Says they are a "potential haven for prostitution, underage drinking, fights and robberies". Well, hell, 7-11's are too, but you're not closing them down are you?

They argue that it's hard to "enforce the law in private rooms". Tell me now it's not the bad singing, tell me.

Some opponents of the ban who testified before the vote argued that the private rooms offered poor singers a chance to sing a love song without fear of embarrassment.

"My voice is terrible," Walter Lei, a San Francisco bus driver, told the San Francisco Chronicle . "If I was singing here, everybody would run off."