Oh Boy. Smalltown Scandals

As some of us are aware, I've been shifted into news.

Here's today's assignment:

Local chapter of a bigtime international charity throws a fundraising dinner. No biggie, until they:

1) Threw it at a city owned hall the city gave to them rent free
2) Hired strippers (illegal, according to city bylaws)
3) Didn't invite any women members of the chapter
4) Invited the public - except for women
5) Denied two women who did try to attend entrance at the door

This is shaping up to be a shitshow of epic proportions.

Anyone have a Little League all-star game I can volunteer to cover?

 

Dude, you've struck the mother lode of news side stories. Interview every stripper you can find. Report back. Extra points if their was a dwarf or a bag of cocaine at the scene. Was it the United Way? The United Way knows how to party.

 

well, you shouldn't have to take any other assignments for a while. That story is the gift that keeps on giving ...

 

That's a shit ton of work, but at least it will be a good click.

 

There was a great piece of reporting done at my old paper about a truck stop/strip joint robbery off I-95. It was only an eight-inch story, and the (female) reporter didn't actually go to the club since it was a ways away and the crime wasn't terribly shocking, but before getting off the phone with one of the stripper witnesses, she asked her what she was wearing when this all went down. The ensemble included a leather jacket, a G-string and clear heels. That got in the story.

 

I'm trying to figure out what kind of international charity has chapters that hire strippers to entertain at their fundraisers.

 

Exactly. That's why so many community members are PISSED. I am going to call the headquarters for comment.

 

Sounds like you hit the jackpot, Pete. Way better than the grip and grins/fundraiser pics I had to take when I was a reporter/photog!

And for all the laughs and indignation of the strippers' appearance, point No. 1 is a big deal, too. If the city lets one charity organization use their facility rent free, that really opens up Pandora's Box.

 

I'm assuming the men are pissed because they aren't members.

 

Pete that is awesome!
I hope you are at least a little excited by this.
I would be drooling at the idea of doing this story (said guy who jumped from sports to news a few years ago because of covering one too many LL games and doing D-III signing stories)

 

Are you using a rotary dial to make that call?

 

I guess it can easily be said, those strippers work hard, and they deserve coverage too.