As a Strip Club Customer, Have You Ever Been Mistaken as a Cop?
Club_Goer_Seattle
Seattle, Washington
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 10:12 AM
What do you do once you're labeled? Stay and give them a miserable time? Or, just suck it up, cut your losses, and leave?
I'm much older than most strip club patrons, and that may be part of the reason why I've been mistaken for a cop a few times. And, I always go to strip clubs alone. I don't know if there's something about my demeanor that has contributed to this.
There's a difference in the experience as to whether just one dancer thinks you're a cop, or if the whole club is being told you're a cop.
I've heard it said that one way undercover cops tip themselves off is that they ask a lot of questions about the services offered. Inexperienced cops may do that, or cops that are simply trying entice a dancer into something illegal for a quick bust. It could be an overanxious cop just wanting to gather information, and quickly take action. On none of my occasions did I do this.
Three times I've been accused of being a cop and it definitely diminished my enjoyment at that club each time. The first time, just one dancer though I was a cop. I think I talked her into believing I wasn't, but it still ruined the time with her. I only got one dance from her, but stayed and got dances with others in the club. At the time, I wasn't yet a regular at that club. I don't think she spread the word to any other dancers of her suspicion about me.
This time it was near-humiliating: At a different club, a manager seemed to think I was a cop, and he managed to signal the dancer I was talking with that I was a cop. This really made me feel uncomfortable about staying in the club, because the dancer told me that the manager said that I was a cop. I figured that he was somehow telling everyone else in the club the same. The dancer said she was perfectly happy to give me a dance—cop or no cop. She wasn't afraid. So, we continued, and I got just one dance again.
After the one dance, I couldn't immediately decide whether or not to stay any longer. I could stay, and “return the favor†to the club. This would be to simply wear out their furniture for a while and hopefully cause some lost income. I know the action really slows down in a strip club when word gets around that cops are in the building. Also, I could just cut my losses, and tactfully leave. I chose a combination of the two. I wasn't interested in any of the other girls there anyway, but I stayed for another half hour.
That club was well out of my usual path, so I knew I'd never be back there again. However, about six months later, I ran into that same dancer at another club, about 40 miles away, and she remembered me, and about the manager singling me out as a cop. We both laughed about it. I got some dances from her anyway.
The third occasion was still different (and at still a different club from any of the above). When I see a dancer in a club that I'm hoping will come over to me and ask for a dance, and if she takes too long, I will sometimes take the initiative and approach her. (I've been told often that dancers usually love it when a customer asks them for dances.) On this occasion, I did that, and because I approached her, she thought (for just a little while) that I was a cop. I got several dances with her that night. (I've been told by dancers, that cops often get two dances with a dancer to try to make their determination. I got a lot more than just two with that dancer.) This time, that dancer went on to become a favorite, and even did some OTC with her. I also later learned that among her strip club violations, one was nasty enough to have been determined to be prostitution, among the various dance violations the time she was busted for on that one occasion. So, it's no wonder that she was apprehensive about me at first.
Of the hundreds of times I've been to strip clubs, perhaps only three instances of being accused of being a cop isn't too many. Have any of you been erroneously pegged as a cop in a strip club? If so, how did you handle it?
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