one more on the job perk which has disintegrated under the pervasive republican hegemony

Just because they don't NEED to...

And just like that, another industry is destroyed.

I always think of Australia as a southern version of canada, but you guys get some shiat going on down there that wouldn't even begin to fly/slip through the cracks here.

weird stuff.

Must have a very weak labour union; to allow a fringe benefit to be summarily yanked, so to speak.

Illegal brothels and sex slavery are all over Melbourne and a lot more has to be done about it. I don't see why they have as much trouble investigating them as they do.

Its been in the media here a lot, and from what I've read you have ones that are just asian women, with little english. Arrange to meet with them away from their employers, check visa and work permit. Prosecute those in charge. No sex required.

CarrieWhite: Illegal brothels and sex slavery are all over Melbourne and a lot more has to be done about it.

And gang violence. We're all about the gang violence. And the drugs.

/you gotta have drugs
//or so I heard, anyway

"Hey, you guys were too late," McNulty says as a prostitute straddles him.

Phil Moskowitz: I always think of Australia as a southern version of canada, but you guys get some shiat going on down there that wouldn't even begin to fly/slip through the cracks here.

weird stuff.

i always think of australian as the english version of america

And just as I was filling out the paper work for private investigator. I was hoping to get a job where the whore money was an expense item. I guess I'll have to settle for US Senator.

Excellent use of the SAD tag

"Private investigators will no longer need to have sex with prostitutes to gather evidence against illegal brothels."

Need? What does need have to do with it? Just let them work, man!

FTFA: William Albon, a spokesman for legal brothels and escort agencies, said the MOU must compel police to help local councils in their fight against illegal brothels, which he estimates number 400 in Victoria.

This is not SAD... this is SPIFFY. We should do all we can to help the legal brothels and escort agencies; closing down illegal ones - whose prostitutes live in slavery - is a good thing. Those investigators can go to the legal brothels any time they want.

No doubt many of the illegal operations survive with the assistance of corrupt police. You can see why a cop might take that route. In addition to the freebies, it could be very profitable... for instance, seven bribes for seven brothels

/wonderful, wonderful day

Phil Moskowitz: I always think of Australia as a southern version of canada, but you guys get some shiat going on down there that wouldn't even begin to fly/slip through the cracks here.

weird stuff.

I always think of Australia as the Bizarro-version of America actually. It's like any loony tunes ideation someone might have finds a place to thrive in an agar of completely unironic self-narcissism.

I quit

"If there are heaps of blokes walking in and going quickly, then that is a point of evidence that can now be taken into account by the magistrate,"

That sounds more like a pot selling/drug operation rather than a sex house. I mean, how quickly are the blokes leaving after arriving? I figure it would take at least 15 minutes, if not more to get off, right? And if it's quicker, then they must be real lousy whores or the punters are into speed sex. I've never been to a brothel or used a sex worker, so I don't know if they try to rush you.

/like to take my time
//no such thing as a quickie in my book
///

i think the whole idea of prostitution is to sleep with as many clients you can so the faster you get a guy off the quicker another client can get in...more clients = more money for the pimp

/my wife is a whore...so i know about this stuff

Rob Anybody: CarrieWhite: Illegal brothels and sex slavery are all over Melbourne and a lot more has to be done about it.

And gang violence. We're all about the gang violence. And the drugs.

/you gotta have drugs
//or so I heard, anyway

Sounds like Melbourne alright...

You also forgot shiatty weather.

CarrieWhite: Illegal brothels and sex slavery are all over Melbourne and a lot more has to be done about it. I don't see why they have as much trouble investigating them as they do.

That is a gross exaggeration. I defy you to find an illegal brothel around Burwood. Trust me, I've looked. There just aren't any. You have to go all the way back to Camberwell.

tabula_rasta: for instance, seven bribes for seven brothels

Oh ouch.

Doc Batarang: Phil Moskowitz: I always think of Australia as a southern version of canada....

I always think of Australia as the Bizarro-version of America...

I always think of Australia as a former prison colony with a special section for lepers.

michaeld5: "Hey, you guys were too late," McNulty says as a prostitute straddles him.

Beat me to it.

/misses McNulty
//misses The Wire

Damnit! That's half the reason I wanted to be a brothel investigator!

Supplenuts: Rob Anybody: CarrieWhite: Illegal brothels and sex slavery are all over Melbourne and a lot more has to be done about it.

And gang violence. We're all about the gang violence. And the drugs.

/you gotta have drugs
//or so I heard, anyway

Sounds like Melbourne alright...

You also forgot shiatty weather.

Hey!

I really did.

Rob Anybody: Supplenuts: Rob Anybody: CarrieWhite: Illegal brothels and sex slavery are all over Melbourne and a lot more has to be done about it.

And gang violence. We're all about the gang violence. And the drugs.

/you gotta have drugs
//or so I heard, anyway

Sounds like Melbourne alright...

You also forgot shiatty weather.

Hey!

I really did.

I really want to visit Australia, some day.

Considering what the average prostitute looks like according to fark 'round up' threads, I do not envy these guys.

Hell, I wouldn't envy them anyway. Who wants to put their dick in a hole that's already been farked by 5 or six dudes that very day?

Depends on your definition. I moved to melbourne for the colder weather.

tabula_rasta: for instance, seven bribes for seven brothels

[facepalm]

Mouren: Damnit! That's half the reason I wanted to be a brothel investigator!

That was my only reason.

meow76: Excellent use of the SAD tag

How is that excellent use of the SAD tag when you are in a country that legalizes prostitution yet regulates it like many other Western countries such as Germany, Holland...

SAD tag is for the U.S. which in most cases refuses to legalize an ancient activity for pay (other than Nevada where its expensive/inconvenient to travel to and partake of).

Oh...AMERICA! FARK YA!

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of private investigators suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

I can't believe no one posted...

OH THE HUGE MAMMARIES

Not all the illegal whore houses are about sex slavery. There are more working girls and guys than the legal places can hire so a group will get together and rent a house and run their own place and not have to pay the house owner 50% or more. In Victoria about one person in 4000 has a hooking license. I've got a friend whose family has owned brothels for 5 generations after her great great ... great grand mother got sent to Australia for being an out of favour mistress for some guy with a title. A 5 room whorehouse with a proper license is worth $20 million or so. There are even a few that are selling stock on the local stock exchange. Other friends that work in the medical profession are convinced that your far less likely to pick up something from licensed working girl than the local hippies.

don't tell me how to do my job

Doc Batarang: Bizarr

This. Australia is essentially what would have happened to the US had we not broken from England by force and set up a Constitutional democracy with a codified (non-common-law) Bill of Rights.

In another story: Sherlock Holmes has been diagnosed with depression, has gone back to solving murders.

hitler was a hardcore liberal: Phil Moskowitz: I always think of Australia as a southern version of canada, but you guys get some shiat going on down there that wouldn't even begin to fly/slip through the cracks here.

weird stuff.

i always think of australian as the english version of america

They hate that, but it's basically true. They're more American than the Canadians are. There's a C&W bar down the street from my mother in laws house that has line dancing every wed and friday night.

This is not all that unusual.

hitler was a hardcore liberal: "i always think of australian as the english version of america"

Erm... wouldn't *Canada* be the English version of America?

/Mexico and the western side of South America are the Spanish version of America. Brazil is the Portuguese version.
//The USA itself is the French version of America, given a quick rinsing through the English version. This explains our warmongering now - overcompensation for a past as cheese-eating surrender-monkeys.

Previously, in a bizarre and controversial situation, private investigators had to pay and receive sexual services from prostitutes so local councils could prove to a court the existence of an illegal brothel.

Dude... wait, wha?