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- Poco, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47You gotta love the US legal system. Clearly there are too many police if they have time to waste on this. There weren't enough real criminals?
- darkdaedra, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42They had already filled their non-violent drug offender quota for the day.
- penguinhunter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41Find my house, buy my couch, sell my car, and find me some poontang......You gotta love craigslist
- LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -8/+46Oh, just great. How the hell is it that YOU get the coveted second post. I have been trying to achieve that for months now! I'm so jealous.
/sarcasm - kevsedg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37I concur... drugs and prostitution should be legalised in any civilised country...
Disclaimer for anyone googling my name in the future when I apply for a job: I partake in none of these activites, all I see is the overwhelming logic behind these arguments. - expatdiver, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37Truely sad.
Don't our cops have better things to do then stop women and men from simply trading things that each has but the other wants. - jessecrouch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+35well isnt this AWESOME. way to go police wasting time propagating the enforcement of victimless crime:
1.consensual sex between adults
2.recreational drug posession or usage
and through craigslist! i hope this sets an example for all law enforcement agencies to follow. maybe the IRS can start logging everything that happens in the "for sale" section and they can start auditing us all for those $20 couches we sell. hell i'm actually surprised the IRS didn't get to these prostitutes and drug dealers before the state police did.
hey too bad sodomy is legal now.. they could just demand that they get to monitor the emails of everything that goes through the personals section and monitor ALL consensual sexual activity! that would definitely improve the lives of americans; too bad those liberal hippie judges decided that it was an "unconstitutional invasion of privacy". what a bunch of *****.. invasion of privacy. i'll tell you what's an invasion of privacy: when i have to know that people are out there suckin on *****! that's just absolutely terrible... we all know that no hard-working, middle-class, upstanding american citizen would ever dream of engaging in such activities. - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Fighting a War on Drugs and Prostitution is like fighting a War on Eating and Breathing.
- theoallardyce, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Its amazing, prostitution, like drugs is something that we have all been brought up to accept as inherently "illegal" things. Dont get me wrong, I can see that any drug abuse is a bad thing that can ruin someones life and the most potent drugs out there make it very easy to ruin your life. Drugs are bad, its simple, dont get started on them and you will save yourself a load of hassle (although the same can be said about all inclusive phone contracts), most of them are overrated anyway. The same goes with prostitution, paying for sex has gotta be pretty degrading to start with. ***** some dirty hoe thats probably had about 30 different guys in her in the last month alone is not my idea of a good time and most prostitutes look like total ***** ***** to be honest.
However its not that we have been brought up to think of these things as wrong - that I have no problem with, we have been brought up to accept that drugs and prostitution is illegal. There really is no logic behind it but if you try and argue with someone who has been brought up this way its very hard to convince them, because the fact is they are biased to the point of retardation, even though every argument you can give them is comprehensive they just cannot get rid of this feeling inside that these things should be banned.
Its part of a wider belief that everything that is bad should be banned by law - that might sound perfectly logical. Murder is bad, its banned, stealing is bad, its banned. But people fail to understand the difference between societal problems and criminal problems. They dont appreciate the concept of separating morality from criminality. They dont stop to think about what the government can do with the powers it has. These people are so mentally ***** retarded that they really should not be allowed to vote: however, that would be a morality enforcement which would be wrong, so of course they absolutely must be allowed to vote. Where the problem lies is education, if the voters are *****-wits then the country will be *****-witted its as simple as that.
I think you can equate running a democracy to running a nuclear power plant by a vote system. The people around your power plant might vote to vent valve 3X at pressure junction 8 but if the people around your power plant have absolutely no idea about nuclear power and valve 3X then they are ultimately going to make a choice based on some retards emotional rambling about the fallacy of safety valves on floor 3 and these voters are going to end up blowing the ***** place to kingdom come. - derning, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Note to self:
1) Stay the heck away from Bucks County.
2) Change my picture on CraigsList.
- threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20It's been a shame for an awful long time. Given that prostitution has been around as long as recorded history...
- kristov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20That was a close one - we saved some poor soul from having sex.
Im sure only 1 person had to die due to a mugging or armed robbery while all those resources were hunting down the scum of our society. - iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23"Second post."
Second place is just the first loser... - Poco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Technically prostitution is not legal in Vegas. There are some legal brothels in Nevada, but not within the city itself.
- JorgeGT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18yeah, men just steal TVs or sell drugs...much more dignifying activities :-D
- zeeone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Regarding prostitution George Carlin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin ) said it best: "***** is legal. Selling is legal. Why is selling ***** not legal? It doesn't make sense!!!"
- Mome, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20I've ***** five whores. It's cost me $1000 all up. Half of that went to a single high priced whore, though. I don't regret what I did, but if I had to do it again, I'd only pay $400.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21http://www.google.com
This has been your totally unhelpful post of the day. :) - rockefeller, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I think you mean...
Fighting a War on Drugs and Prostitution is like fighting a War on Terror. - Yashu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Prostitution should be legal in the US. I don't see why it isn't.
- olegk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Who cares about the design, it's the functionality.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Name one thing wrong with the design of Craigslist. It's fast and it does exactly what it is meant to do. What the hell would it need a bunch of eye candy for?
- iconnor, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18I agree, legalize it so we can tax and regulate it. It would also take a large chunk of money away from criminal gangs and terrorists. It will then allow the police to focus on real crimes. We will never win the war on drugs or prostitution. We could treat the drug problem as a mental health issue and prostitution as the inability for certain people to find meaningful relationships.
If you are happy with your life and well adjusted, there is no drug or prostitution problem to police.
I have asked an undercover cop I know and surprisingly they don't disagree with this. Having said that, it is not the police's fault there are bad laws to enforce. They are just using technology to go after criminals and good on them! - Chordonblue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12All relationships are transactional when you boil things down. What's the fine line between marriage and prostitution again? Oh, right - a license.
- zouden, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That's interesting.
What does more money get you? Better-looking girls, or more talented, or what?
If you wouldn't pay more than $400 again, what's the cheapest you'd pay? Or is $400 the 'sweet spot'?
Not that I'm interested, I'm just curious. - fogster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@billy: But we don't have universal health care in the US, so all that means is that prostitutes would have to pay more for their health insurance... Which isn't a very good reason to outlaw prostitution.
- mxcl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10But would it do those things if it was legalised? I don't know I'm genuinely interested.
Here in Britain prostitution is legal (even thoughg many people don't know that), so I'd be interested to here some statistics. - gDubz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Shouldn't be.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Prostitution is legal in Nevada in counties with population under 200,000 as long as there is no local law against it.
- Neumahn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This is hysterical, "they got a tip!"
Another waste of our tax money arresting people for victimless crimes that are just going to continue as soon as they post bail. I am sure glad that we have such a strong Puritan streak in this country to protect me from these harlots! - Poco, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13But someone might think that a GFE is a Green Foot Exfoliator that they want to exchange for flowers. Then they would be really embarrassed... so the cops are protecting the public from accidental embarrassment?
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's legal in Germany and Las Vegas. I think in a few other countries as well. When legalized, there is a reduction in crime and disease.
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yes, but they shoot back. Much too dangerous.
- darkstar949, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@vagabond0101 - But isn't creating initiatives like that the same as forcing morality on people? If it's not a crime, and it's not hurting anyone then why make it against the law except because you don't think people should be allowed to do it.
Case and point - if a woman choices to become a prostitute (for the sake of argument lets say we are in Amsterdam where it is a career choice, and she is not being forced into it because she is a junkie) then who are you to say that she can't do it - if you don't want what she is sell then you don't have to give her any money. Also, most red-light distracts tend to be fairly well known - if you don't want to see that part of the city then don't go there. - Bullsnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They also had "extra parts"
- transfire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8There are lots of people very concerned with the "moral fiber" of the nation. That's fine and even a fair thing. But they do not understand that morality cannot be forced nor do they understand the it's root causes.
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wake up call - guys! At least over here in the U.S. you ALWAYS pay for sex one way or the other. Most of the chicks over here consider sex as a 'trade in' for services or goods rendered. I remember some poll from a few years ago which put 'shopping for shoes' as the number 1 activity for American women and sex somewhere around number 6 or 7. Makes you think... as a young guy I always used to think that sex was the number 1 activity for both, men and women. It's a bit different over in Europe - girls seem to be more on par with the guys - there's also more of a sense of romance.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Technically prostitution is legal in Rhode Island, as long as you're not walking the streets, don't have a pimp, etc.
- yonas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5cops are good for nothing. There's so much more that needs to be focused on than prostitution. Hell, it shouldn't even be against the law. This country is so damn behind.
- econoar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12The prostitutes were probably taken in by Craiglist's great web design...they couldn't resist!
- yoda133113, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But would it be like that if it were legal, it isn't like that in other countries where it is legal. The exchange of money of a perfectly legal act should not make that act illegal, not to mention that in a free country (which we in the USA say we are) what two consenting adults do with their OWN body is entirely up to them. That said prostitution is disgusting, but should still be legalized.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's a hell of a lot easier for cops to go on CL and set up a "sting" operation than it is to get out there and do hardcore police work. Why spend time clearing up the backlog of robberies, burglaries, assaults, rapes and other crimes when you can answer a couple Craigslist ads and wait at a motel for the "criminals?"
- BleedingHollow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6STOP! who's the ***** that couldn't get laid and had to snitch on these girls? Damn you!
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Fighting a War on Drugs and Prostitution is like fighting a War on Eating and Breathing."
Simple quote but the more I thought about this the more I realized how it puts this whole debacle into prospective. Good one, brstilson! - JohnboiWaltune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Craigslist is designed to use the minimum bandwidth possible to deliver its content, that's all.
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Similar sting operations have led to prostitution charges against women in states including Maryland, New York, Oregon and New Hampshire. "
Looks like you need to stay away from Maryland, New York, Oregon, and New Hampshire too. - mcnasby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I saw this article in the Bucks County Courier Times yesterday. I live in Bensalem, the next town over. Like everyone who visits CraigsList, I browse the "Casual Encounters" section from time to time - ya know, for a good laugh. I just couldn't believe the Levittown police force had enough brains to setup this kind of sting.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"I'm sure that the first thing a prospective employer would do is to find this post on digg.com, hunt down your name on google and then deny your employment because of your post."
Oh, how fun it is to be young and naive. If only you'd heard some of the horror stories I've heard in my line of work (HR), you'd be singing a different tune. - kevsedg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5My friend who works with sex workers here in Britain tells me that yes, prostitution is not illegal, but soliciting is not, and there is no regulation.
- emildew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"If your sister "chooses" prostitution as a career, would u accept and respect her choice? Obviously no. Prostitution is obviously evil. As responsible, righteous human beings we should strive to wipe it out."
You are talking about a job that not many people would like to have, and then trying to argue that not wanting one's sister to do it means it's evil? I wouldn't want my sister to be a fry cook either, but that's because she's smarter than that and can make better money doing what she does. That doesn't make being a fry cook evil.
In fact, I wouldn't want her to work in a rendering plant, either. That's disgusting and horrifying. That doesn't make rendering cattle into meat evil, either.
Your logic fails, dude. -
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