File:Police Clip Joint Warning (3046251754).jpg
"And can anyone explain why dim folk still wander into the seediest clip joints and then profess surprise that the hostess doesn't want to marry them; astonishment that the carafe of Sancerre they shared cost £700. In the absence of explanations, we can but protect them, and so it is that Scotland Yard has gone back to basics. Visitors to a clutch of bars in the racy part of Soho now see outside a yellow board, labelled Police Warning, chained to a lamppost and crafted using the design usually employed to alert the public to murders and muggings. Burly stewarding types can glare - and they do - but they cannot remove it. To do so would be an offence. "It will only cost you £5 to enter one of these premises," it says. "It may cost you £300 to leave." And that's just happy hour. At least there's no binge drinking."
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Tony Austin
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