A Bud Light and a Shag

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Public sex in Hankinson bar leads city council to decide bar should close for week, serve two years probation

Benny Polacca, The Forum
Published Thursday, December 04, 2008


HANKINSON, N.D. – The City Council here unanimously decided that a bar owner must close his business for a week starting Saturday, serve two years of probation and pay the city’s legal fees as punishment after two 21-year-old patrons were charged with having public drunken sex in October.

Word – and cell phone camera images taken by other bar patrons – of the Oct. 12 incident inside the Spare Time Bar spread across the town within a few days, prompting city officials to call Richland County law enforcement authorities to investigate.

“It was texted everywhere,” Mayor Joe O’Meara said of the incident. “Some (images) traveled to Florida, Colorado, Minnesota. … It got into phones you don’t want it to get to.”

By the following Wednesday, O’Meara said he heard that school-age children had also received the cell phone images.

According to Richland County District Court papers, Joshua J. Fenske of Hankinson and Adriane E. Diede of Breckenridge, Minn., have each been charged with one count of fornication in a public place. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=224005§ion=news&freebie_check&CFID=79462&CFTOKEN=27890360

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1. isn't that why there are bars? (not the public thing...) but come on!

if it weren't for alcohol i'd still be a virgin.

i think they should outlaw cell phone cameras in bars first.

[originalpckelly]

2. Fornication in a public place?

Damn, that's a sentence that had to be spelled right. :rofl:

[Truth2Tell]

3. Since when do City Councils

have the authority to impose sentences on people or businesses? Isn't that the job of courts? :shrug:

And what was the crime of the bar owners?

[TrogL]

4. This thread is useless without pics

Couldn't find it on youtube and I don't want to go anyplace spicier on this computer.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Let fornication thrive...!

(Hey, I'm just quoting Shakespeare...) :evilgrin: