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"Fully Nude" Daytona Beach Strip Club Ignoring Local Ordinance

Posted: 5:52 pm EDT August 11, 2008Updated: 6:22 pm EDT August 11, 2008

Police say The Pink Pony in Daytona Beach (see map) is refusing to keep dancers covered despite a local ordinance. It's almost as if the club is inviting police to make arrests.

It says it right on the sign, "Wow, Fully Nude." That's something that is flatly against the law.

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Daytona Beach to force dancers to keep their clothes on, one club is openly flaunting the fact that it will do what no one else dares.

"You don't want to follow it? No problem. Hey, you want to declare war? My gang's bigger than his gang," said Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood.

For the past week, The Pink Pony has advertised its dancers are fully nude even though they know it's against the law. Two dancers and a manager were just locked up for it last week.

Now Code Enforcement has stepped in, fining the business $5,000 a day just for keeping up the signs and still they stay up.

"Basically, what this guy is saying is, 'Screw you, build up the fine and do what you got to do but I'm gonna keep on running my business my way,'" Chitwood said.

Eyewitness News tried to ask club owners about the signs.

"Are you guys basically telling cops to come in here and bust you?" WFTV reporter Jason Allen asked.

"I ain't telling nobody nothing," a club employee said.

The city gave one possible insight. Staff said the building owner is about to evict the business and the open crime may be a final act of defiance to a long-fought law.

Owners have a code enforcement hearing next month. By that time, the fines for this sign could be over $100,000.

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