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Is That Your Baton, or Are You Happy to Be Here?

A police officer noticed the lights on at a social club in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, and decided to investigate. He found a group of ladies holding a 50th birthday party and, when they saw him, “there were loud cheers and someone shouted, ‘Oh, are you the stripogram?’,” officer Mike Ober said. The copper “had to beat a hasty retreat,” but said he was flattered by the mistake. He added that as he left, he passed the real stripper heading in. (RC/BBC) ...“You’re on your own, buddy.”
Original Publication Date: 28 February 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 22.

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