Lingerie Shop Raided For Selling Sex Toys - Clerk Arrested, May Have To Register As Sex Offender

[matcom]

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LUBBOCK, TX -- An obscure law sends one local lingerie store clerk to jail. And now she may forever have to register as a sex offender.
The lingerie store, Somethin’ Sexy was raided by police last week for violating Lubbock`s sexually oriented business ordinance.

"I feel like I`m in 1690 Salem, Massachusetts and we`re looking for a witch to burn" says the store’s owner.

The witch: the owner of Somethin’ Sexy. He`s speaking out about the raid of his shop and the arrest of his employee. Now, if convicted, the clerk will have to register as a sex offender.

"I think it`s ridiculous. She`s not a sex offender, she was selling something that I had instructed them it was ok to sell, I think it`s ridiculous" he says.

Earlier this month, four officers raided the shop, confiscating several toys deemed to be illegal by the Texas penal code. The code states "a person who possesses six or more obscene devices is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same." In other words, intent to sell.

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[RetroLounge]

1. A Store with "intent to sell."

go figure...

RL

[GirlinContempt]

2. That is insane.

[AllegroRondo]

3. how do they know its an obscene device?

maybe its just a back massager?

[Sannum]

4. I better not move there....

though my devices are for personal use:crazy:

[mainegreen]

5. This is a great example of why juries should be instructed about jury nullification.

Because sometimes your government officials are a bunch of evil, soulless fucks that deserve to be torn apart by pitbulls.

[kay1864]

8. ITA.

And although judges take a dim view of defense lawyers informing juries of that right, they can always do Paul Newman's closing from The Verdict:

You know, so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right; tell us what is true." And there is no justice: the rich win, the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time, we become dead... a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims... and we become victims. We become... we become weak. We doubt ourselves, we doubt our beliefs. We doubt our institutions. And we doubt the law. But today you are the law. You ARE the law. Not some book... not the lawyers... not the, a marble statue... or the trappings of the court. See those are just symbols of our desire to be just. They are... they are, in fact, a prayer: a fervent and a frightened prayer. In my religion, they say, "Act as if ye had faith... and faith will be given to you." IF... if we are to have faith in justice, we need only to believe in ourselves. And ACT with justice. See, I believe there is justice in our hearts.

That faith stuff will play great in Texas.

[dropkickpa]

6. That's okay

The good people of Lubbock can order their sex toys from Amazon.

Oh, and I have to say it "sex toys deemed illegal by the Texas penal code""". *snicker* *snort* :rofl:

[petronius]

11. LOL!

:spray:

Thanks, I missed that the first time...

[Blue_Tires]

7. where has Mongo been lately??

[realisticphish]

12. don't worry

we in Ohio love our sex toys :D mongo's fine

[skygazer]

9. More tax dollars at work

They've executed all the actual criminals (and probably a number of perfectly innocent people) so now its time to move on to those evil emporiums who possess items with the intent to sell. You know, like stores.


On a similar wierd note, I was reading a case the other day from (I think) Florida in which a guy was charged with "breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor" which is a felony in Florida. :eyes:

[DS1]

10. Just give Texas back to Mexico

Then Give Alabama, Georgia, and Florida to Cuba. Make LA a French Territory.

[Connonym]

13. Hell, I'd probably be on death row

because I've got way more than six obscene devices. More and more often I'm thinking that we really need to start a new country with no fundies or freepers allowed.