NewsTalk 1290 News & Talk of Texoma » prostitution http://newstalk1290.com Thu, 23 May 2013 10:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 McDonald's, A Prostitute And A Cop; It's No April Fools Joke http://newstalk1290.com/mcdonalds-a-prostitute-and-a-cop-its-no-april-fools-joke/ http://newstalk1290.com/mcdonalds-a-prostitute-and-a-cop-its-no-april-fools-joke/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:11:56 +0000 Mike Hendren http://newstalk1290.com/?p=33883 t seems last Friday evening, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office was mounting an offensive against prostitutes. An undercover detective spotted a suspicious looking 40 something lass and ‘offered her a ride’

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]]> http://newstalk1290.com/mcdonalds-a-prostitute-and-a-cop-its-no-april-fools-joke/feed/ 0 Mug shot of Christine Baker German Prostitutes Have to Feed a Street-Walking Meter http://newstalk1290.com/german-prostitutes-have-to-feed-a-street-walking-meter-2/ http://newstalk1290.com/german-prostitutes-have-to-feed-a-street-walking-meter-2/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:12:24 +0000 NewsTalk 1290 http://newstalk1290.com/?p=6239 Prostitution is legal in Germany, and subject to taxation. While the German government doesn’t have a problem collecting taxes from sex workers who operate out of brothels, getting street walkers to pay up has been tricky.

The German city of Bonn thinks they have a solution to this problem: a parking-meter like device which women who solicit on the street put $8.70 into nightly for a ticket that gives them the privilege of using the pavement.

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