GA town wastes $1 million taxpayers' money to buy strip club...

[rfranklin]

Town spends $1 million to buy, shut strip club
Lavonia officials bought Cafe Risque as a way to close it down


updated 7:01 p.m. ET, Thurs., July. 31, 2008
LAVONIA, Ga. - A small town in northeast Georgia has bought a strip club, but it's not planning to get into the adult entertainment business.

The town of Lavonia could have used nearly $1 million to pay off the bond fund for a water treatment plant upgrade. Instead, officials bought Cafe Risque, which they have long tried to shut down.

Lavonia's mayor got a standing ovation when he announced the deal at a meeting earlier this week. Crews took down the signs advertising it and burned them in a large bonfire at the strip club site, near a major highway.


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[marmar]

1. "Crews took down the signs advertising it and burned them in a large bonfire"

Does anyone else find that a little bit frightening?.....

These people. :wtf: To hell with clean and safe water, we closed down the strip club!

[hobbit709]

2. And the former owner will build a new one just outside the city limits.

[Ian David]

6. I sure hope so!

[MrScorpio]

3. A million dollars, eh?

I guess they have a lot of money to burn

[ixion]

Let's see... so they spent money they didn't have to reduce the amount of money

they'll make in the future from taxes paid by the business.

I think this is a prime example of why we're screwed.

[fasttense]

4. What a stupendous waste of public funds. N/t

[Ian David]

5. Fucking idiots getting the government they deserve. I hope they get cholera. n/t