Adult Entertainment Hit Hard by Gas Prices

[Chris_]

Adult Entertainment Hit Hard by Gas Prices

JACKSONVILLE, FL-- The rising prices of gas, food and travel are having a major effect on the entertainment industry on the First Coast.

The typical lunch crowd at Sinsations has dwindled to just two guys and a couple of sandwiches. It's the same story at gentlemen's clubs all across the First Coast. "People just don't have the money to go out, they don't have the money to buy a drink, they certainly don't have the money to spend on an entertainer," said the manager of Emperor's Gentlemen's Club Joe Serafini. Serafini says he has been forced to lay off staff, reduce prices and limit hours to turn a profit. Managers at Sinsations say their income has dropped by roughly 35% in recent months.

"I have to go to other places to try to make the money," said an exotic dancer known as Storm.

"I've gone from about a grand a week, down to a couple hundred," Storm added.


The poor strippers.  Won't somebody think of the strippers?

[Chris_]

But wait!  There is good news, friends! 

Bars & Breweries: Beer Is Recession-Proof

Stocking and restocking the beer aisle: it's a story that plays all Memorial Day weekend at the Kroger on Caroline Street in Atlanta.

Chris Kunze says he'll pinch pennies on groceries but not on beer. "Definitely not," he said. "Taste is different."

It's the same story at Manuel's Tavern in Virginia Highlands. Patrick Puglisi takes MARTA. He doesn't pay gas money, but he doesn't baulk at paying beer money. "You just relax and you don't have to think about the gas prices and the problems with the economy," he said.

[Chris_]

These young boys had the right idea to make money!  Or maybe not.  

Woman gets mad, then even over theft

When Pauline Goldmeier pulled up to her Seward Park home last week and saw a group of teens making off with her $500 mountain bike, something snapped.

So last week, when she saw her bike being ridden away from her house, she turned her car around and took off after the teens, yelling, chasing them through the streets and, once they'd scattered, staying on the tail of the kid with the bike.

"He was laughing at me," she said, "but I floored it and literally cut him off a few feet from his face. He stopped laughing then and jumped off the bike."

When Goldmeier and her husband returned home with her bike, they were able to show police a video surveillance tape taken by the home security cameras they installed last year — after a series of car prowls — that led to the arrest of three of the five suspects.

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I seriously doubt that it's gas prices.  there must be something up in jacksonville

[Chris_]

Secret pirate treasure?  Gold?  What's in the safe?!

Locksmith in Longview cracks safe that baffled feds, MIT

A locksmith has managed to open a 159-year-old safe that baffled other professional safecrackers and an expert from MIT.

In 2 ½ hours this week, Lock Doc proprietor Tom Gorham got the safe open by spinning the dial and feeling for grooves to get the combination, a technique called manipulation.

The 1-ton safe was forgotten for decades until it was discovered at Hanthorn Cannery on the waterfront in Astoria, Ore., and owner Floyd Holcomb wanted it opened without being damaged.