{"id":1863,"date":"2010-04-12T20:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2010-04-12T20:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T10:57:52","slug":"strip-clubs-safer-than-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/strip-clubs-safer-than-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Strip Clubs Safer Than Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/assaultfree.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Church now 29% assault free\" \/>This is too amusing to not blog about: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/aussies-safer-in-a-strip-club-than-a-church-figures-show\/story-e6frfkvr-1225852345577\" target=\"blank\">figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research<\/a> show that more assaults, thefts and sexual assaults occurred in churches than in adult entertainment premises in Australia in 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A breakdown of the figures showed that 85 people were assaulted in places of worship, compared to 66 at an adult entertainment premises.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, places of worship include churches, synagogues, monasteries, mosques, convents, cathedrals and chapels.<\/p>\n<p>Premises listed under adult entertainment included strip clubs, sex shops, brothels, massage parlours, homosexual clubs, gaming houses as well as gambling clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Places of worship were also ahead on sexual offences (16), theft from motor vehicles (33), resisting arrest (7) and liquor offences (10).<\/p>\n<p>Harassment and threatening behaviour at places of worship (30) was more than double that of adult entertainment (13).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funnier still, 20 people were charged with possession of marijuana in a church in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at these figures and wonder whether our current laws have it right after all; you can&#8217;t have a strip club within 500m of a church. Maybe because it&#8217;s so dangerous in them thar churches and may cause offense to strip club patrons.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is too amusing to not blog about: figures from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research show that more assaults, thefts and sexual assaults occurred in churches than in adult entertainment premises in Australia in 2008. A breakdown of the figures showed that 85 people were assaulted in places of worship, compared to 66 at an adult entertainment premises. According to the report, places of worship include churches, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/strip-clubs-safer-than-churches\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[45,185,224,757],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-quirky-weird-funny","tag-adult-entertainment","tag-church","tag-crime","tag-statistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}