Posted on 03/28/2009 12:02:27 PM PDT by lainie
Vince Shlomi, an infomercial salesman with a penchant for slanging in the vain of Ginsu, The Clapper, Life Alert and other such time and money (or life) saving multi-purpose device slicksters was involved in an incident involving a hooker he courted at a nightclub in Florida, February 7th.
The Smoking Gun was first to report this story March 27th.
Best known for his sales pitch for the Shamwow, the product which claims to be able extract large quantities of liquid spills created by common accidents around the home (or wherever accidental spills occur), Shlomi has created a dubious reputation promoting with his break-neck speed style of infomercial selling. The Shamwow, if nothing else, had created public interest in various medias. From the catchy Youtube videos (see link) to the blogosphere and their many entertaining comment threads, the Shamwow has been called a sham by many consumers, created by speculation about the authenticity of the claims made by Shlomi.
The full police report indicates Shlomi, 44, offered $1,000 to the woman after she "propositioned him for straight sex" while in his room at a South Beach, Florida hotel. The affidavit reports that the woman then bit his tongue "and would not let go" resulting in his reaction to punch her multiple times in the face, causing fractures and lacerations.
In the end, neither party was prosecuted in the case, according to TMZ.
Indian proverb:
“These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.”
A “...hooker he courted...?” You do not court hookers, slick. You court the girl next door. Whores are simply paid. If this clown had stuck to courting a girl, he might not have wound up in the slam!
What’s up with the headset commo, anyway? I always wondered that.
Do not question Sham Wow Guy! I dunno. He’s just SO BUSY I guess.
Has it been confirmed that the hooker was in fact of the female gender?
The jokes will write themselves.
“She was made in Germany and you know they only make good stuff there!”
Wow, it costs $1000 to play hide the Shlomi?
from the looks of things, i think the article got it backwards. it looks like he must have bit her tongue and wouldn’t let go, and she went apesh!t on his face...
p>The pics of her (couldnt have been taken at the same time) don’t show a mark at all.
I thought that Sasha was a guy’s name in most of the places in the world where the name is common.
Uhh...oh. Nevermind.
Luckily it was just his tongue. Could have been a Bobbitt moment.
BTW I like him, waaaaay better than Billy Mays.
In the US it’s certainly more often a girl’s name. For example, one of the young residents of the White House. I had a female college classmate named Sasha as well.
She’s happy thinking about the book she is going to write. “How I soaked the sham-wow guy.”
“You’re gonna spend $1000 on dinner and drinks each month anyway.”
Probably because they were taken 3 years apart.
Those pics are from 2008 and 2005 as stated. Not recent.
What’s up with the headset commo, anyway? I always wondered that.
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