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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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Joy Miller, who visited her daughter at the Cobb County jail on Sunday, says Ashley was coping as best she could and even talked about returning to school to study nursing.

Nursing school might have to wait.

1 posted on 03/07/2007 6:13:52 AM PST by JoeGar
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Ashley and Heather. How sweet.


2 posted on 03/07/2007 6:14:59 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: JoeGar

drugs?????? nursing school may not want her.


3 posted on 03/07/2007 6:17:09 AM PST by tioga
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To: JoeGar

MSM death watch.


4 posted on 03/07/2007 6:17:47 AM PST by ecomcon
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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?


Money and opportunity are a poor substitute for morals.


5 posted on 03/07/2007 6:18:31 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Duncan Hunter: pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-border control, pro-family)
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To: JoeGar

Where's my tissues? I think I'm gonna cry. (sarcasm!!)


6 posted on 03/07/2007 6:18:45 AM PST by blastdad51 (Proud father of an Enduring Freedom vet, and friend of a soldier lost in Afghanistan)
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To: RexBeach

When the late night ads come up for the girls gone wild videos, I find myself wondering how many parents are not only aware of that behavior but how many approve of it


7 posted on 03/07/2007 6:19:37 AM PST by pennboricua
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To: JoeGar

Are they Rudy or Romney voters?


8 posted on 03/07/2007 6:20:24 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: RexBeach

9 posted on 03/07/2007 6:20:42 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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She gets into drug debt and her dealer tells her to come up with the money FAST.

You gotta serve somebody.


10 posted on 03/07/2007 6:20:57 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: tioga

With multiple felonies a lot of places won't want them ... ever.


11 posted on 03/07/2007 6:22:02 AM PST by BunnySlippers (RUDY FOR PRESIDENT 2008)
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To: JoeGar

Bored suburban girls often crave the masculinity they find in urban black culture - but when they fail to distinguish between masculinity and thuggery it leads them to a bad end.


12 posted on 03/07/2007 6:24:38 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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Are they Rudy or Romney voters?

I hear they're both carbon-neutral...

13 posted on 03/07/2007 6:25:09 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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Man, I love those red cross pictures! :)


14 posted on 03/07/2007 6:25:30 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: JoeGar

According to one Mom, "She is a great kid. She's made a bad choice."

Many, many "bad choices".


15 posted on 03/07/2007 6:25:46 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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"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?"

Awwww. Poor things. Probably society's fault. WE failed them.

So, let's just give them probation. Then, five years from now we'll be asking, "How did two girls who grew up in comfortable middle-class homes with a wealth of opportunity wind up as exotic dancers, bank robbers, and accused murderers?

16 posted on 03/07/2007 6:28:20 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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"Miller started going out with Michael Chastang, 27, known as "Skinny," who Joy Miller describes as troubled. Her daughter, she says, wanted "to take him under her wings and make him all better."

Hmmmm. It appears that "Skinny" took her under his wings and made her worse.

%^&* happens.

17 posted on 03/07/2007 6:30:52 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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It was only a matter of time before the parents came out with the "she's really a great kid" BS. Properly raised kids don't rob, cheat and strip. Probably raised by a working Mom with the computer as her baby-sitter.


18 posted on 03/07/2007 6:31:00 AM PST by albie
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They are hardly barbies, either. More like ugly Bratz dolls on meth.


19 posted on 03/07/2007 6:32:28 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (RINO = Rudy Is Not Ours! Keep scrubbing, Rudy supporters, the blood won't come off.)
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20 posted on 03/07/2007 6:33:12 AM PST by Sax
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