Cameras?
happylap
Michigan
Do you ever worry about cameras in strip clubs?
I see a lot of surveillance cameras in strip clubs these days and it seems like it would be very easy for someone to do mischief with the images from those cameras. Obviously, it would not be in the interest of strip clubs' owners to put any images of their customers on the internet. But what about their employees, especially in the more seedy places? I saw three surveillance cameras in a “lingerie bar†the other day—not a place one would describe as “upscaleâ€. And I've also seen cameras in seedy places out in the sticks in Wisconsin. A few places have surveillance cameras in the private dance areas. I can sort of see why management might want to keep tabs on what the dancers are doing, but I find it creepy.
Is this something we should worry about? Is there anything we can do about it to protect ourselves? As someone pointed out in another post, the threat of a lawsuit is worth nothing. Once your image is on the net you're screwed.
I see a lot of surveillance cameras in strip clubs these days and it seems like it would be very easy for someone to do mischief with the images from those cameras. Obviously, it would not be in the interest of strip clubs' owners to put any images of their customers on the internet. But what about their employees, especially in the more seedy places? I saw three surveillance cameras in a “lingerie bar†the other day—not a place one would describe as “upscaleâ€. And I've also seen cameras in seedy places out in the sticks in Wisconsin. A few places have surveillance cameras in the private dance areas. I can sort of see why management might want to keep tabs on what the dancers are doing, but I find it creepy.
Is this something we should worry about? Is there anything we can do about it to protect ourselves? As someone pointed out in another post, the threat of a lawsuit is worth nothing. Once your image is on the net you're screwed.
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That's good advice but I don't think it helps much. Even if I wasn't doing anything illegal, I'd be embarrased and in deep shit if something appeared on the web showing me in a strip club.
Just an example. Many of us are in similar circumstances. I used to work for a state office, in a publishing house that was associated with a set of major land-grant institutions. Though the higher-ups on the "Board" weren't heavy-handed about it, once a year they made it clear that if we employees did anything at all "to embarrass" them, they'd have our heads. We were expected to stay on the straight and narrow inside and outside work. In fact, one of the major reasons I couldn't keep that job was that I was frowned upon for having consistently "failed" to regularly attend a house of worship. Every Sunday morning, someone from my (government run, state taxpayer supported) workplace came by my house to see what I was doing; every Monday I received proselytizing pamphlets from my superiors, and from their superiors.
Had I been more cantankerous, I guess I would have sued, or started visiting Islamic and Jewish houses of worship, or founded a goat-worshipping cult. But I just wanted to be left alone in order to sleep in late. And had I been more aware of office politics and the "real" work rules, I think I would have taken more care to record the actions of these people so that when they did fire me, I could have proven it was about religious oppression and inappropriate governmental imposition of religious restrictions.
I'm sure they were just DYING to catch me on candid camera at the town's only strip club. Or masturbating in my bathroom alone on a weeknight, even. (Church Lady Dana Carvey says: "SATAN!")
As a former Surveillance Supervisor in the casino industry, I've installed and used casino cameras. There are normally two types of cameras used:
1) stationary in which the camera itself must be manually moved.
2) PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras which can be electonically controlled from a seperate location.
Both types of cameras usually run on an 8 hour 'loop' VCR tape. The casinos, by law, must change out the 'general casino tapes'tapes every 8 hours and hold them for 10 days. Other casino cameras located at the 'cashier fill window' and 'cashier drawers' must be held for a 30 day period.
A few years back, there used to be a website named "Mike Hunt" (i.e., can be termed 'mycunt'. It had a tab to where you could go and watch pre-recorded tapes of semi-private lap dance boothes. The problem was that the dancers knew of the installed cameras, and would use a blanket to cover her and her patron up with, so you really didn't see "shit"!
Myself, of all the clubs I've visited, I would always look for cameras. I would then try and get situated some distance away from it. Most visually recorded areas have blind spots with minimal cameras, so you have to try and find them.
I don't do anything with the dancers under camera, unless I can get her back toward the camera which gives our fronts a little privacy, out of view.
I've seen monitors in the office of one club called Club Utopia in Pulaski, TN, right off I-65, 20 miles from the Alabama border. They have cameras in each of their VIP boothes except one. I've seen the club manager viewing the monitors, but only when he's not out in the club collecting cover charges, etc.
My suggestion? Look for cameras. Find blindspots. Becareful!
Many dancers have told me that management rarely even looks at the monitors unless there is a reason to - I don't think they randomly watch the monitors looking for trouble. There is usually plenty of other stuff going on in the club to keep their full, undivided attention.
And with some of the mischief that I've gotten away with in VIP, I can't believe that they even have the cameras turned ON, much less are watching them!
The other place had tiny private rooms with cameras in them. Once I arrived just as the place was opening and a dancer who I didn't know immediately grabbed my arm saying something like, "Quick, there's no one watching the monitors yet, if we head back now we can do whatever we want." I though she was shitting me but she was cute so I went with her. I was wrong. It was fun. But who expects honesty?