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Sex worker’s dark SF tale: a punch, a narrow escape and a fiery wreck
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | August 30, 2018 | Evan Sernoffsky

Posted on 08/31/2018 6:09:58 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The woman sipped from a can of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, feeling carefree as she walked along Leavenworth Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. She thought she’d been invited out to celebrate her birthday.

Instead, she said, her former pimp crept up from behind and dropped her with a roundhouse punch.

Two men heaved her into a car trunk and they were off, forcing the woman to claw for her life in the dark as the vehicle careened along crowded city streets. Her life as a sex worker was dangerous, but now it had turned potentially deadly.

Soon police were in pursuit across the Bay Bridge. Minutes later the car would slam into a pole in a fiery, fatal wreck.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: pimps; prostitution
But before the deadly crash, the woman in the trunk remembered an episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that informed viewers about emergency trunk latches.


I gotta watch Oprah more often. Giving life saving tips to the black women of America. Quite a service. Anyhow they could make a movie out of this event which is just an average day in the liberal Bay Area.

1 posted on 08/31/2018 6:09:58 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

I saw that wreck, not when it happened but after the police, fire, and ambulances had arrived. Around MacArthur Boulevard where it crosses San Pablo Avenue on the Oakland Emeryville border. I saw the scene from about a block away, and I made sure to avoid it. I never saw so many police fire and emergency vehicles in one place, so I looked on the internet when I got home to see what it was.


2 posted on 08/31/2018 6:20:56 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: artichokegrower

I grew up with something different: “A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty “Hi Yo Silver!” The Lone Ranger!”

Better times than this.


3 posted on 08/31/2018 6:21:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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To: artichokegrower

Having a don’t give a *hit moment. No crocodile tears.


4 posted on 08/31/2018 6:21:50 AM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: artichokegrower

Moral:

Do not live in San Francisco. You’ll get killed while drinking lemonade


5 posted on 08/31/2018 6:25:14 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: boomop1

It’s easy to feel that way if you know any of them personally. They will be rescued from that deadly life by good-hearted people and then they will go right back to it.


6 posted on 08/31/2018 6:27:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: artichokegrower

I see a new corporate marketing campaign in the making....

“Mike’s Hard Lemonade, the choice of Ho’s everywhere!”


7 posted on 08/31/2018 6:40:01 AM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Streets Of San Francisco

Tonight’s Episode:

Hard Lemonade


8 posted on 08/31/2018 6:43:55 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: wally_bert

I’d entitle the episode “Lemonade Ho”.


9 posted on 08/31/2018 10:26:17 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (I posit that there IS something left worth fighting for.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I was thinking along the classic title theme.

Yours is funny and appropriate too.


10 posted on 08/31/2018 10:43:14 AM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: AppyPappy

I have known a lot.
Some get out of the business with a little help, others won’t.


11 posted on 08/31/2018 10:48:11 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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I’d entitle the episode “Lemonade Ho”.

Lemonade Ho: Lured by a Bag o' Blow.

12 posted on 08/31/2018 12:23:32 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Interrupt Obama and reporters are racist; interrupt Trump and they're heroes. --Mark Levin)
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To: artichokegrower

Didnt remember ophrah telling her not to do coke or be a sex worker...sad....sad....sad...


13 posted on 08/31/2018 8:40:40 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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