Dad goes on rampage in topless bar - Man says he did it to protect teen daughter

Associated Press ^ | December 18, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

This is an update, with more detail, of a previous story....

Police: Stripper's Dad Goes On Rampage At Club

[friendly]

This guy should be given an award. I guarantee that this place is a center for prostitution of under-age girls which would have undoubtedly exploited his daughter if he had not shown up.

[American in Israel]

Nah, the guy is a jerk. Why not wait till the night his daughter dances and then call the cops? He could have had the place shut down. Instead he barges in and slashes the furniture.

It turns out his daughter did not even work there. What a Maroon...

[Jerry_M]

This guy spends more than half of his daughters life in jail, and then is surprised that she becomes a stripper?

Maybe if he had spent those years being a parent she would be looking for another line of work.

[this_ol_patriot]

Clad in camouflage, Lee Wayne Lawrence burst through the doors of Maximus Gentleman's Club...

Three word name and WAYNE in the middle..a ticking timebomb if I ever saw one.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

*** "We don't run a whorehouse here,"***

Yeah, right.

[friendly]

"It turns out his daughter did not even work there."

That is the story given by the pimps, oops I meant owners, of this joint. I don't believe it for a second.

[#3Fan]

The time to raise a child is between the ages of 0 and 18, not when they are grown up. He's a little late.

[laredo44]

This guy should be given an award.

The guy is mental - no award is deserved.

I guarantee that this place is a center for prostitution of under-age girls which would have undoubtedly exploited his daughter if he had not shown up.

Didn't comprehend much of the story, did you.

[friendly]

Only a naive person believes a seedy strip club is not also a location where prostitution, loan sharking, etc, do not also prosper.

This is why the Mafia and other mobsters run these dives in the first place.

[laredo44]

Only a naive person believes a seedy strip club is not also a location where prostitution, loan sharking, etc, do not also prosper.

You didn't say that. You said, "prostitution of under-age girls." You said, "would have undoubtedly exploited his daughter."

There's no indication the daughter was under-age. She sought them out seriously undermining any "exploitation" hyperbole.

[friendly]

There's no indication the daughter was under-age.

I quit. Why am I wasting my time? Geez you didn't even read the article.

To quote from the article: "Mr. Robinson, the club manager, said he turned Ms. Lawrence down as a dancer because her identification, listing her age as 18, appeared to be fake."

Please don't post to me ever again.

[Djarum]

This guy should be given an award. I guarantee that this place is a center for prostitution of under-age girls which would have undoubtedly exploited his daughter if he had not shown up.

You laud the destruction of property and assault perpetrated by a deranged individual, then offer supposition in his defense. Are you opposed to the rule of law, or do you only disregard it when blinded by ideology?

[Aracelis]

This guy is certainly no saint, but I admire his outrage...even if it is a little late. I'm not so sure I wouldn't do the same thing if I found out one of my daughters was attempting to work in a joint like this one.

[laredo44]

Careful, friendly's screen appelation appears to be chosen with an eye toward the tongue-in-cheek. At least s/he didn't select "logical". After asserting the strip club was a haven for under-age prostitution, friendly cites that the manager turned down the daughter's request for employment because she was under 21 and appeared to have a fake ID. I presume Texas has a prohibition of prostitution, so what would constitute "under-age" prostitution?

[DB]

"I guarantee that this place is a center for prostitution of under-age girls which would have undoubtedly exploited his daughter if he had not shown up."

You contradict yourself. If they were bent on "exploiting his daughter" why didn't they hire her? Instead they turned her down.

As far as reading comprehension goes, what her dad did didn't change her situation at all other than if she wants to see him she's going to have to come during visiting hours. She wasn't there and was already turned down for the job when he did his deed. He certainly won't be much of a dad for her in prison…

[Prodigal Son]

Clad in camouflage, Lee Wayne Lawrence burst through the doors of Maximus Gentleman's Club... Three word name and WAYNE in the middle..a ticking timebomb if I ever saw one.

Hey cool, somebody else is into my theory of middle names for nutcases and death row inmates. My theory is when the media wants to mark a man as a loon they post his entire name, particularly if that middle name is Wayne, Lamar, Lee etc. This will usually be accompanied by the one driver's license photo of you looking like you just spent the last several years hacking babies to death with an axe. If they invoke the dreaded "nickname" you're finished- ie Lee Wayne "Snuffy" Lawrence.

I get a kick out of kidding my uncle (a two time convict) that he should never kill anyone because his name is "Calvin Lamar 'Bingo' ---(last name)--- ;-)

[PaulJ]

The guy is mental - no award is deserved.

You're probably right, but I'll guarantee you one thing; it's going to be very difficult for his daughter to find a job in any strip club in that area. He may win after all.

[vetvetdoug]

Prostitution in Wichita Falls has been a fact for over thirty years that I know. The prostitutes used to line Flood Street and Main and on a Saturday night there may be as many as 20 of them in sight. The military base nearby gives the women a constant source of johns. I watched one of my high school classmates get caught up in that cycle of prostitution by a pimp who used drugs to get her; believe me,there is no shortage of pimps in Wichita Falls, Texas.

[friendly]

Prostitution in Wichita Falls has been a fact for over thirty years that I know. The prostitutes used to line Flood Street and Main and on a Saturday night there may be as many as 20 of them in sight. The military base nearby gives the women a constant source of johns. I watched one of my high school classmates get caught up in that cycle of prostitution by a pimp who used drugs to get her; believe me,there is no shortage of pimps in Wichita Falls, Texas

Thank God, someone on this thread who has it right. There is a poster who carries on "the manager turned down the daughter's request for employment because she was under 21 and appeared to have a fake ID" who does not comprehend English.

In fact when the police arrived, the pimp-manager claimed he had never hired the girl and that "We don't run a whorehouse here," comments of microscopic veracity. If anyone has even the most minimal command of language, the article clearly states that the girls fake ID asserted she was 18, indicating to rational, non-demented readers that she was younger.

As for the father...He is obviously a lunatic, but he is still a father trying in his own primitive way to stop a small town whorehouse from recruiting his daughter. The police should investigate the "strip club" and release the dad. These small town criminal gangs generally pay off the cops however.