re: AJC article regarding UGA

I’ve been saying for years that Athens Georgia is a filth town. Kirby is trash

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ATHENS — A late-night visit to a strip club preceded a car crash that killed a University of Georgia football player and an employee of the school’s football program, raising questions about boundaries between the program’s staff and its athletes.

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Kirby is trash, Georgia is trash.

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The big scoop for me was that there is a strip joint in Athens.

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There used to be another one and a lingerie modeling studio, whatever that was about. Toppers has been in the same place a LONG time. Its almost a Clarke County institution LOL.

Its a STRANGE place. I haven't been in there in years but in the late 90's there was an elevator from the floor above, which opened to the public on the street level lobby of the building, and the elevator door would open in direct line of site of the runway LOL. Many's the young family who got on that elavator heading in the wrong direction and wound up staring at a totally nude woman hanging onto a pole with a bunch of drunks staring lewdly at her....too funny.

It was, at one time, owned by an older black lady although it was rumored that she was a front for a loosely connected crime syndicate from Atlanta. I did about $25K worth of electrical work for them once during a renovation and they wouldn't pay their bills at all, let alone on time. I went to talk to the lady that owned it and when I entered her office there were two white dudes standing at attention on either side of her sitting at her desk dressed in sharkskin suits and wearing sunglasses LOL. They were straight of central casting for a low budget gangster movie. I did not receive any satisfaction from this meeting but after pulling a 1950's era bus plug out of the facility and shutting the power off the owner suddenly found my money and paid me. Strange that the money was readily available when there was no power in the place. Athens at the height of the popularity of the Sopranos was awash in similar business owners thinking they were some kind of Mafia Dons...Little Italy and Flanagan's Pub come to mind immediately. As it turned out the son of the Little Italy owner was indeed selling heroine out of the pizza joint so they may have actually had some ties to OC but the rest were just posing. It was funny to see....all of them were notorious about not paying their bills though and that wasn't funny in the least.

Toppers opened around 92. I was living at River Mill at the time but moved to a loft apartment above Flanagans and Half Moon Pub later. Toppers was about a long Lob wedge from my doorstep.

And there was also Chelsea’s on Baxter Street.

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I think the big scoop most people get is that UGA hires young females for the "recruiting staff", who are probably also students, to...errr...escort football recruits and players to strip joints, get wasted with them, then go home with them in UGA provided vehicles.

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What SEC program doesn’t do this?

This would never happen in College Station.

If the AJC was actually interested in investigative journalism, they would find the footage of them entering the establishment to see if they players and staff members arrived together or were just being picked up. As it is, we don't know if that is the case or not, but I'm sure they don't care - they're getting their clicks.

So now this is bama’s fault?

The attorneys for victim will get footage from Toppers. I’m sure the authorities already have possession.