Three students at Jacksonville University have been punished for
installing a stripper pole in an on-campus apartment
and taking pictures as fully clothed women performed on it at a
party. A female student who won a dance contest also
was disciplined.
About a dozen women competed for a $100 Victoria's Secret gift
certificate Sept. 11, said James Foster, a 20-year-old
who hosted the party. None of the women disrobed.
The men bought the steel pole from Home Depot, bolted it to the
concrete ceiling and attached the bottom to a plywood
stage covered in red felt.
"Honestly, we just wanted to say we had a stripper pole," Foster said. "We never actually expected girls to dance on it."
When university officials ordered the men to remove the pole, they complied, but not before building a huge party around it.
Signs reading "Pole Dancers Wanted" were posted around
campus and the men bought large quantities of beer. Friends
were enlisted friends to check identifications and manage security.
They charged $5 for men, and women were let in free.
The party ended shortly after the beer ran out.
John Daigle Jr., a school spokesman, said the party's hosts may have
violated the university's alcohol policy and broken
rules against indecent behavior and the making of unapproved changes
to university property.
Daigle, citing school privacy rules, would not identify the students
or the punishment they received, but said: "The university
took this seriously and the punishment was appropriate."
Punishments at the university can range from a reprimand to dismissal.
Foster said he was put on residential probation through Nov. 9 and had to write a letter of apology.
Daigle said he later learned the woman who won the dance contest was
also disciplined, but would not say what her
punishment was. "There was no public nudity involved here,"
he said.
Residential adviser Amber Davis said the party degraded women.
"There are other ways they can go out and get a girlfriend if that's what they want," she said.
The men have taken down the pole and converted the stage to a pingpong table.
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Hooters of America and a rival restaurant chain have begun arguing in
federal court over who has rights to the concept of
using scantily clad women to sell food and beer.
Hooters of America accuses Ker's WingHouse of Kissimmee of poaching
the idea after Hooters opened its first sports bar
in Clearwater in 1983, Hooters lawyer Steve Hill said in opening
statements Wednesday in Orlando.
''The evidence will show WingHouse has copied the Hooter girl almost
from head to toe,'' Hill said. ``For want of a better
expression, the Hooter girl is our Ronald McDonald.''
Crawford Ker said he based his chain on Knockers, a Largo restaurant
with an all-female staff that he took over, according
to a pretrial deposition.
He now has 15 locations, including five in the Orlando area. The chain had revenues of $26 million last year.
''Hooters wants to use the court system to accomplish what it can't
do in the marketplace. It's going to ask you to create a
monopoly,'' Ker lawyer Don Conwell said Wednesday. ``They're a
25-year-old chain. . . . They're not up to the
competition.''
Atlanta-based Hooters said in a trade dress infringement lawsuit
filed last year that Ker's WingHouse stole everything from
the design of its parchment menus to staff calendars and celebrity
photographs on the walls.
Hooters said other ideas swiped by its rival include Christmas lights
and surfboards hanging from the ceiling and signs on
the walls warning ''Double Curves'' and ``Caution: Blonde Thinking.''
Hooters earns more than $750 million a year from almost 400
restaurants. ''We believe we are defending the integrity of
our intellectual property rights,'' Hooters senior vice president
Michael McNeil said outside the courtroom Wednesday.
Web Master Note: I think more restaraunts should have scantly clad waitresses.
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A Bulgarian farmer has gone to court to demand substantial damages
after claiming the prize-winning pedigree pig he bought
from a breeder was a homosexual.
Farmer Galen Dobrev, 43, from Shumen in Bulgaria told the court:
"It's a disgrace, all he was interested in was other
male pigs."
The farmer took pictures of the gay pig to prove the 220-pound boar
was homosexual and had fellow farmers testify on
his behalf as to the pig's sexual preferences.
He told the court that when his fellow farmers heard about the gay
pig it had also been impossible to sell him - and in the
end he had turned the animal into sausages.
But the breeder who sold the pig claimed that the farmer had acted
too soon by making pork sausages, and said that if he
had waited until the pig was sexually mature he would have found it
performed perfectly normally.
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Stolen banknotes dumped in a US creek were found by beavers and weaved into their dam.
Thousands of dollars were stolen from a casino in Greensburg, Louisiana, and thrown into a creek, reports the Advocate.
Police said beavers tore open a money bags and wove the bills into the sticks and brush of their dam.
Major Michael Martin said deputies also recovered two other money bags, one of which had floated against the dam.
So far, deputies have recovered slightly more than half of the £40,000 stolen from the Lucky Dollar Casino.
Lawyers representing a man claiming to be involved in the theft contacted police to try to make a deal.
He told officers where the money had been dumped and police began a search to try to recover the cash.
Deputies found one of the bags right away and found the second
downstream but couldn't find the third - until they looked
at the dam itself.
"They hadn't torn the bills up," Major Martin said. "They were still whole."
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A student has been banned from auctioning her boobs on the internet.
The girl, who called herself Twinkly Spangle, offered bidders a
15-minute fondling session with her 32C assets to fund
her university fees.
She even promised a cup of tea and snack at her Colchester home - and included a naked snap of her cleavage on the site.
Bidding for the breasts, "still attached, great condition" started at £20 yet quickly soared to £180.
But eBay chiefs removed the ad - saying it broke their erotica ban reports The Sun.
A spokesman said: "We have strict rules on this."
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A Taiwanese man survived with only minor bite wounds after trying to convert two zoo lions to Christianity
Chen Chung-ho jumped into the lions' ensclosure at the Taipei City Zoo in Mucha, reports the China Post.
Raising his hands above his head, he shouted: "Jesus will save you!" and "Come bite me!" at the two African lions.
At first the big cats, lounging under a tree, paid no attention to the man but finally they attacked him, injuring his arms and legs.
The two lions pulled back after the 46-year old man put his hands in front of his chest to pray.
After a standoff that lasted for about 30 minutes, zoo staff used
water cannons to chase the lions away and calmed the
animals with tranquilizer guns.
The rescued man was rushed to the nearby Wan Fang Hospital for treatment.
Zoo officials claimed Chen would have been more seriously hurt had the lions not been fed earlier in the day.