Friday, April 25, 2008

Standard-Examiner Expose: Weber County Teenagers Gone Wild

Spotlight on the top story in Thursday's Std-Ex

We didn't want the week to slip by without at least making note of this important story, which was the top front page story in Thurday's Standard-Examiner.

What sets this story apart from your average Wasatch Front "Teenagers gone wild" story (aside from the fact that this particular teenager dropped her "amateur" status and tried to turn "pro"), was the (shall we say) "robust" police response, as reported in this paragraph from the middle of the Sam Cooper story:

Police responded to the club in early April after they were tipped off that one of the dancers may be underage. “There were a ton of cops, sheriffs and highway patrolmen,” one employee said.
Tough duty we suppose, for the seeming hordes of "Utah's Finest" who were apparently dispatched by their various watch commanders to Ogden City's most prominent "Gentleman's Club," in order to apprehend a delinquent teenager.

We do hope none of these "cops, sheriffs and highway patrolmen" suffered any permanent "post-tramatic" stress; and we hope they all "put in" for hazardous duty pay.

Having said all this, we actually do not know what would have been an appropriate police response in a circumstance such as this. We confess that we have not been attending "crime conferences" for 35 years, unlike most experts in law enforcement. For all we know, law enforcement had every reason to anticipate a "dancer riot."

We also think the little gal's mom ought to administer her errant daughter a well-deserved spanking -- and that ought to be the end of it.

And what think our gentle readers?

Well...?

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