Suburban Prostitutes

Law enforcement authorities a few towns north of me have broken up a prostitution ring. According to the local rag, the Journal News, police became suspicious and set up a sting that nabbed a couple of the working girls, some clientele, and the 33 year old entrepreneur pimp ringleader. There is an element of hypocrisy to this small suburban tale, and it has nothing to do with how you might feel about the legality of selling sex or the wisdom of police devoting so many resources to chasing hookers when they should be giving you a ticket for failing to signal a left turn. One sentence from the article made me laugh:

The investigation began this month when police became suspicious of ads in periodicals and newspapers that offered the exotic body massages.

The newspaper that the guy advertised in, and the publication that still runs ads for prostitutes, is none other than our local paper which is reporting the whole thing, the Journal News. Interesting that they left that out, no?

Comments

[Dave]

When did the Journal News become a newspaper?!