13. VULNERABLE MEN 2007-2009 South Miami police is at somewhat a gay department. One popular local policeman used to a girl cop with him Tequila Chica’s 15th and Ocean, cover while he picked up guys. saw another cop sitting his patrol car the empty beach parking lot at 83rd a weekday morning. He pulling web pages on his I checked the public wif1 with wireshark, and all the requests to gay porn sites. I saw a cop in line at Ace Cash Express 7th and Washington, paying off paycheck advance. I asked him "What is the most crime that nobody would in Miami Beach?" He it is these awful girls take advantage old male tourists. They go back to their hotel rooms when they are drunk, and steal their watches while they in the shower. I asked it like the same group people every time, like operating as gang? said no, they It is just pathetic little different one every time. This in a city, Miami, where I at 40 under the of 18. My first weekend after moved into awesome new house in South Beach, I the block to Lincohi Road and some young people. They came over to see my new place. It was a looking young blonde from upstate New York 21 old named Joe, an 18-year-old Ginger, and another After while the left, and soon the guys were gone As soon as the guys were gone, the girl came back and knocked. I think I knew those people for another year or two before I figured out they all hookers. It is an invisible industry that can walk into your house, and people from other places don’t it. There was another teenage girl who worked at a snack bar. She was a model whom a local lesbian business owner put up a studio apartment because she was a customer magnet. She was short. she was 16 or 17, she was as a 12-year-old in clothing catalogs. She was a junior model. Every typical guy came into the snack bar would her money for sex. Sometimes it. A guy would "How about you get up on that bun for Most of the time I wouldn’t. Shaq would sometimes come in the snack and I knew would a at her. There was a Dominica Westling who moved to South Beach around the time I did. her to do a promo video on Ocean Drive, and she invited me to hang out at the Cardozo. I Girls with stubby legs prefer tall which I am not. But Shaq got There was even a rumor that Shaq almost bought her the five-storey which condo which I later into. So when Shaq came into the bar, I made sure to sit way away, to give him space sit right front the junior and say whatever he wanted. I knew needed money. The junior model never said anything about it until later. She finally Shaq offered her $20,000 take In her she said this in a tone of in conversation about missed opportunities. When the junior found out I went to strip clubs, she me she knew stripper who got pregnant. She got pregnant off a rich Arab guy, and he bought her a Mercedes. these North Miami would get pregnant and become moms age 20 anyway. There was Ruby had three or four kids off two or three guys, and the welfare checks rent a big where they all parties and mushrooms. So the story of a local girl who unusually successful in life, by getting a Mercedes out of the traveled a long way fast. There were underage girls making money everywhere. prettiest girl at Gold Rush a strip club manager in Atlanta paid $5,000 to have sex her when she was 16, out of $8,000 total. I turned down. my 17- year-old niece came to visit, could not walk across the lobby of the Fountainbleau without old guys offering her money. One day, of the regular at Club Madonna me do my usual routine of coming in to look at the and then leaving. I ran into her the sidewalk. She said “Go to Tootsie. You will fmd what you are for.” I 11-37 - Beach least bring to at as a I in in street on was up laptop. http were gay-looking near his common guess said young who of are is of a He wish. bitches, a met least hookers age I my walked down met good guy years girl named guy. a girl too. were right recognize in When posing who offer I heard say $300?" to bar, he take shot girl same I paid declined. guys, Dominica. moved snack a long to in of model, she the years told me and she didn't it. late 20's, regret, a model told a Half girls in single by one who were enough to house could have take was deal, The told me with her When she one girls saw all girls, on looking