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Police raid novelty shop inside Layton Hills Mall

It's about time

Spencer Gifts has always been on the cutting edge of the strange. As far as I can see a whole story was pulled that I spent quite a bit of time commenting on. So I will try harder to paint between the lines. I realize that there is not a total Theocracy in Utah and that you have strong laws on what can be sold to Minors and I am all for that. Spencers is the closest thing to a legal Head Shop that you are going to get in a lot of places. If you want or need that kind of stuff order it on the Internet. Or if you can't do that and can't live without it move. It appears unlike where I live, you enforce Status Offenses, good for you and I mean that in a good way. My question is! Why would you even let a Minor in a Store where there where items sold in the store that the Minor cannot buy. You are either an Adult Store or an everybody store. A lot of the Minors are just looking, but should they be? Not so much I think. Spencers needs to clean up.

a genital...hmmn sounds fishy to me!

grow up utah,your young are brain washed.

Are you all kidding me? Spencers has been around for YEARS. And it's everywhere. In every mall in america. They sell the exact same merchandise in each of their stores. This is absolutely insane. The joke merchandise is *only* funny to 16-year-olds. Man... only in Utah.

I am sure the Police will uild a case on suspicion
with the Prosecuting Attorney on the Job
These Attorneys have an obligation to both parties
However they seem not to know that and innocent people are jailed

With the online comments about Blue Boutique vs what you can get if you are 15 at Spencers' stores, I was surprised it took this long. What about Fashion Place Mall location?

Unbelievable!!! If it isn't illegal how can the police raid the store?

Oh please. The Police didn't have enything better to do? Spencers has carried racy items since I was a boy. What else is new?

Shall the police also be raiding the 7-Eleven stores in Utah because of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue??

I love this state, and I love being LDS, but I'd forgotten how much I do *NOT* miss the puritanical sexual aspect of Utah culture.

Seems that a gestapo of sorts is alive and well in Davis county. This is one of too many stories coming from there that indicate the moral police are running rampant. What don't they get about "none of the items are illegal". They are obviously reacting on complaints from "bluenoses" in the community. Why? Obviously there is some sympatico on the part of police officials with these Puritan holdovers. If there would be some reason to believe these items in fact were sold to a minor then that would be different. But, it seems they will investigate that idea after holding a raid. Ridiculous!!!

Way to go Utah! Glad to see a State that enforces it's decency laws. Just because spencers has 'been around for years' doesen't make it right. Other States need to follow Utahs lead because many of their children are being 'brain washed' into believing that indecency is alright.

It's mind control, if you think about it. The state controlling exactly how you think by setting decency standards. One of the first posters nailed it... gestapo is alive and well in the USA.

What a load.

Freedom of speech anyone? If you don't like it don't shop there! "Someone think of the children!" The stuff is harmless, get a life.

And so it starts.....

Why do citizens across America assume Utah is full of idiots? Because stories like this hit the news wire. Grow up Utah on focus on crime, not triviality.

I'm one of those liberals that most Utahns hate, but I have to agree with the raid on Spencers. I grew up going to Spenecers and it has always been on the "edge" -- yet, last December when I was at the Fashion Place mall with a friend, we went to Spencers. We joked about all the kitschy items for sale, but we were shocked when we went further back and saw very ADULT items for sale, (think long vibrating things, and stuff to go in the back area and the like). I have no problem with these items being sold in the proper stores (ie: blue boutique, etc) where there is an adults only section. But to see them in a store in a mall where kids and young teenagers can see them, and possibly buy them, I'm against that.

I remember going into Spencer's years ago. Sure, they had some risque stuff, but nothing I thought was that bad.
For the first time in years I went into the Fashion Place location in passing fairly recently. Instead of having funny stuff, musical stuff (band posters), etc., it seemed as if the entire store had devolved into sexual products. So I turned around and left. I decided I would never go there again. No business from this guy, and if someone asked me about Spencer's, I'd fill them in on my opinion on the subject. The "battle" can be won as easily as that.

Once again, proof we live in a police state.

Yeah, this is lame, but it's not "only in Utah." Some states in the bible belt won't let you buy those kinds of things in any store. At least we have Blue Boutiques we can go to, right?