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twitterClubs want to be ‘good citizen,’ so stripper-mobile ends its run
Leila Navidi
“Kay,” a dancer from Deja Vu Showgirls, does some pole dancing moves while inside a truck to advertise the Deja Vu Showgirls and Little Darlings clubs on the Las Vegas Strip late in the evening Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.
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The stripper-mobile won’t be the talk of the town — or the nation — much longer.
Las Vegas attorney Jay Brown, who represents Little Darlings and Déjà Vu strip clubs, said the controversial Strip run of the U-Haul-like truck outfitted with Plexiglas walls to showcase clothed strippers is over.
“My client has authorized me to make it clear that due to concerns of County Commissioners Chris Giunchigliani and Steve Sisolak, and because my client wants to be a good citizen, effective immediately that truck is offline,” Brown said Friday afternoon.
The brainchild of Larry Beard, Déjà Vu’s marketing director, the stripper-mobile made national headlines and drew reactions ranging from disgust to high praise for the creativity of the marketing concept and its suitability to Las Vegas.
The county commission was scheduled to discuss the stripper-mobile Tuesday. Sisolak and Giunchigliani figured they might be able to shut it down on legal and safety grounds.
The women inside the truck twirled around a gleaming silver pole affixed to the middle of the cargo area and used a loudspeaker to urge spectators to come see them do their full routines at the strip clubs.
Beard said that in the truck’s short run, it had almost doubled business for Déjà Vu and Little Darlings.
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Very, very clever marketing idea. Glad to see it worked for them...and they were smart enough to take their gains and walk away in a classy way.
Leaves them room to do some more innovative ideas in the future.
would have ruined the show if they were wearing seat belts!
This shows that we have a higher class of County Commissioner these days. In the old days, the only objection some Commissioners would have had was that the girls weren't available for lap dances while they were out in the truck!
FREEDOM OF SPEACH
Come on people. Look at the picture. How can you think this is not a distraction for drivers?
I agree with the commissioner. Go to a strip club, have a good time. Just not in the middle of traffic on Las Vegas Blv.
One of the reasons against the dancers was no seat belts. If that is to be enforced, all of the individuals riding in the back of pickup trucks should be charged also. The other is safety. It might cause accidents. I see no difference in this truck and the mobile billboards, flashing signs and all of the other distractions on the strip. Sisolak is wrong on that argument. If some one is driving fast enough to run off the road, on to the sidewak and hit a lot of pedestrians, they are speeding.
Setting aside the legitimate safety concerns, of which there were quite a few, the fact that these commissioners were merely using those arguments as a means to force their morals on the rest of us means I will never vote for them if they ever run for an office representing me.
There's plenty of freedom of speech inside the clubs. That's what the clubs are for. Because the rest of us have rights too and we don't want to see that nonsense out on public roads--safety issues aside.
The sex industry keeps attempting to push the boundaries. They've already succeeded in plastering the town with billboards. It's pathetic. Some of you talk about having morals forced upon you... Well, I don't want your perversions forced upon me. If you want to see a stripper then take yourself to a club. Easy enough??
It's nice to see this no-brainer resolved by having the stripper-mobile removed from the road.
This is classic. I don't know if it is clever photography or blind luck, but look at the picture. "Outside" of the ho-van (I mean girls doing it to pay for college), there is a fifty or so foot tall woman with her nearly bare ass also distracting all the drivers on the strip. She has much less on than the strippers. I am going to give the photographer the benefit of the doubt, and say great work with the camera.
Well,
If you really want to live in a
TOILET BOWL,
have fun...
Giunchigliani and Sisolak made the right move.
($5 buck$ says the Deja Vu Club will only be able to pimp this for just a few weeks, anyway....)
It doesn't bother me to have these vans on the roads. At least people are paying attention to what's going on outside of their vehicles instead of all the people dialing and texting on their cell phones.
And if it is a safety issue, have everyone riding the city buses sit down and fasten their safety belts. What do you mean, what safety belts?
To me, a scantly clad young lady or young man, if you are so inclined, is not a perversion. And to irritate DocRebel a little more. I don't consider nudity a perversion either.
And, what I consider is a perversion is when you try to pervert my mind with your ideological ideas. Now, that's pathetic..
Maybe we should make women wear long robes that cover up every inch of their skin and stone them if they don't...
great picture!! thats the kind of stuff that makes people come to sin city. thats what made america great in the first place; provide a market that people want and they will come running.( no pun intended )
Everything has it's limits and this seemed to have pushed beyond them.
I'm gonna miss the stripper mobile.
You are in Las Vegas people, not Vatican City. It appears Las Vegas will die before the socialist regime ends. I am so tired of the government running our lives. Let free enterprise work, if the people do not like the van, they will not support the club. If you do not want to see something like girls dressed in scantily clad clothes dancing on a pole you shouldn't be on the Vegas strip!
Dr_Scott is right. This is Las Vegas people.. We arent in the bible belt here. To me its not about the stripper mobile. Its about Las Vegas being, well Las Vegas. If you dont like it, then you shouldnt have moved here. Go back to where you came from and push your own personal agenda there. Get off your high horses already.
I'm sad to see free speech squashed like this, but Deja Vu & Little Darlings did the classy thing here and at least helped us avoid any more pointless "vice & virtue" lectures from the County Commission. And Seriously is right, this isn't Utah, so let's stop trying to be "Utah lite".
All the money that Nevada and Las Vegas spends on advertising did not get Las Vegas the national attention that this "stripper mobile" got.
FOX News ran coverage of the "stripper mobile" complete with film numerous times yesterday.
Some will say that this is the wrong kind of attention that they want. Tell that to all of those hotel workers waiting in line for their unemployment checks...
the "stripper mobile" made the las vegas chamber of commerce look like a bunch of incompetent hacks.
Hey UCSB, so the current County Commissioners are an improvement to what we had in the past, right? You must be from out of town...
If this was a major issue, you'd have seen Metro writing tickets for seat-belt and other safety violations every time the wheels rolled on the "Flesh Tank".
So apparently there must have been some tacit clearance since I don't believe humans are allowed to travel on any road receiving federal funds without being subjected to draconian laws.
Steve who lacks sizzle came up with a bunch of lame arguments to strip the folks on the strip of a little fun. The clubs are far classier than sizzle-less folks. Give me back the old time Vegas!
Well aint this a bitch,, now i dont have my driving job anymore....Wonder if the commisioners will find something wrong with my new job....Driving the girls to their corners on the strip.......Say it aint so.........................
The look on that guys face is priceless!
Just look how much publicity that the Strip clubs got from all the news of this. It was money well spent for them. Now they have to lend that mobile to Oscar Goodman, so he can get people downtown.