Sales pitch.Sex sells, but the city thinks it offers an unfair advantage. In seeking to shut down the Big Apple Bookstore, a North Hollywood adult bookstore and video arcade This article is about video arcades. For other uses of the term arcade, see Arcade. A video arcade (also known as an amusement arcade in the United Kingdom or a game center in Japan) is a place where people play arcade video games. , the City Attorney's office said 116 arrests of people committing and soliciting sexual acts alone and in pairs provided evidence of a public nuisance public nuisance n. a nuisance which affects numerous members of the public or the public at large, as distinguished from a nuisance which only does harm to a neighbor or a few private individuals. . It also claimed Big Apple was in violation of section 17200 of the state's Business and Professions Code, barring unfair competition. The city argued that by providing a venue for illicit sexual activity the bookstore unfairly brought in more revenue and gained an unfair advantage over its competitors, said Eric Moses, a spokesman for the City Attorney. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Superior Court Judge Thomas Willhite Jr. agreed, and ordered the store's owner, Whitey whit·ey also Whit·ey n. pl. whit·eys Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a white person or white people. Noun 1. Inc., to shut down its adult video booths for a year, liquidate its video equipment and pay a $25,000 fine. Clyde DeWitt, the lawyer for Whitey Inc., declined comment. |
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