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Man Suing Strip Club After 90 Minutes Cost Him $21,000
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 12, 2010
Modified Jan 12, 2010
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Published Jan 12, 2010
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A Delaware man is suing Larry Flynt's Hustler Club after he was charged more than $21,000 on two credit cards during just 90 minutes in the joint. Perhaps the worst part is that Gerard Wall, 39, doesn't even have any precious memories to cherish from the night—he claims that after downing two drinks he was approached by a dancer and offered a private lap dance for $300. After that, it's all a blur, but it seems Wall made it rain hard like the Dylan song. And by the time Wall left the club at 10 p.m. on December 12th, he was so inebriated a club employee had to drive him home.
The next day, Wall awoke to find $80 missing from his wallet, and $21,620.60 in fresh charges to his American Express and Discovery cards. According to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by the Daily News, Wall "did not approve any other charges" beyond the perfectly reasonably priced $300 lapdance. But compared to past strip club fleecings, Wall got off easy. In 2005, an executive visiting NYC from Missouri spent $241,000 in one night at Scores. How many of these stories do we have to read before our city, so desperate for revenue, gets a pole tax?
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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