SPECIAL DELIVERY: “Kay” of Déjà Vu Showgirls performs inside a converted delivery truck that’s coming to Portland next month. IMAGE: LEILA NAVIDI / LAS VEGAS SUN

A so-called “stripper-mobile” that emerged briefly in Clark County, Nev., is now headed to Portland, proving that what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas.

Déjà Vu Showgirls and Little Darlings strip clubs, the promoters of the now-defunct stripper-mobile in Vegas, lured passersby up and down the Las Vegas Strip via loudspeaker for all of two weeks.

But they told Clark County commissioners in November they wanted to be “good neighbors,” the Las Vegas Sun reports. As such, the strip clubs put the brakes on their nightly stripper-mobile—a delivery truck with a Plexiglas cargo hold, a single pole inside and live, minimally clothed dancers, who performed while the truck was moving.

Apparently, however, promoters of the unique advertising tool think Oregon will be much more welcoming. The stripper-mobile is headed to California, then Portland, starting in mid-January. (This, despite the fact Déjà Vu’s nearest strip club to Portland is 115 miles up I-5 in Olympia, Wash. The nearest Little Darlings is even farther north in Seattle.)

“You can be naked up there on the street so long as you’re not aroused and not arousing anyone,” a proponent of the stripper-mobile told the Sun last week about heading to Oregon. That explanation from Déjà Vu marketing director Larry Beard is based on Oregon’s public indecency rules, which say “a person commits the crime of public indecency if while in, or in view of, a public place the person performs an act of exposing the genitals of the person with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of the person or another person.”

The Oregon Constitution has liberal free-speech protections that would block public officials from effectively banning the stripper-mobile just because they, or their constituents, are offended. That would be considered content-based discrimination, which is not allowed. Officials could block the stripper-mobile only if they could articulate and demonstrate negative secondary effects on the community.

But the stripper-mobile is not automatically in the clear, says Dave Fidanque, executive director of the Oregon chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. “The fact that it’s expression doesn’t mean it’s protected,” says Fidanque.

Portland’s City Attorney’s Office didn’t have ready answers to questions about the city’s authority to regulate the stripper-mobile. Go figure.

Yet opponents would probably have a tough time distinguishing between the stripper-mobile and Portland’s annual Naked Bike Ride, a summertime ritual in which thousands of naked cyclists parade through the streets.

Anyone who wanted to prevent the stripper-mobile’s arrival this winter would have to answer these questions. “How is it different from the Naked Bike Ride?” Fidanque says. “And, if it is, why?”

Or they could just look to Oregon’s stricter seat-belt laws. If a seat with a belt were available in the front cab while a dancer was performing, police could have reason to stop the stripper-mobile, says spokesman Gregg Hastings of the Oregon State Police.

The Sun reports the stripper-mobile dancers will perform nude in Portland. Beard did not return multiple phone calls seeking comment.

“It sounds to me their purpose is to get free publicity,” Fidanque adds. “And they’re apparently pretty effective.”

Touché.