When my colleague Laura Vozzella last left this issue, the strip club on wheels was rolling out of town. But I guess the Hustler Club couldn't pass up the Preakness (who can blame them given the "Get Your Preak On" promotion.
But now, as then, it has plent of detractors, namely parents with children who saw things on a public street that they shouldn't see until they can legally drink beer and gawk at naked women. I mean, what parents wants to explain the term "pole dancing" to a 5-year-old?
Last month, Vozzella noted that cops gave the driver two tickets -- for having unsecured passengers and for blocking traffic. But other that, apprently no laws were broken. Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Vozzella:
The stripper-mobile might be perfectly legal, he said, but it's certainly not an ideal addition to the family-friendly town. "Things like this are expected in Las Vegas," he said. "In Baltimore, this is a family town. We have the Inner Harbor. We have the Orioles. Businesses need to use a little more common sense."
Anne Manning de Dios of Alexendria, Va., couldn't agree more. She wrote us an e-mail this morning and sent us picture -- one is published here -- upon seeing the stripper-mobile while returing from a play on Preakness Saturday:
"Perhaps I wouldn't have been so furious had my children not been in the car. I was shaking with anger. There was no way to ignore what was being thrown in our faces. There was no way to ignore the girls' moves or the men's reactions. There is no doubt this event will be forever-ingrained in my daughters' and son's heads. I didn't ask for it."
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