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Brickbat: Say Cheese

Charles Oliver | 3.24.2014 6:00 AM

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Ten San Diego police officers wearing bullet proof vests swarmed Cheetahs strip club. They weren't looking for armed robbers or searching for drugs. No, they were there for a card check, to make sure the strippers at the club were properly licensed. They also took photos of the women, lots of photos. 

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  1. Pompey   11 years ago

    Pictured stripper is getting ready to go rustle some cattle. Question is will she need to borrow a larger fitted 10-gallon hat for her disproportionately large noggin'?

  2. Byte Me   11 years ago

    Ten San Diego police officers wearing bullet proof vests swarmed Cheetahs strip club...they were there for a card check...They also took photos of the women, lots of photos.

    Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

  3. Snark Plissken   11 years ago

    The mood at the strip club in Kearny Mesa quickly turned intense Thursday night when 10 officers swarmed the building with guns and bulletproof vests, interrupting business for a couple of hours.

    Is there any situation where the cops *don't* go full-on commando these days? Shutting down children's lemonade stands? Confiscating expired Girl Scout cookies?

  4. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

    "I didn't know if it was a bank robbery or serial killer on the loose the way they had come in like that," said manager Rich Buonantony.

    Um, both?

    1. Ted S.   11 years ago

      It was the cops saying "Fuck you, that's why".

  5. RishJoMo   11 years ago

    Now there is a dude that knows what time it is. Wow.

    http://www.anonblitz.tk

  6. mr lizard   11 years ago

    "No, they were there for a card check,"....

    I read that and seriously thought it was an AFL CIO enforcement thing.... Union strippers?

    *shudders*

  7. Ted S.   11 years ago

    Oh, and the story is only 16 days old. Charles Oliver is getting closer to the present. 🙂

  8. JW   11 years ago

    There's no sex in the S.W.A.T. room.

    Not much of anything, really, except for the faint sound of heavily armored sobbing, when they're left alone with the crushing burden their failed hopes and dreams.

    1. invisible furry hand   11 years ago

      that is their sex

  9. Agile Cyborg   11 years ago

    "Buonantony says he is happy to work with police but hopes they are more subtle about it next time and respect the dancers."

    This is your problem, bub. You being 'happy' to work with the police is a guarantor of exactly zero in terms of these gangster-wannabes actually respecting your openness and transparency.

    Fact is, the long arm of puritanism has designed law enforcement to disregard common courtesy because 'sin' doesn't deserve that designation. Treating strippers like second-class citizens is ingrained into the culture of a heaven-bound or male-critical society. They make men happy therefore the religious retard and the sex-loathing feminist cunt will make sure this doesn't occur without whiplash.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder   11 years ago

    That Cheetahs is about half a mile from where I used to work in the 90s. Never could bring myself to do the free cheeseburger lunch special.

    Oh, and San Diego cops suck.

  11. sarcasmic   11 years ago

    Officer safety! I mean, some of those strip clubs are downright chilly, turning those nipples into weapons!

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