[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

Nothing surprises me anymore. Society has changed. The internet has also changed things.

One year ago I was wondering if a certain rental property had been rented out on our Main Street in town.........so I simply googled the address I was wondering about.

Nothing more, nothing less. Just the numerical street address.

I use google as a loose term for using the search engine. It doesn't matter which one I use. It's not always google.

CRAIGS LIST came right up. It showed girls in babydoll p.j.'s

Beneath the photo, it mentioned that it was a "spa".

Well, we have another credible spa in town and I assure you the girls do not wear p.j's. but esthetician type smocks. (Not sure of that spelling).
They do facials, couples massage for Valentine's day, therapeutic massage, etc.

This place on Craigs List looked and appeared to be very seedy.

I won't go into detail but I sent the link to a group of young men in our family and friend group and they all said it looked like a happy ending kind of place and took it as a big joke.

I checked back later and the website got bigger and added a running blog section with people who had visited it "posting". I really felt it was something illegal going on but didn't want to rock the boat......so that was that. I kept thinking that the police should know.

One year later the police admitted they had been investigating this place and one right around the corner........for human trafficking and other "stuff"..........long story. It was now news all over town.

So, I know full well that TIMES HAVE CHANGED. It doesn't matter what search engine one uses......they can find these CRAIGS LIST businesses all over their own states. We found others all over Vermont.....and neighboring Massachusetts.

These "masseuse'" find empty storefronts, revamp them into a "spa" and open up for business..........the "girls" are afraid to speak (said the police) so it's hard to track down where they came from.......but it's a growing business. Once they are brought up here, or wherever, they have no means of returning back to their families. This is not what smalltown Vermont used to be.

I'm just posting this to show that it can happen in the best of towns.
The Main Street that was once the heart and soul of our town, the street our kids would walk home from elementary school, junior high, high school and stop in to chat with all the merchants........go to the movies on a weekend, buy all our clothing, shoes, eat out, etc........has changed.

By the way, we had school buses, but they all loved to walk home in nice weather and Main Street was part of their growing up years.....

Parents today, no matter where in the country, hesitate to let kids walk alone.......and thus have to drive them everyplace.

What really galled the citizens of our town was when the police said their hands were tied; that even though they were performing certain acts, it somehow wasn't illegal enough according to the law. If I was allowed to state what they actually were doing, which I am not, everyone would think it was illegal.

One of the businesses was closed down and the owner taken in. The other one, I believe is still there. Some of the girls were taken away.

Another thing about Craig's List......the ad only stays for about 3 days and then disappears.....to be reborn in another ad.

These lowlifes know their "rights" and they apparently know the letter of the law.....and what they can get away with.

There are no seedy spa's in The Villages.