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Porn Peddlers First, Old People Next?

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The tough talkin politicians of Clark County are taking aim at one of the core groups that slow down people movement on the Las Vegas Strip – porn peddlers aka porn slappers aka card snappers.

“You can’t restrict those you don’t like and allow those you do, even in a town that sometimes thinks that the Constitution only applies to certain industries,” he (Allen Lichtenstein, general counsel for the ACLU of Nevada) said. “We’re not talking about passing out handbills in front of your home. We’re talking about the Las Vegas Strip — you know, Sin City … ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.’ Not my words, the government’s words.”

I don’t know anybody that likes these dudes trying to push hookers and strip clubs on them while walking up or down the strip.  They must prove fruitful for someone because they are still there.

I grew up in New York City and have learned how to easily avoid people in my way.  However, on my last trip to Vegas I was slowed by an inundation of these guys while walking the strip.  I was also slowed by old people, tourists and kids.  If Clark County can get rid of all four of those groups it would be much easier to navigate the strip.

Photo: Las Vegas Sun

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  1. Paul
    May 7, 2010,

    Yay! Get rid of them. Not only do they impede traffic, but they create litter and expose a bunch of kids to filth.

    I’m all for getting the moving billboards off the Strip too, the trucks that drive around with adult ads. A vehicle designed to increase traffic? Give me a break.

    And it’s not that I’m against adult services in Vegas. Quite the contrary, I usually partake when I’m there. But anyone who knows anything about the Vegas “sensual” scene knows that the porn slappers are only advertise rip-off girls. The girls pictured on those cards are CERTAINLY not the girls who show up to your room.

    So I’m against these porn slappers on “false advertising” grounds as well.

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