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Barbie Bandits "Down The Wrong Road"
MSNBC/Newsweek ^ | March 6, 2007 | Rachel Pomerance and Arian Campo-Flores

Posted on 03/07/2007 6:13:50 AM PST by JoeGar

Enter the Shooter Alley strip club in Doraville, Ga., and you'll find plenty of naked young women entertaining their male clients, writhing and shaking only inches away from their faces. It was there that two dancers, Ashley Miller (known as "Adrienne") and Heather Johnston (who went by "Charlie"), met recently and became fast friends. The pairing proved ill-fated. Both were reportedly on a destructive tear. Johnston, 19, was heavily using drugs, according to a fellow stripper at the club. And Miller, 18, had struck up with a reputed drug dealer. The two reached a nadir last week when they robbed a bank in Acworth, Ga.
Miller and Johnston became a media sensation. Caught on a security camera wearing designer shades and giggling as they made off with the loot, they became known as the "Barbie Bandits." They were so sloppy that cops cracked the case in two days, arresting Miller, Johnston, the bank teller—who police say was in cahoots with the two—and Miller's male companion, who allegedly hatched the plot. Now the four face a mix of theft and drug-related charges. But the most intriguing question remains: How did two girls who grew up in comfortable middle-class homes with a wealth of opportunity wind up as exotic dancers and accused crooks?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bandits; barbie; hohos; johnston; miller; skanks; stippers; strippers; whitetrash; yathink
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To: albie

no youtube videos of their pole-dancing yet?


21 posted on 03/07/2007 6:33:16 AM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: albie

I really can't make any kind of informed judgement on this case until I see some photographs...


22 posted on 03/07/2007 6:36:28 AM PST by Paisan
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To: JoeGar
How did two girls who grew up in comfortable middle-class homes with a wealth of opportunity wind up as exotic dancers and accused crooks?

trying to figure out how to pay for college? i knew a number of strippers in college that that was the only way they could pay. trying to run a full classload with homework etc takes up too much time. you can't work a full time job. so they found that they could work one night a week and make $1,000. unfortunately, once they started, most of them fell into the clutch of the lifestyle associated with it (drugs, sex, etc)
of all of them i knew, only one managed to finish college while stripping. she graduated with no loans, and a small stock portfolio.
23 posted on 03/07/2007 6:36:45 AM PST by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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To: JoeGar
Ashley Miller (known as "Adrienne") and Heather Johnston (who went by "Charlie"),

Their real names are better than their stripper names.

24 posted on 03/07/2007 6:39:15 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: JoeGar

The new Thelma & Louise, how special is that?


25 posted on 03/07/2007 6:39:30 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Madeline Albright ZaPeezda, (Duncan Hunter in 08))
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To: JoeGar
How did two girls who grew up in comfortable middle-class homes with a wealth of opportunity wind up as exotic dancers and accused crooks?

Lousy parents! Plain and simple.

26 posted on 03/07/2007 6:40:54 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: atomicpossum

Are they Rudy or Romney voters?

There Dem's if they vote and if not they are just apolitical nail filers.


27 posted on 03/07/2007 6:42:29 AM PST by bilhosty (to hell with ABCNNBCBS)
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To: absolootezer0
you can't work a full time job.

Sure you can. I did. All the way to a Masters in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelors in Aeronautical Engineering. All it takes is discipline. Then again, nobody would pay me to strip, either......

28 posted on 03/07/2007 6:42:52 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: MaryFromMichigan

Choosing stripping to make money isn't just a "bad choice" -- working in MacDonald's instead of the Gap is a "bad choice."
Choosing to undress in front of drunken men is immoral, sinful for some, stupid, submissive to exploitation, and dangerous.
They took some time to "wander off the path," and their parents wouldn't dare admit how neglectful they were.


29 posted on 03/07/2007 6:44:22 AM PST by fd10801 (If I don't know about it, it's not important)
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To: JoeGar

Can't wait un til they drive off the cliff in a suicide pact!


30 posted on 03/07/2007 6:46:32 AM PST by Doc Savage ("You couldn't tame me, but you taught me.................")
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To: albie
"Properly raised kids don't rob" Agree, "cheat" Agree "and strip" Gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. I'm personally very close to an exception to your theory. Youth and a craving for excitement can be strong motivators. Stripping does not automatically equal a deficiency of character.
31 posted on 03/07/2007 6:47:34 AM PST by T.Smith
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To: fd10801

Yes. The fact that the Mom referred to the crimes they committed as a "bad choice" gave me the impression that the girl wasn't raised with the idea of right and wrong, but rather good choices versus bad ones.


32 posted on 03/07/2007 6:49:43 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Thermalseeker

ok.. i'll ammend.. most people can't. :)
i couldn't. but then, i had an extra 20 or so hours a week of practices on top of my classload.


33 posted on 03/07/2007 6:51:40 AM PST by absolootezer0 (stop repeat offenders - don't re-elect them!)
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To: JoeGar
Most of the time the parents are to blame. Neither of these girls were probably accountable for their actions or behaviors. Im sure their parents were lacking in enforcing discipline - especially the father. It is a consistent theme in the supernanny show that a lazy/uninvolved father leads to undisciplined children.
34 posted on 03/07/2007 6:51:52 AM PST by sasafras (Multiculturalism is a solvent invented by the left to destroy our culture and end our history)
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To: JoeGar

You Go Girl!....(to jail!)


35 posted on 03/07/2007 6:54:03 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo ("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
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To: JoeGar
I knew the parents would come out and say it wasn't the girls' fault, it was the guys who put them up to it.

However, I found this interesting:

Miller, 18, wasn't strong academically but had a big heart and volunteered at a nursing home, says her mother, Joy Miller.

Wonder if this was recently or in the past, and the likelihood that she was volunteering to have access to prescription meds?
36 posted on 03/07/2007 6:58:19 AM PST by NorthFlaRebel
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To: JoeGar

No kidding. Lots of pillows to bite before Nursing 101.


37 posted on 03/07/2007 7:00:07 AM PST by paddles
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To: sasafras
Most of the time the parents are to blame. Neither of these girls were probably accountable for their actions or behaviors.

Both of these "girls" were absolutely accountable for their actions and behavior, just as their parents are accountable for whatever decisions they made in raising them. EVERY adult is accountable for their behavior, barring mental retardation. These "girls" made conscious decisions and followed them through, knowing they were illegal and wrong.

38 posted on 03/07/2007 7:03:02 AM PST by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: JoeGar

But the most intriguing question remains: How did two girls who grew up in comfortable middle-class homes with a wealth of opportunity wind up as exotic dancers and accused crooks?




Did either comfortable middle-class home have father present?


39 posted on 03/07/2007 7:05:21 AM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: albie

The perfect parents again, great. I refuse to let these girls off the hook for their poor choices but, sometimes even the best families have problem children. I am 43 yrs. old. In my ENTIRE family there has only been 2 divorces, and I am including extended family here. I do not have any step relatives. Most of us are college graduates and went to private schools. In fact I can't think of one of us who wasn't raised by a stay at home mom. Yet, I have one cousin, my God daughter in fact, who went completely wild when she hit her teens. Out of 12 of us grandchildren. Yes, she did have 2 children out of wedlock and got caught up with drugs and it pained all of us. Thankfully, she fought her way out of it, went back to school, has a great job and is raising her children.


40 posted on 03/07/2007 7:11:41 AM PST by panthermom (DUNCAN HUNTER 2008)
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