kerb-crawling

When the kerb-crawling is banished, what happens to the street workers?

Sex Workers: Once again, what’s best for us? « Bound, Not Gagged 2009

I think there are some really good recommendations here, for instance, that it should be possible to prosecute a first offence of kerb-crawling, and that there should be greater powers for the police to close down premises.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

One central aspect of the disturbances in the mid-1990s was that local residents had become weary of the long-standing busy trade in ‘kerb-crawling’ prostitution along Lumb Lane which is one of its main traffic arteries.

I'd Stick To Attacking Christians If I Were You, Mate Laban 2006

I think there are some really good recommendations here, for instance, that it should be possible to prosecute a first offence of kerb-crawling, and that there should be greater powers for the police to close down premises.

Changing the law on prostitution 2008

He rarely hit us in the face because even in the world of kerb-crawling looks count, although of course there's a few that find black eyes attractive.

High Society Elton, Ben 2002

      Wigg had his own brush with authority in 1976 when the police charged him with kerb-crawling around Marble Arch. The charge was dropped after Chapman Pincher, a Fleet Street contact, told the court that Wigg drove around the area not to pick up women but the first editions of the morning papers.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

Worst of all, though, was his penchant for kerb-crawling around Baghdad.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

From 1 April the police will no longer need to establish that a man is "persistently" kerb-crawling before arresting him.

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

Changes to the law coming into effect on April 1 will remove a requirement for police to establish that a man is "persistently" kerb-crawling before arresting him.

icSolihull 2010

Changes to the law coming into effect on April 1 will remove a requirement for police to establish that a man is "persistently" kerb-crawling before arresting him.

mirror.co.uk - Home 2010