80-Something nabbed in Hooker Ring

[SammyBlue]

LINDENWOLD, N.J. - Police made a surprising discovery when they busted the alleged madam of a prostitution ring called "August Playmates": The woman running the show was an 80-year-old grandmother.

Authorities arrested Vera Tursi last month during a sting operation to crack down on prostitution rings posing as legal escort services. Police say Tursi ran the business from her two-bedroom apartment, taking $60 of every $160 she charged clients for one hour with a call girl.

Law enforcement officials say Tursi admitted her role in the business, saying she took it over a few years ago from her daughter, who had died. Police say Tursi told them she needed money to subsidize her Social Security checks.

Nice, huh? Resorting to being a madam to make ends meet for an 80 year old grandmother?

Want to get even more sick at how we treat our seniors? Click here and ready your barf bags!

[bluestateguy]

1. Free enterprise conservatives should support this

Where is the Heritage Foundation to lecture us about the virtues of the marketplace?

Crickets...

Wasn't Heidi Fleiss's old boss an old woman too? She did quite well for herself actually.

[SammyBlue]

2. Yeah, just think

If she didn't run the Hooker stable, she might have had to choose between eating dog food or getting medication.

As Harry Chapin put it in the song "There Only Was Choice."

"Step right up young lady. Your two hundred birthdays make you old if not senile/And we see the symptoms there in your rigor mortis smile/With your old folks eating dog food and your children eating paint/While the pirates own the flag and sell us sermons on restraint.

And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear/And still you will not answer with that message coming clear.
Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream/And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream?"

Wow. . .nothing's changed!!!

[wakeme2008]

14. Another Harry Chapin statement between songs at a concert

As late singer/songwriter Harry Chapin said, "You can't expect rich people to do much, because they're just holding onto their money, and you really can't expect poor people to do much, because they're struggling like hell to make do. It really comes down to people like you and I."

[Fridays Child]

3. In theory, you're right but, in reality, prostitution often victimizes...

...the women who practice it. Would that they were all like Jamie Lee Curtis in Trading Places--self confident, pragmatic, etc. But, of course, that's not the case.

[bluestateguy]

4. Then this is what you do

21 year old age limit
Government licensing and regulation
Mandatory STD testing every 6 months
All workers required to carry license, ID and test papers
Unionization for all workers in the business

[saltpoint]

6. I like your conditions, bluestateguy, and would add only that it should be

heavily taxed, with the proceeds going to insure universal health coverage for all.

[Fridays Child]

8. All of that is good...

...but, until sex workers, exotic dancers, etc., are no longer seen as members of a lower caste, the stigma associated with those jobs will continue to victimize women. I'm not saying it that won't, or can't, change. In my mother's day, for example, divorced women were shunned by society. That taboo is, thankfully, a thing of the past, now.

[saltpoint]

11. There were still other times when the only educated women were

prostitutes, on the notion that the well-to-do and better-educated clients preferred lively and informed conversation along with more traditional services.

To the extent that religion(s) has made sex a sin, prostitutes have become lower-caste. Certainly they are as human as anyone else and accordingly, deserve full human consideration. "Sinners" are shunned or excommunicated or shipped out of town on the next bus.

[saltpoint]

5. I'm against Bush's plan to gut Social Security, in favor of MUCH better --

-- care for the elderly, and also in favor of legalized, heavily taxed, and health-monitored prostitution.

No 80-year old should have to break the law to buy food and medicine.

I hope the Bush administration is proud of itself.

[Bhaisahab]

7. one thing i always wanted to know...

what's the difference between "legal escort services" and prostitution? i'm pretty sure the difference is a fine one, but would like to know. anyone?

[Fridays Child]

9. I'm guessing that, if money changes hands specifically for sex...

...it becomes prostitution. I read somewhere that the women of a particular call girl service never charged for sex. They just charged for condoms--some condoms being more expensive than others.

[MrModerate]

10. I'm still trying to process "legal escort services" n/t

[benburch]

12. Why are we hassling hookers in the first place?

What goal other than enforcing Christianity can possibly be served?

[LiberallyInclined]

13. there are legal ways to "make ends meet"...

don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

[ret5hd]

16. of course...

life's pretty simple isn't it.

:eyes:

[LiberallyInclined]

23. for the most part...

yes.

[ret5hd]

31. so tell me, what do you think of...

all the terminally ill we're gonna be sticking in prisons for smokin' dope?

after all, don't do the crime if you can't do the time...even if all your time is spent in debilitating pain.

sorry, but a "liberally inclined" get tough on crime follow the rules don't color outside the lines person doesn't sound thaqt liberal to me.

[killbotfactory]

26. don't make it a crime if there are no victims

The only potential victim in this scenario is the john who is getting gouged for being horny.

[LiberallyInclined]

29. but it already IS a crime.

so your subject line makes NO sense.

[killbotfactory]

30. the point is it should be a crime

[Mist]

15. Prostitution = victimless "crime". At least it should be decriminalized.

That condom dodge is clever! Those Gold Circles were probably -quite- pricy!

[dArKeR]

17. Whoreland Security shut down this business

Whoreland busted the 12 year-olds for downloading MP3's and low quality movies and now they're out for more blood.
http://elitetorrents.org/

[losdiablosgato]

18. THANK YOU FOR NOT POSTING PICS!!!!

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[nightfox02]

19. We are nabbing more hookers than terrorists!!!

Is this what the dept of homeland security is "investigating"...?

How many terrorists have we nabbed in the past 12 months compared to # of hookers...that would be an interesting juxtaposition...

[killbotfactory]

25. hookers are a terrorist plot to undermine our superior morality

Now, if only we could ban people buying other people drinks. That's only one degree away from prostitution, which is one degree awy from terrorism, which is one degree away from communism, which is one degree away from atheism, which is one degree away from Kevin Bacon.

[SammyBlue]

27. OMG, that is too funny!

[damntexdem]

20. As we say in Gerontology:

one is never too old to be active.

[daleo]

21. Bush wants to reform social security

This kind of entrepreneurial spirit will be a model to emulate in the future.

[fob]

22. She's a card-carrying member of bush*s Bonership Society!

No, Grandma, he* said "OWNwership Society".

[killbotfactory]

24. More tax money wasted on 'victimless' crime

I hope they tazed that nasty ol' grannie

[Megahurtz]

28. Oh and of course all of the clients

just walk free.:eyes:

"We better not look closer lest we find a Citycouncilman, higher-up Politician, Church Pastor or married man (or several) We wouldn't want to 'ruin their reputations' or anything"!:eyes: