Cancelled appointment

[Jasong]

I need to ask for advice. Today I cancelled an appointment because I happened to observe odd activity outside shop. I wont name it because it could be unrelated to the shop. I alerted the shop so the rest is up to them.
Maybe im overreacting. The town is known to be unfriendly to amps. I noted more than 1 car in lot with single male occupant just sitting. Then two left at same time and two new ones arrived and just sat. Its not really a busy high traffic strip and doesn’t have an anchor like a pizza place etc. ine guy was moving items out of tge adjacent shop to a car. I decided to leave and as I passed the amp i saw a shiny black and blacked out squad car behind the building within a few feet of the shop. I drove out and around and it had official plates. Would any of this cause you to move on? shop said “they not here to see you” but didnt say how theyd know. I hated cancelling on her but… am I overthinking it?

 

[StatsManPhilly]

Better safe than sorry.

 

[Yeahcasual]

We all know that it's just part of the game man. It's remarkably unhelpful to not say what shop it was.

 

[Jasong]

We all know that it's just part of the game man. It's remarkably unhelpful to not say what shop it was.

Im sorry if it was unhelpful. If you roll into an amp lot and it looks like the end of John Wick 2 just keep movin like Mr Wick did and get the hell outta there. but seriously I just didnt want to cause the providers an issue if i was overreacting. I dont think i overreacted so if you wanna dm me… ill just say its in spring city royersford area. I know of about 4 or 5 spas in that area. i dont spook easily and been at this for 25 years or so. I pay attention. But i was spooked today.
Her text read: “No worries police, not look you” “try back door instead” which was where the squad car was. I think she meant no one would see me.

 

[Jasong]

Anyone know what news source is good to keep up with if a soa gets shut down? Not all towns have blotters to view. Curious

 

[oldhorndog53]

topjimmy (the site administrator) posted this in response to OP’s inquiry on this very subject in another forum:

“Don’t do it. The “I saw LE in the parking lot” alerts do more damage than good. No value in them.”

 

[Jasong]

Ok thanks for the advice.

 

[fffinster]

I've walked into shops with LEO parked out front. Typically not a big deal. If something were happening, typically they wouldn't make themselves so obvious.

 

[Jasong]

i assume the process is to watch and document for some time. Prefer that my plate and photo arent part of the file. Lol.
About 20 years ago i was in a asian place in nyc and it was raided. The masseuse panicked and locked the room door. They broke it down. Cop was pissed. I dont know what usually happens to clients but they explained what they COULDVE done to me. Wrote diwn my info and sent me on my way. Never heard another word about it. Doubt id get that lucky a second time

 

[Hopeful]

I had a similar experience (different area) a few years ago. Multiple cars parked in front of the place with one male just sitting there. Crown Vic style cars. A six-store strip mall with several empty stores and several dying businesses. The place had a back entrance so I used it. MMS was aware, said it was the township trying to kill her biz by scaring her customers away. To protect and serve.

 

[geekdmb]

i assume the process is to watch and document for some time. Prefer that my plate and photo arent part of the file. Lol.
About 20 years ago i was in a asian place in nyc and it was raided. The masseuse panicked and locked the room door. They broke it down. Cop was pissed. I dont know what usually happens to clients but they explained what they COULDVE done to me. Wrote diwn my info and sent me on my way. Never heard another word about it. Doubt id get that lucky a second time

I have never had an experience like that, nothing even close but from what I hear from other people and from what I read; they "almost" always tell you what they "Could have" done to you and send you away. They are not really after you but the big fish.

It's something like...
%5 - They are after you.
%15 - They are after the working girls.
%80 - They are after the mamasan, boss and owner

 

[markkennedy]

Always trust your spidey senses, there's always another spa, another day, another whatever. Life is too long and the universe too big and complex and beautiful to take a chance on an unknown unknown. Especially in the Spring City area, within five minutes you can be nude with another chick in another place.

When I go to a place and there is LE say in the lot, if it's a strip mall, mostly I ignore them. Police love to sit in strip mall. If it's a one building shop, of course keep driving, unless other factors. There is a place I frequent weekly or more, is a single building but also at a very very busy intersection, I often see the police parked there, right in front of the store, facing the traffic light. Trying to catch drug dealers taking the back way into town and blowing the light or playing their "music" too loud or speeding or whatever else opens up a Terry stop. I just wave at them, sometimes it's one I know, and I shoot the shit, before heading in. Once, I came OUT of there, happy as fsck of course after an especially good session, and there was their truck! It was a shock since it was super late at night and there usually aren't any human beings within a thousand feet, but there it was lol... what a shitty surprise.

More than anything, if they are there, they are surveilling, after a formal complaint. Most complaints, according to a pal in a department down there near one of our favorite spas, involve noise or open past curfew. Most townships will give the business license but have curfew for when the place has to close. Police don't usually get involved in this, it's between code enforcement and the company, but sometimes in a smaller township the police are called. Noise is more likely, mongers playing music too loud, loud mufflers, or fights or arguments outside. Other than these, a place that doesn't cause a ruckus could be open for a thousand years with no problem.

It's extremely difficult for a prosecution of a spa customer. Unless you are being serviced and LE personally witnesses, everything else is heresay and circumstantial at best. Just remind anyone talking to you that you will discuss anything they like when your attorney arrives, and that you would like to contact that person now before any more conversation, and also if I'm not under arrest I'm free to go have a nice day dude. These days, the LE agencies want that sweet sweet Uncle Sugar money from DHS for "human trafficking", the flavor of the month for the past twenty months. They don't give a fsck about you, unless again they witness you doing an actual thing. Be calm, be clear, and invoke your rights; inform them that you are recording this interaction, and then do that.

 

[Lioneldawg]

What MarkKennedy said!

 

[MetsFan20]

What’s the big deal, you’re just there for a massage, right, right…..RIGHT???