Nude Juice Bar Meets Resistance

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I actually read this in the newspaer and laughed outloud. :7

http://www2.cbs5.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_033150117.html

Nude Juice Bar Meets Resistance

Feb 2, 2005 11:42 am US/Pacific

SALEM, S.D. (AP) The mix of nude dancers, orange juice and black-and-white independent films wasn’t in Bob Rieger’s original business plan.

But it has helped his Racehorses Gentlemen’s Club survive amid the cornfields of McCook County and fend off a two-year barrage of challenges from politicians and outraged members of Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography.

“I’ve been to court with them four times, and I beat them every time,” Rieger says.

When the county denied Rieger a liquor license for a bar, he opened a strip club with a juice bar in 2003. When it served a stop order saying a commercial business could not operate in area zoned for agriculture, Rieger went to court and won.

And when 74 percent of the county’s voters passed an anti-nudity ordinance in June, Rieger found a loophole that exempted movie theaters. After a two-week hiatus, the club re-emerged as Racehorses Gentlemen’s Club and Adult Movie Theatre and has been operating ever since.

Now the county is drawing up a new ordinance that would require his dancers to wear pasties and G-strings. And a state senator plans to push for a similar state law.

“At this point, it’s harassment,” Rieger says. “They’re really picking on me.”

McCook County State’s Attorney Roger Gerlach says the proposed ordinance is not an attempt to put him out of business: “As long as they have some opaque clothing over the crucial parts of the human body, they can dance all they want.”

In the meantime, customers continue paying $10 cover—actually called an all-day movie ticket—to watch strippers dance. Patrons can sit next to the stage or get a private dance in a small room off to the side. They can also grab a stool at the juice bar and order a $3 soft drink or a $4 juice or power drink.

When Rieger retooled his business as a movie theater, he said he would feature independent, artsy R-rated films.

During a recent visit, though, hardcore fare was playing in the club’s 17-seat theater.

The 15-member Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography has organized protests outside the club and filmed patrons in the parking lot to discourage them from entering. Salem hair salon owner Maxine Pulse, the group’s co-founder, says she saw men drinking and urinating in the parking lot and dancers coming to the door nude.

“There’s a line between right and wrong,” Pulse says. “And it seems like anymore nowadays that line has got all jumbled up.”

After Rieger seized on a loophole in the law that allows nudity in such places movie theaters, health clubs and college art classes, Pulse’s group dropped its protests for fear of being hit with harassment charges.

Republican state Sen. Clarence Kooistra plans to take the fight to the next level and propose a state law that would Rieger’s dancers to cover up.

“We do not want the Salem area and McCook County to be known as Sin City, South Dakota,” he says.
 
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"...the club’s 17-seat theater.

The 15-member Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography ..."

That's the best part! :7
 
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I can't believe the furor these places cause. If i take 8 mile to work, i'll pass about 10 strip clubs on the way. If i'm watching where i'm going, i don't even notice. People are WAY too sensitive.
 
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The "Citizens Against Nude Juicebars ..." cracks me up! I wonder if they have a website! :7
 
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The "Citizens Against Nude Juicebars ..." cracks me up! I wonder if they have a website! :7
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Same here, I couldnt stop laughing.
 
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"And when 74 percent of the county’s voters passed an anti-nudity ordinance in June,"

Who is pushing their beliefs on who? Since when should a small minority of people have control of the majority. I dont have a problem with strip clubs and could care less if there is one in my city. The problem I have is that 74 percent of the people in that community dont want it there. Thats not just a few people ruining everybodies fun. Why not put the club in a community where it is welcome. I sure would be upset if I moved to a community where the overwhelming majority of the people had the same views as me, only to have people from the outside come in and push what they want on me. If our president can call 51 percent a mandate, then I would think 74 percent would be considered the word of g-d.

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
 
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"And when 74 percent of the county’s voters passed an anti-nudity ordinance in June,"[/div]After reading the story again, I may have to agree with this point, but for a reason different than morality.

My original memory had it just being a private club, where I still think anyone should have the right to do what they want, as long as it's not harming anybody or actually exposing them to something morally objectional, and not just the idea of it. But if it actually does attract lowlifes who urinate in the parking lot, etc., the majority might have a rightful say. But if that's their reasoning, why don't they also try closing down bars, where much of the same thing, (urinating in parking lots and likely worse, knowing drunks), happens? Personally, I find nudity, (especially when it's in a private club), MUCH less disgusting than drunks, who often end up in public...

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A person came in and started a business within the constraints of the law. The law changed to put him out of business, so he altered his business plan so he could continue to run within the constraints of the law. Trying to legislate him out of business is malicious and wrong.

If the community would relax and mind their own business, the strip club wouldn't be a problem. If people truly didn't want it there, it would close shortly from lack of business. If people urinating in the parking lot is the problem, ticket people for urinating in the parking lot, it's not like you need to outlaw strip clubs to be able to do that.

All this hullaballoo is probably doing nothing more than providing free advertising for the club. Business is probably up ten fold since this hit the news.
 
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A person came in and started a business within the constraints of the law. The law changed to put him out of business, so he altered his business plan so he could continue to run within the constraints of the law. Trying to legislate him out of business is malicious and wrong.
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That happened here in Citrus County, FL. Tampa strip club owner Joe Redner was to open an adult club, had all the permeits and licenses approved, and the county held an emergency session to enact laws that would basically put him out of business before he started. He sued the county and won a truckload of cash....
 
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