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Hey, Can I Get a Closer Look at That Permit?

Mon Dec 20,10:46 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters



SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Topless dancers in San Antonio will have a little more to wear after the city council on Friday ordered them to carry permits while performing.



The council, attempting to curb the number of clubs in the city, also banned nude dancing and "lap dancing" and ordered performers to keep a decent distance from patrons, drawing a vow from clubs to fight the restrictions in court.


"My constituents are tired of seeing these clubs drive down their property values," said city council member Chip Haas, who represents the northeast district where a number of the clubs opened in the past few years.


The rules, similar to regulations adopted in Houston and other U.S. cities, require dancers stay at least 3 feet from club patrons and wear the $50-permits while working. The driver's license-sized permits may be attached to dancers' G-strings, or to bracelets around their ankles.


Jim DeeGear, attorney for 12 of San Antonio's topless clubs, said he would seek to have the rules declared unconstitutional.


"It's easy to pick on these people because a lot of people say, 'well, we don't much care for the way they earn their living,'" DeeGear said.


City Attorney Andy Martin said similar rules have already withstood court challenge around the country.

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Board Game Lets Players Run Marijuana Farm

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The hot new Christmas gift in Canada this year is a board game that lets players run their own "B.C. Bud" marijuana farm.



Creators of "The Grow-Op Game" say the $39.95 "educational board game" highlights the perils of the marijuana business and cautions would-be growers.


"You get ratted on by neighbors, hydro cuts you off, you get floods, there are tons of stuff that is negative about it," said Vancouver-based creator Ivan Solomon Saturday.


Solomon said the Monopoly-style game is the brainchild of a young, 20-something reformed pot grower, known only as the "Rabbit," to conceal his identity. Solomon said Rabbit came up with the idea for the game while serving time in jail.


Rabbit and Solomon brought the game to market about four weeks ago.


Players roll the dice, move around the board, renting properties, buying lights and equipment, planting and harvesting crops. Moving in an opposite direction on the cylinder shaped board is the "GrowBuster." He lands on the unsuspecting player's property, rips out the plants and sends the player directly to jail.


"Out of six players, one might get lucky," Soloman said.


Cpl. Scott Rintoul, spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Drug Awareness Squad, expressed concern that the game does not illustrate the impact the drug trade can having on the victims of organized crime.


"It's not a game," he said.

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