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A couple of 18-year-olds ran up a $2460 USD bill at an Albuquerque strip club. Little did these boys know, $30/dance actually means $30/song:

The two teens kicked off the night by sitting near the stage as the dancers “danced.” Then Everett and Wakji were invited by dancers Orchard and Carmela to adjourn to the VIP Room for private lap dances. By the time the strip club closed at 2 a.m., Everett and Wakji had, according to the club manager, been the recipients of 82 lap dances - 41 each.

Now… that’s a lot of lap dances. You would have thought that the dancers or the manager would have been a little suspicious of the two boys. Hell, shop clerks tend to get nervous of me when I’m walking through an expensive store because I have such a baby face! If I was a dancer at the club I would have asked if he wanted another dance after the song finished in order to make it clear that for every new song the customer is paying for a new dance.

In fact, Zod had this problem the other night at Club Downtown where he bought a private lesbian show. Since the girls started their show in the middle of a song and then didn’t say anything when the second song started (I guess their tongues were a little busy) he just figured that he would be paying the $30 for the song and a half since he didn’t get his money’s worth by them starting early. He was wrong. After the second song, he was charged $60.

Perhaps it’s sly moves like this that help give strip clubs a dodgy reputation.

Well, it turns out the two boys were charged… and later released:

“We decided to close the case because both were young men and both said they’d never been in a place like that,” said Hanes, of the DA’s office. “They said they didn’t understand the rules, that each dance costs $30 or whatever, and that a new dance started when a song started.

“We just didn’t see any criminal intent. I mean, you wouldn’t think anyone would sit through 41 lap dances and run up a $2,460 tab on purpose with the intent of not paying. If nothing else, you think you’d be afraid of the bouncers.”

Oh great… I now foresee a whole slew of 18-year-olds doing the same. Strip club managers and bouncers had better be on the lookout for young men looking for (pardon the pun) free rides…

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