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Teddy Kumpel wrote:
> He banned DANCING in clubs
> without a DANCING license. he fined all the major clubs that didn't have
> enough $ to pay for the license, when his undercover operatives found
people
> jiggling their butts. So for the last 8 years, all my favorite clubs have
> signs on the wall that say "no dancing, sorry". The dancing license costs
> too much for these clubs which already pay huge NYC rents.

Oh my god. If that really is the truth, poor NYC people.
Let's hope there will never be such a thing for germany. I don't think
Berlin could pay for such a license during the Love Parade (where half of
Berlin actually IS a turned into a dancing club).

> whatever... he should have taken the $ and said, "I don't care what he
> thinks, he gave us $"

Eh... :-)

Sascha

At 9:32 PM +0200 10/14/01, Sascha Franck wrote:
>
>Oh my god. If that really is the truth, poor NYC people.
>Let's hope there will never be such a thing for germany. I don't think
>Berlin could pay for such a license during the Love Parade (where half of
>Berlin actually IS a turned into a dancing club).

In Tokyo there is a selectively enforced law that prohibits dancing 
anywhere after midnight.  Generally people forget about its existence 
but every few years some cops and politicians get a hair up their 
butt and a bunch of clubs get closed.  It would be funny if it 
weren't such a bummer.
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I wonder how one defines "dancing"? Moving one body to a beat? What if 
you stayed in your seat and bobbed up and down. Or what if you moved to 
the beat as you walked to the bathroom. And how do they prove this in a 
court of law? Undercover videotape?

>The NYC cabaret law was passed in 1926, while Rudy was not even a twinkle in
>his fathers eye.  Just that, it had been ignored for decades, and he started
>enforcing it.  Part of his twisted 'quality of life' campaign.  Get your
>facts straight!

According to some club owners I know, one of the things they look for is a
cleared out area with no tables or chairs - evidence of willful dancing!
And other dancefloor accoutremonts, like lighting.  Basically, if it looks
like you're condoning dancing.  Some places that have a cleared out floor
for live shows, like Contenental Divide, put up 'no dancing' signs, probably
to appease the inspectors.  You can't really expect people to sit at a
candle-lit table listening to some blur-core band :)

> From: GAmoore@...
> Reply-To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 03:15:43 EDT
> To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re:  Re: [L-OT] Re: Guiliani is dumb
> 
> I wonder how one defines "dancing"? Moving one body to a beat? What if
> you stayed in your seat and bobbed up and down. Or what if you moved to
> the beat as you walked to the bathroom. And how do they prove this in a
> court of law? Undercover videotape?
> 
>> The NYC cabaret law was passed in 1926, while Rudy was not even a twinkle in
>> his fathers eye.  Just that, it had been ignored for decades, and he started
>> enforcing it.  Part of his twisted 'quality of life' campaign.  Get your
>> facts straight! 
> 
> 
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