Via Drudge and Local 6 News:
Women involved in prostitution in Daytona Beach, Fla., have reportedly armed themselves and are searching for a serial killer behind the slayings of three residents, according to a Local 6 News report.
“Rather than run from the man police labeled a serial killer, streetwalkers here in Daytona Beach along Ridgewood Avenue say they are seeking the serial killer out,” Local 6 reported Tarik Minor said. “They believe the man responsible for murdering three women here is someone they have come in contact with.”
“We will get him first,” streetwalker Tonya Richardson said. “Yeah, we are going to get him first. When we find him, he is going to be sorry. It is as simple as that.”
Richardson said she and other women are carrying weapons on the streets after Laquetta Gunther, Julie Green and Iwana Patton were found dead in the city.
“I carry a switch blade with me now,” Richardson said. “Everyone else does now too.”
“We will get him first,” streetwalker Tonya Richardson said. “Yeah, we are going to get him first. When we find him, he is going to be sorry. It is as simple as that.”
The women are apparently teaming up and promising their own kind of justice, the Local 6 News report said.
Last week, a Florida Department of Law Enforcement criminal profiler said a serial killer committed the three unsolved murders.
Special Agent Tom Davis said he believes the suspect is a male who targeted the three victims because of other stressors in his life, according to a police statement.
No evidence so far indicates any of the women was taken against her will, according to the report.
In recent days, local ministers have also hit Daytona streets warning prostitutes about the killer, Local 6 News reported.
“We are asking them to buddy up,” Street ministry spokeswoman Denise Horsman said. “To stay in lighted areas and get off the street if they can. If they can’t, to do anything they can.”
…Like, you know, kill the dude where he stands (or lays, whatever the case may be).
Which reminds me: in the underappreciated Paul Newman / Ken Wahl flick Fort Apache The Bronx, Pam Grier plays a doped-out prostitute who kept a razor blade under her tongue (or in her afro) and used it to slice the necks of her johns, whom she they robbed. Or not. Maybe she did it for kicks.
None of which has muchh to do with this story—just thought Quentin Tarantino might be tired of trolling Japanese anime sites for movie ideas and I’d help him get back to his roots. Like, say, a remake of Caged Heat, maybe?
He can thank me later.
(h/t Craig C)
Isn’t prostitution illegal there?
Its funny to read about local ministers telling prostitutes to buddy up.
Not that I find their plight humorous, but instead the humor is in the strange dichotomy. Did the minister also tell them that they should stop being prostitutes and offer to help them find a different job? Or was the minister like, “Come as you are.”? And as a result, there were more people at church next Sunday? (Many Christians have learned that the best way to minister to people is not to condemn them– even if they are doing things that are themselves condemnable.)
I guess that’s totally offtopic.
I always enjoy reading about vigilante justice, even if it is illegal. Murder might be immoral, but when they get this guy, I’m going to cheer.
I also find interesting the police guy was saying, that basically they think he’s just stressed out. I’d tend to think that there’s a difference between shouting “Murder, Death, Kill!” when you are frustrated and angry, and actually wanting to & really going through with killing someone. I guess if he makes it to court he’ll end up in an asylum for being ‘unbalanced’ and ‘overstressed’ rather than going to the chair for being a murdering sonufabitch.
I have to keep reminding myself that I am a barbarian at heart & need to learn to control my impulses.
Would like to see those future Tarantino films, though.
Like people need one more reason not to fuck prostitutes.
As the Instapundit says, Like a pack, not a herd.
TW: of </i>course<i> this may not be what he had in mind.
I’m sorry, I should appreciate the story. But it’s been a long week, and I’ve totally run out of irony.
Sorry. Maybe tomorrow.
so—IS there whore’s gold in Big Whiskey?
It’s so nice living 60 miles from Daytona Beach. Drove down this weekend for some copycat action. The first two were no problem. The third one was like the Pam Grier character. Luckily, when she started talking about “the Snake” I high-tailed it.
I thought he was dead.
The standard: $40.
X-tra BJ: $30.
Answer to the name “Monica”: $10.
The look on his face when she squeezes off two 9mm hollow-points into his nutsack as he’s reaching for the rope in his glove compartment: priceless.
I think I saw this movie. Was Linnea Quigley in it? Or was it one of the Angel sequels?
TW: her, as in “From her cold, dead hands.”
Looks like it’s time to move again. Tampa’s not bad and it’s just down the road.
So….. I’m the only one that find’s it vaguely amusing that the woman ministering to the whores is named Horsman?
It’s probably not that amusing.
I’m probably just bored.
TW: alone
Fuckin’ crystal ball is what this thing is.
“A pack, not a herd” was Instapundit’s old slogan. Now it’s “An army of Johns” or something like that.
“HOOKERS WITH GUNS!!!”
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Spamword, “hot.” You can NOT make this shit up.
You know, having taken the time to register an account here, I don’t have to enter a Spamword. But every once in a while, I can’t help wondering if I’m not somehow missing out. Then I realize that I’m not, and I go about my business.
I wonder if Velvet Jones wrote a chapter on self defense in his seminal work, How To Be A Ho?
Like people need one more reason not to fuck prostitutes.
I believe that’s “……….not to make sweet sweet love to prostitutes.”
Armed whores. Mistress Quickly with a gun. Novel idea.
Advantage: Gets the pimps outta the picture.
Disadvantage: Scares the Johns, but protects the whore.
Times sure change.
Back in the late 50s, when I was a lad, all we had to worry about, was being rolled by the nearby pimps; now you have to worry about being robbed and maybe shot too.
Rolled, robbed and maybe shot; overall this is going to effect the sex trade in a negative way.
You can goddamwell bank on it.
I don’t know Carl. Cheating death is a popular sport among the youngsters these days. Maybe getting a humsy daisy from an armed whore could become an event in the X Games.
Anyone else find this staement absolutely bizzare?
By the way, I think your X-games suggestion is money, Al.
MJ,
If you call Stern, I’ll call Johnny Knoxville.
Talked to a cop early last week after I had a homeless guy arested for taking an afternoon nap in my truck, the cop said of the serial killer “…at least he’s cleaning the streets of the whores. He’s doing Daytona a service. Besides, they’re the ones who got into the car volunterilly with the guy.”
Most stock car races follow standard NASCAR qualifying to set their field of cars, but when you’re the richest prize and biggest fame race like the Daytona 500, you can do things your own way…