Get yer streetwalking permit here!
From 8:15 pm to 6:00 am each day, prostitution is legal in Germany, where working call girls staff brothels, sauna clubs, and other such establishments. In the city of Bonn, which, uh, "boasts" around 200 prostitutes, an average of 20 freelancers go cruising each night, picking up clients on the street and heading to garage-like structures called "consummation areas" the city put up especially for that purpose. They've thought of everything, those Germans! Girls in the various brothel-like establishments have always been subject to a prostitution tax, but streetwalkers, apparently, haven't being paying. Now, though, the city has a way to make things fair for everyone: a parking meter for prostitutes
. The meter looks just like the sidewalk ticket-dispensers you've probably used in numerous cities to park your car, but for about $8.70, this one dispenses a pass allowing the holder to cruise for ...
