By ANNE JUNGEN
Honey was topless onstage before about 200 people when the music
stopped about 11:45 p.m. She saw police. Lots of them.
“I was like, ‘What the hell is going on?’” she said.
An officer escorted Honey to a private room inside Gunner’s Bar
in rural De Soto, where she and eight other women dressed before
being handcuffed and hauled to the Vernon County Sheriff’s
Department during the Dec. 18 raid.
Authorities contend the nine strippers and the tavern owner
violated the local pornographic performances ordinance, a county
law that hasn’t been invoked since it was passed 31 years ago.
“We got a stupid pink $500 ticket,” said Honey, who asked to be
identified by her stage name. “I was like, ‘Are you serious? Did
you just make this up?’ I know it’s kind of gross, but I don’t
think we did anything wrong.”
Neither do legal experts.
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