PDS Gentlemen's Club is one of several
coming under fire from the North Texas
Leadership Council and club owner
Nick Manetti isn't happy about it.
We don't force people to come in here.
Maybe they don't want to come here.
When I first came, if you want to don't
want to go somewhere, people won't make
you go somewhere. So leave us alone,
basically.
But the North Texas Leadership Council
isn't about to leave him alone or other
club owners.
If they're going
after people who go into the clubs taking
pictures of license plates in the parking
lots.
We then run those through the Department
of Motor Vehicles, get a address
and mail a notice to the home.
We can't stop people taking pictures, but
that's just not right.
I mean, and if I went to all their homes
and take pictures, you know, let people
have some privacy.
Lamere says the topless bar industry in
Dallas alone employs about 5000
people. The group says the city
needs to get rid of those illegal clubs.
The only ones that we're we're going
after and that we are videotaping out
are the ones that are actually a nuisance
in the neighborhoods.
Now, the owner says this park
is the reason he's considered illegal.
It's right across the street from the
club. But he says this used to be
swampland when he first got here and
he says he got here first and he's not
going away at this point.
It's a stalemate with neither side
willing to give up mamady feels, though,
this is just one battle in a war
that's as old as the business itself
had. The McKensie, Texas News 5.
Hey, come here, I want to tell you
something. That's right.