(I posted most of this piece on another website, and while it's lame I kinda liked it so I thought maybe some of you folks might get a kick out of it too. If not, oh well.)
MGM
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I was reading a story in the local mostly shipping packing material newspaper, there was a dandy one in there.
It seems that a local police department, in their zeal to make sure that NOBODY ever gets to have sex for money, set up a neat little sting.
OK. So the cops are bored, besides, everybody likes hookers and they get to see lots of neat stuff on their hidden cameras.
Besides, it's FUN busting dumbasses, and usually pretty safe, too.
No problem at all getting volunteers for that duty, it seems, lots better than kicking in doors at drug houses with mean guys with guns inside.
Instead, they get to watch some silly idiot show up expecting a piece of ass, only to find instead that he has been selected to make a donation to the government revenue stream.
It works like this: Hairy officer Santo finds some cute hooker's pic online, posts it pretending to be her. Doing a barter deal of course so it sounds nice and legit, they offer some nookie in exchange for 420.
For those of you that don't know what "420" is by now, best go get a life.
Anyway, 420 being pot, that is illegal. There is always some dumb SOB that bites, jetting over there as fast as he can go, baggie in hand. They get one of the better looking lesbian cops to answer the door, grab the poor unsuspecting idiot.
Now they not only have a neat bust, revenue for the police department, but a nice stash to use at the next cop's only outdoor barbeque.
Setting up stings where fake hookers offer up sex for drugs is at best just barely borderline legal, part of why the cops agreed to drop that program.
I say it is a bit like teasing a Dog until it finally bites, then killing the Dog for biting.
Damn Dog. We KNEW it was a biter!
It's on the edge of entrapment, no better or worse than sticking a 4 block 25 mile per hour speed zone in the middle of a 35 MPH one, or the typical hiding the speed sign behind a bush.
Then we have the situation where the cop stands on the curb, watching you drive merrily down the street, sticking one leg out at the last moment to see if your brakes are in shape.
One would think that enforcement would actually have something better to do, the first 10 minutes of the evening news each night suggests that they should not be bored.
Temptation. Dangle the bait, bounce it up and down, this is how a fisherman gets a Bass to come out from under a dock. Poor damn Bass resting under the damned dock minding it's own damned business and you FEED it something...with a damned HOOK in it?
You BASTARD!
Then from the number of cops we see busted on a regular basis for one thing or another, and having known more than my fair share of so-called "policemen" that I would not want in my house for any reason under any circumstances I think I see the mindset.
Sex for drugs or any illegal item is illegal, of course. Sex in exchange for any LEGAL item is illegal, so you women that refuse to give it up except in exchange for...marriage....Uhhh...??
OHOH!
Good lord. Why, THIS means that some of you women are NOT just housewives...you are HOOKERS!
Taking any item, legal or otherwise in exchange for sex is ILLEGAL!! That marriage license is...a legal item.
Only one thing to do. The marriage license must be a GIFT! Or we could all just start out having sex right off the bat, that way the marriage license doesn't enter into it.
Hey, you don't want a HOOKER for a wife, do you?
JOHN: "Drop your undies, Martha."