Crime. It's a problem. Kalgoorlie has some pretty big problems with house breaking and violent assault. Then there's the amphetamine trade up here, causes a lot of problems. Violence, poverty, abuse.
So you'll be glad to hear that the Kalgoorlie police are going all out to stop the skimpies showing their nipples. Because that's obviously the real problem in town.
To be fair it's actually the licensing department in Perth that's making them do it but still, really, isn't there better uses of resources.
Anyhow to mark the end of an era we decided to go out and do a trip round the 'skimpy pubs' in town. It started at the Star and Garter for food (no skimpies obviously). At 6.25 about six people in the place. At 6.35 about twenty million people in the place as every junior football player in the sate seemed to turn up. OK that may be an exaggeration but we decided that we'd never get food at that rate. So after a few beers on an empty stomach we went off to the Hannans Pub. Food was good, no skimpies. Next to the Inland City, no skimpies. Few games of pool. Me, Tim, Trav and Ben playing badly at doubles; Andy and Owen re-enacting the "Color of Money" on the other table. Few more beers. Next to the Exchange; NO SKIMPIES...well one, with a t-shirt on which seemed to defeat the object. So off to the Federal; NO SKIMPIES, in fact the place was shut. Finally we went to the Criterion and finally found a skimpy.
Five pubs, one skimpy. Truly the end of an era.
People seemingly have nothing better to do than be morally outraged that consenting adults in the privacy of a bar may see the nipple of another consenting adult.
ReplyDeleteThis has been all over the news and all they are doing is reinforcing a law that was enacted about 6 years ago.
"you can get away with more in Kalgoorlie".
ReplyDeleteHey, this even made the national newspapers in England.
Quote- The Daily Telegraph
AUSTRALIA'S celebrated "skimpies" - scantily clad barmaids who titillate miners and tempt tourists at remote towns in the Goldfields - are being ordered to cover up.
Police have warned pub owners in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia's main gold mining centre, that staff are to be forbidden from wearing see-through tops and G-strings. The crackdown consolidates a recent move that banned barmaids from going topless, but Kalgoorlie is unhappy.
Many local people approve of the skimpies and Kalgoorlie's numerous brothels. The town has a surplus of single men, most of them gold miners working away from home on short-term contracts.
In the Fifties, when Australia was in the grip of a gold boom, miners would stand in queues for prostitutes who operated from stalls with stable doors. The brothels are now more discreet.
Under Western Australia's Liquor Licensing Act, the practice of "heads and tails", where pub patrons throw barmaids money to induce them to expose their breasts or buttocks, is illegal. But authorities have traditionally turned a blind eye in Kalgoorlie, which has a population of 30,000 and recently elected a transsexual brothel madam to its local council.
From December 10, licensees and skimpies may face prosecution. The mayor of Kalgoorlie, Paul Robson, said: "We have rampant, illicit drug houses in the city and police keep telling me they don't have the resources to stop them. We've got an unsolved murder and they're going to clamp down on skimpies. What harm do they do?"
Inspector Gary O'Meara of Goldfields-Esperance police said the directive was an attempt to bring Kalgoorlie into line with stricter standards in Perth. He said police had heard from barmaids that they could make more money in the goldfields than in Perth because "you can get away with more in Kalgoorlie". -END.
I love the last line. No wonder Pete did not want to leave!
philip