If Loving You is Wrong, I Don't Wanna Be Right

It's a bust! In fact, it was a lot of them for South St. Paul police officers responding to complaints of drug use:

Twenty minutes before police raided a South St. Paul sex swingers club, one of the partygoing couples reportedly won the top prize — a sex game — for their Halloween costumes. They were dressed as a police officer and a jailbird.

When the real police arrived at 1 a.m. Saturday, they found about 100 partygoers in the two-story building between two bars on South Concord Street. Officers also found small amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine. Three people were arrested in the raid; everyone inside was identified and photographed.

Yes, thank goodness for the South St. Paul police. I feel so much safer in my community now that we have pictures of all the spouse-swappers out on the town last weekend. Why spend the time on photographing people who didn't have drugs on them if drugs were the probable cause of the raid? (Maybe the swingers just wanted updated photos for their web sites. Clever.)

South St. Paul Police Chief Michael Messerich said police had suspected for months that Cline had been operating a swingers club at the location. But Messerich said that no allegations of prostitution or nonconsensual sex had surfaced. The alleged activity, consensual sex among adults, is not illegal, the chief noted.

Yeah, Chief, thanks for clearing that up.

While swingers parties are not on the local Chamber of Commerce's list of desired businesses ...

I'll bet they could make a quicker profit than those darn T-shirt kiosks in the middle of mall traffic. More satisfied customers, too.

Messerich said a search warrant was obtained and about 40 officers assisted the Dakota County Drug Task Force in making the raid. The task force is made up of officers from suburban police departments and the Dakota County Sheriff's Department.

Forty officers? It took 40 officers to arrest three people? I'll bet this is some sort of union thing, right? The last contract negotiations allowed for lower pay raises as long as they could get a lot of officers in on sex-party busts. Come on ... it's not like there's a lot of places in which to hide a weapon.

Two bars — Nick's Place and Al's Corral Bar & Grill — are on either side of Cline's place.

Thanks for the directions, we'll see you there Saturday night. It's "come as you are".

"Most people go there hoping to hook up with someone, that's swinging."

Only most people? What are the other ones there for, the articles?

Hauser objected to the police raid, which he said violated his constitutional rights. He said that Cline's parties, at least the couple of times he's attended, didn't "have anything to do with narcotics. It's not a drug place. It's a private party. It's not illegal to take your clothes off and have sex in a private place," Hauser said.

It's not? In John Ashcroft's America? Dubya's gonna be pissed!

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