Next you'll be promoting legalizing/decriminalizing pot...LOL

 

Saw a quote from a Colorado LEO, "there is nothing more addictive than tax revenues to the guv'mint."

 

Yep, just another example. The states are licensing and taxing sales, and the fed will be no different if it becomes "legal" nationwide. Just like liquor and tobacco.

 

Porn is the only "sin" that's relatively unregulated, though there are lots of local laws. I think we still have the pastie/g-string thing in Knox county clubs, and none at all in city?

 

- OS