# A smart hooker can not get busted. Can she?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 5, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727 "2000-10-05T04:22:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727/21 "2000-10-06T23:37:20Z")
“Handy, what possible reason would an escort, doing legal or illegal activities, have for giving you
her client list?”
Beats me. I think it was pretty rude too, since one of her clients was pretty nice guy.
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### Author:  [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727/22 "2000-10-07T00:39:13Z")
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> \*Originally posted by BlackKnight \*
> \*\*Wouldn’t it be hilarious if a male cop went undercover as a john, and a female cop went undercover as prostitute, and they both tried to arrest each other at the same time? 🙂 \*\*
There was a comic in a recent Mad magazine depicting this happening. I think it was Sergio Aragones. Good stuff.
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### Author:  [@Mammie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mammie)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727/23 "2000-10-07T01:59:43Z")
I work with prostitutes every day. Let me rephrase that. My work brings me in contact with them every day. 🙂
I live in a fairly small town…less than 50,000 and it’s small enough where people know each other locally. It is not uncommon at all for the ladies to tell me some of their client’s names. Kind of a bragging rights sort of thing. It’s very common for them to be “kiss and tells.” In a town this size I have heard many, many names that I recognize but who cares. I’m not talking about any high class hookers here though…only the street ladies. Some have loose lips and some don’t. No pun intended. 🙂
Hope this made sense. Maybe I need another drink.
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### Author:  [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727/24 "2000-10-07T07:29:10Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Sofa King \*
> \*\*The City Paper in DC is chock full of ads for “escort services.” A lot of them look pretty transparent. Whether or not the police attempt to bust these services, I wouldn’t know.
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You know, what _I’ve_ wondered about these ads is whether a police department has or would ever set up an “escort service sting.” It would be extremely easy to do so.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727/25 "2000-10-07T15:01:54Z")
“You know, what I’ve wondered about these ads is whether a police department has or would ever
set up an “escort service sting.””
They sure do. The other way around too, where they catch the Johns.
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### Author:  [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-smart-hooker-can-not-get-busted-can-she/35727/26 "2000-10-07T15:18:05Z")
To see a real escort serviceweb-site, try [http://www.roxyladies.com](http://www.roxyladies.com).
They usedto have a link to a publicationon howto run an escort service and not get busted.
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