Differing approaches

[Holden McGroin]

NEW YORK (AFP) - A New York insurance executive is suing a Manhattan strip club after a champagne-fuelled night of lap-dancing left him nursing a 28,000-dollar bill.

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Mitchell Blaser, 53, said the management at the Scores club had added bogus charges...

Blaser's lawyer said the club had mistakenly banked on the idea that his client -- the chief financial officer of Swiss Re's American unit -- would be too embarrassed to pursue the matter in court....

The final credit card bill included 16,000 dollars for five bottles of Clos de Mesnil champagne, 7,000 dollars for table dances and stripper tips, 1,000 dollars for food and other drinks, and a 4,000-dollar staff tip.

"If you want to live like Colin Farrell, you have to pay for it," Hanover told the New York Post. "The 28,000-dollar bill is totally legitimate."

In his lawsuit, Blaser claimed Scores security personnel had intimidated him into signing a bill for 8,615 dollars. Days later, he said, he discovered that his credit card had been charged three more times.

meanwhile,

Canadian authorities have offered temporary work visas to female dancers from Mexico with documented experience taking it all off

[Creamo]

That was a great discussion listening to Howard Stern yesterday.

Granted, Stern damn near is a partner with Scores, but he had a point. If you want to try and be a celebrity, and act like your Capt. Bignuts at Scores, you gotta pay to play.

If you have the credit to get a bill like that and it takes, and did what he did, too bad.

Plenty of drunks have gone to the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Reno and woke up only 3 grand in the hole. Pry had a much better time too.