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Strippers flown to party (Minnesota Vikings booze cruise)
Sun Herald ^ | October 15, 2005

Posted on 10/17/2005 12:35:03 AM PDT by dennisw

Posted on Sat, Oct. 15, 2005

Strippers flown to party

Details emerge in Vikings' sexcapades

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Strippers flew in for the party. Football players pulled up in limos. As a pair of chartered boats eased onto Lake Minnetonka, booze started flowing and, according to crew members, a sex party began.

Investigators now believe that the strippers from Atlanta, Florida and elsewhere who joined the party apparently work for a high-class escort or call girl service that caters to professional athletes, two law-enforcement officials said.

The party was a far cry from the typical gathering handled by Al & Alma's Supper Club and Charter Cruises, a mom-and-pop outfit in Mound, Minn., that one cop involved in the case called a "Perkins on the lake."

When a group of Minnesota Vikings players chose to party amid bartenders and hostesses accustomed to working family functions and company outings, the result was a major uproar.

Any criminal charges that come out of complaints about lewd behavior on the boats are likely to be minor, a law-enforcement official directly involved in the investigation said Thursday.

But as details about the Oct. 6 party emerge, the Vikings reel in a stream of negative national publicity.

The blowup stems at least in part from the choice to hire the boats and crews from Al & Alma's, two law-enforcement officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

"Basically, it's a crime of stupidity," one of the officials said. 'We got naive young kids catering, watching 350-pound athletes" engaged in lewd conduct, said one of the officials. "There are probably only two or three other cities in the country where this incident would have happened and not made news or generated a complaint. I'm thinking Los Angeles, New York and possibly Chicago. That stuff doesn't go down well here."

Vikings owner embarrassed

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf is angry and embarrassed over accounts of drunkenness and sexual misbehavior by his players on a charter cruise, and said Friday the team will now have a conduct code.

Wilf, in his first comments since the boat party last week, said he has apologized to the governor. He also has spoken with his players, who will be held to a code demanding "high standards, high morals and success."

Stephen Doyle, a lawyer representing the boats' owners, has said cornerback Fred Smoot, formerly of Mississippi State, paid for one of the cruises on Lake Minnetonka. A total of about 90 people were present, Doyle said. They returned to shore more than two hours early when crew members complained of wild, lewd behavior.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: nfl; sexparty; vikings
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1 posted on 10/17/2005 12:35:03 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: GeorgiaDawg32; Only1choice____Freedom; VRWCmember; Rakkasan1; Moral Hazard; pompelmous; ...

If you want on or off my Vikqueens ping list, please contact me by Freep mail.

2 posted on 10/17/2005 12:43:34 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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To: dennisw

It is the job of strippers/call girls to find idiots with too much money and redistribute it. Of course when word got of out a group of idiots this idiotic with this much money, "strippers" came from near and far. I surprised the town was not overwhelmed by the number of "strippers" looking to cash in on these idiots.


3 posted on 10/17/2005 12:46:10 AM PDT by JLS
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To: Paleo Conservative
A class act as always.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY CASE


4 posted on 10/17/2005 12:51:13 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Kozak
:P

How true.

5 posted on 10/17/2005 12:57:39 AM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("We don't want a Supreme Court justice just like George W. Bush. We can do better.")
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To: dennisw

Strippers flown to party



I guess they can aford that, we have to catch our own around here, eels work best in the spring, and we call them Rockfish

sure can't aford them at the market


6 posted on 10/17/2005 1:36:56 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: everyone

One reason I have zero interest in professional sports. Way too many of these "men" just have no class.

The idea that the Vike players will now be held to a strict moral code is too funny for words.

(Any pics of the babes? How about some Cowgirls, then?)


7 posted on 10/17/2005 1:43:44 AM PDT by California Patriot
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To: California Patriot

Yep, I agree. I constantly find myself reminding my kids that our local team isn't the "Tampa Bay Bucs"...it's the "Malcolm Glazer Bucs".


8 posted on 10/17/2005 2:00:03 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: sure_fine
>>Strippers flown to party

>I guess they can aford that, we have to catch our own around here, eels work best in the spring, and we call them Rockfish sure can't aford them at the market

Not "stripers," silly, "strippers!"

< ]B^)

9 posted on 10/17/2005 3:12:23 AM PDT by Erasmus ("They caught my honey makin' booze, but you know I love her still")
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To: dennisw
"He also has spoken with his players, who will be held to a code demanding "high standards, high morals and success."

Let's be honest here, that's all any pro football wants out of the players. And really, can you imagine someone telling the Raiders they are demand from them "High standards, high morals, and success?" That's just too funny!

10 posted on 10/17/2005 3:20:58 AM PDT by Enterprise (The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
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To: sure_fine

They sell local rockfish here and call it Red Snapper.

Go figure.


11 posted on 10/17/2005 3:26:30 AM PDT by oceanperch (I love my Labradors Kolbe, Porter, Hunter and Yol)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Thanks for the ping.

The rumor here is that the media went downtown to try to find out who provided entertainment and the local strippers gave them the information because they were mad.

'What, we weren't good enough for those guys? They had to fly in out of State strippers?'

Who knew there was a code of conduct?


12 posted on 10/17/2005 3:28:50 AM PDT by terilyn
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To: dennisw
Glad to see this helped their performance on the football field.

Minnesota:
Won 1
Lost 4
Tied 0

13 posted on 10/17/2005 3:33:16 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Erasmus; sure_fine

Well Rockfish is not to pricey here.

If the Vikings can fly in Strippers.
I can fly you in some cheap Rockfish.


14 posted on 10/17/2005 3:34:15 AM PDT by oceanperch (I love my Labradors Kolbe, Porter, Hunter and Yol)
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To: California Patriot
How 'bout them hooters?


15 posted on 10/17/2005 3:35:33 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: oceanperch

They sell local rockfish here and call it Red Snapper.



that would be false advertisement, like what happened to thos FB players that thought they were having rockfish for dinner....



lol


16 posted on 10/17/2005 3:35:35 AM PDT by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: Erasmus; sure_fine

Well Rockfish is not to pricey here.

If the Vikings can fly in Strippers.
I can fly you in some cheap Rockfish.


17 posted on 10/17/2005 3:36:37 AM PDT by oceanperch (I love my Labradors Kolbe, Porter, Hunter and Yol)
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To: dennisw

And to boot, the Vikings flew back to "Atlanta, Florida and elsewhere" with the strippers showing up to play Chicago yesterday.


18 posted on 10/17/2005 3:37:01 AM PDT by ImpBill (Nothing More!)
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To: ImpBill

This story may have real "legs" if the girls came from the Gold Club and related joints..the Atlanta strip joint empire that a bunch of NBA players ..like Patrick Ewing, got messed up with a while back. These are run by the mob...and if there is any hint of a connection to gamblers, well..


19 posted on 10/17/2005 3:42:02 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: dennisw
"Any criminal charges that come out of complaints about lewd behavior on the boats are likely to be minor, a law-enforcement official directly involved in the investigation said Thursday."

Well, maybe. I suspect there may be some Federal Statute involved. And this is only theorizing, but start with conspiracy to transport persons across state lines to engage in criminal acts. And it could mushroom from there quite rapidly.

20 posted on 10/17/2005 3:43:11 AM PDT by Enterprise (The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
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