What's the sketchiest interaction you have had with a non-affiliated woman at a

7/29/2017 4:29:20 PM

As I have commented before, once when I was going into a club there was a cute girl sitting in the parking lot near the entrance. She had some toiletries laying out in clear plastic travel bags and said she had just gotten off a bus and was waiting for her ride, but she wanted to exchange phone numbers so we could meet up later. About 30 seconds later a guy in a car pulled up and she got in and they left. An hour or so later, she started texting me, asking me to go to her place to meet up.

The most implausible thing about the scenario is that she was sitting in a strip club parking lot a few miles away from the bus station rather than inside the bus station where there is security. I texted her that I was going to sleep and wished her a good night. She texted back saying that the guy was her sister's boyfriend, and then how lame I was and that I should come over.

More recently, I was at a dive on a slow night, and a "couple" came in. The girl started touching me like a high-hustle stripper and told me that the guy was her friend and his girlfriend had cheated on him. I suggested that she pay attention to him if his girlfriend had just cheated on him, and she responded that he was OK with her talking to other guys. After I left the bar, she approached a different customer and looked to be running the same routine on him.

Has anyone taken the bait on this kind of thing? Any experiences to report?

Both struck me as robbery attempts, but I wasn't inclined to find out.

10 comments

Latest

ppwh

•

7 years ago

Forgot a detail, the girl out in front of the club asked for any help and I gave her $5. When I walked up, I had taken her for a cute stripper who was on her way into the club or prevented from working due to some club policy since she was sitting out there with toiletries.

Once she said she had just arrived in town on a bus, I figured it was for show to give the impression that she was traveling rather than staying at one of the cheap hotels down the road and looking for someone to rob to get a fix. The toiletries might have been as much for the door people to see, though, to give the impression that she was on her way in for work or to get ready for an audition, though.

JAprufrock

•

7 years ago

Maybe robbery attempts, but perhaps prostitutes? Seems like a strip club parking lot or the actual club itself would be a good spot for a hooker seeking horny men with cash. But considering both times a guy was with the woman, could have been a set-up to a robbery. But then again, that first one wouldn't have given you her number if it was robbery attempt. In any event, wise to avoid a potentially dangerous situation.

ppwh

•

7 years ago

The one who gave me her number also mentioned that she was borrowing her friend's phone, so she couldn't text for long. I would guess a burner phone if she had nefarious plans.

I agree with the presence of the guy each time being a red flag, maybe trying to get potential victims used to seeing him so they wouldn't raise an objection to him being there in a more secluded location.

That reminds me, I had a similar experience in the nightclub district in Vancouver, BC where a cute girl was panhandling. I offered her $10 if she would show me where an ATM was. She began leading me toward the sketchier part of the street, but I told her I wanted to go the other way.

As we were walking, a young guy walked up and asked me if I wanted to go in halves on a threesome with her. I defended her honor and asked her wtf once he left. She had the slyest grin as though it was all she could do to keep a straight face and respond "probably a crackhead". In that case, it seems more likely that he was her boyfriend checking out my intentions, though.

JAprufrock

•

7 years ago

Was that on Granville St? Some sketchy establishments and people there. And I'd never let a stranger know I was looking for an ATM, especially a panhandler (Vancouver is full of them).

ppwh

•

7 years ago

Yep, Granville St. I was looking to find an ATM more toward Robson since the other direction looked like where you would go for aggressive panhandling or a con after punching in your PIN.

Good point about telling strangers about ATMs. She came off as really non-threatening, and at least in the early 2000s, Vancouver didn't seem particularly threatening outside of East Hastings.

Papi_Chulo

•

7 years ago

More often than not my impression of a female approaching you in a club is about P4P and not a robbery set-up, although the latter is always possible - even if there's a dude in the picture often times he's down w/ what she does and is either her pimp, or BF that lives off of her whoring - i.e. IMO a dude in the picture does not necessarily mean a robbery, but of course probably not worth taking the chance.

Papi_Chulo

•

7 years ago

When I lived in Dallas in the 2000s it was not uncommon to see chicks casing SC parking-lots in their cars and approaching dudes - the same thing used to happen in Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas which was an infamous street down in Big-D - in the late 2000s there was a female mayor and it seemed the authorities put a lid on all that stuff - but it was pretty eye-opening to see good-looking young girls casing SC parking lots and Harry Hines Blvd (the latter was much more common) - I assume as hooking-up on the internet has become more wide-spread one does not see what they used to out in the open/streets

Papi_Chulo

•

7 years ago

I don't recall being approached inside a SC but was a couple of times outside the SC when I lived and SCed in Dallas and a time or two downhere in Miami.

On my last trip to Follies ATL back in Sept 2016, there was a couple that came-in in the early-eve around 8 pm; AA-guy in his 30s and a white-chick in her late-20s - they stuck around for about an hour and were talking to various dancers but not getting any dances - they saw me getting lots of dances from the ebonies and the girl struck up a convo w/ me (she said the dude was her husband) - a few-minutes later the dude said "I see you like black girls" to which I replied "yes" - he then gave me a business-card w/ a non-descript web-address on-it and I was not sure what it was - a couple of days later I looked up the web-address and it was a local ATL escort website - I guess they were there recruiting girls.

Hugh_G_Rection

•

7 years ago

Not saying what she was but-- like anything else, trust your gut. If alarm bells are sounding in the back of your brain there is probably a reason.

ppwh

•

7 years ago

Yeah, it did seem like a sketchy guy offering pills in a pharmacy parking lot when you're walking up with a prescription. I can get why he would want to do it, but the value on the customer side seems pretty questionable, especially when the interaction starts off with an implausible pretext like his brother had bought a prescription for Xanax that he doesn't need.

In those strip club situations, they made civvie proposals rather than P4P, which made it seem more suspect. Possibly just being careful, but outright robbery or a ROB experience seemed more likely, and in the best case, bait-and-switch doesn't create that lovey feeling that we hope for from the SS at the club.

In a similar vein, I had some guys pretext that they had just catered an event and had leftover steaks. The steaks were shrink-wrapped, and if they were fit for consumption, it would be hard to imagine a caterer not keeping them for the next job.

However, a manager's wife where I worked bought a bunch of those and he said she ended up paying way over what the cost would have been at a grocery store because being sold out of the back of the truck made it seem like a deal. As far as I know, neither of them died from eating the steaks, but FFS.

You must be a member to leave a comment.Join Now

Got something to say?

Start your own discussion