LafayetteLady
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What would be interesting is to know how the zoning officer even found out about the parties? I can name a dozen different examples of people running a sex-business in a residential zone who have run afoul of the law. In the majority of cases it is discovered when the 50 cars parked out front wind up blocking the neighbors driveway and the neighbors call in a complaint. And if its at all like the other examples I know of, the guy will try every trick in the book except just getting the damn permit. Like they did at Whipstock when the event started bringing in +100 people and the event orgnizers claimed they were not running a bdsm event but rather hosting a charity fundraiser picknic. Or the swing club that was local to where I live claiming they wernt a swing club but rather a 'nature worship' church that had sexuality as one of their sacrements. Or when Dressing for Pleasure got busted for having more people in the building than what their occupancy permit allowed, they tried to claim they were not a bdsm dungeon but were an improvesational theater troupe. Or my personal favorite, the MissAnn case in indiana where when the neighbors complained of strange cars showing up and leaving at odd hours and phoned in a tip that they thought their neighbor was running a drug house, the cops show up to discover a profesional dominatrix at work and she claims she isnt actualy a profesional dominatrix but is running a museum showcasing colinioal era torture devices. I seriously doubt this is the local 'sex hating prude' politicians harassing a place for no reason. If this actualy was a targeted atack by a bunch of bible thumping victorian minded neocons, I would suspect that the dozen or so other bdsm clubs in the area would have been targeted as well. The fact that none of the other clubs are experencing any ~crackdown~ gives me the feeling that this actualy IS a zoning violation and not a 'we hate sex' political crackdown. Good point by the way about 'college parties' taking donations to cover a keg. Those things get noise complains from the neighbors all the time. And if they do it on a regularly occurring basis, they DO get cited for zoning violations. However, when that happens you never have the party organizers crying that the minority group they belong to is being oppressed and harassed by an iron fistted police state. So those zoning violations never make the news. I agree totally. The reason I wondered about how they found out is because the article didn't really lead you to believe that there was a noise or parking complaint from the neighbors that brought them out to see what was going on. I'm sure if everyone was arriving in "play" attire, it might annoy the neighbors as well. It does seem as though every time anything comes up where there are citations or arrests, everyone wnat to jump on the whole "puritanical society" bandwagon and start screaming prejudice, closed mindedness and the like. It's very easy to always have that kind of paranoid attitude rather than think that maybe the guy simply violated a zoning law or annoyed his neighbors with noise and parking bringing attention to himself. Which by the way, whether it was a BDSM event or just a summer BBQ, you still need to be considerate of your neighbors.
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