Tart card crackdown continues
London police continue their crackdown on prostitutes' cards in phone booths, often using the cards to get prostitutes evicted or even deported. They have also arrested about 60 "card boys" or "tart carders," who distribute the cards to area phone booths for a fee. Local authorities have pushed British Telecom to disconnect phone numbers listed on cards. The Guardian reports, "Westminster council wants to rid the borough of prostitutes' cards as part of its initiative to make London's west end more family friendly. They are keen to avoid a repeat of events last summer where school children were removing sex workers' cards from phone boxes and swapping them in the same way as Pokemon cards."
