This is why I do my clothes shopping at REI:
Well-dressed men at posh Dallas hotels and bars are being targeted by a ring of flirtatious women who may be drugging them before swiping their watches and other expensive items, police said.
One man was hurt after possibly being beaten with a high-heeled shoe, police said. Another lost his wallet while in his car with his pants around his ankles.
Probably yanked those things down to trip him up. Evade pursuit, like.
But what’s the world coming to, when a well-dressed man can’t accept the offer of a drink from an anonymous woman at a bar in a strange town?
Want a good laugh? Go into REI and ask them for a box of .40 S&W hollowpoint ammo.
It’s like going to the cafeteria at PETA HQ and asking for a Veal Cutlet.
Importing the “ladies” from Naples and Barcelona I see
George AC1 (ret)
And Hamburg.
Youstabee, they wanted to sell you a watch in the Snake Pit Lounge. Now they take them.
The joys of shore liberty.
Lex … It’s all part of what James Thurber called ‘the war between men and women.’ One can always say no, before things get that far, as my father used to tell me, when he was in his instructive mode. When you see ‘an attractive nuisance,’ employ caution and good sense, as I’m sure you always do.
Marianne
Fighter Pilots are too aware of their surroundings, and alert to suspicious maneuvers to fall for a trick like that!
Besides, all those pilot types would never hang around bars. They are too committed to getting that mandatory “crew rest” and reviewing those NATOPS manuals and other professional duties.
At least that’s what I recally from reading all those Ryhthms chapters…
Not just at hotel bars.
A “heads up” for those men who may be regular Home Depot customers. Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to think it couldn’t happen to you or your friends.
Here’s how the scam works:
Two seriously good-looking 20-21 year-old girls come over to your car as you are packing your shopping into the trunk. They both start wiping your winds hield with a rag and Windex, with their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts. It is impossible not to look.
When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say “No” and instead ask you for a ride to another Home Depot. You agree and they get in the backseat. On the way, they start undressing. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over you, while the other one steals your wall et.
I had my wallet stolen November 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th & 29th. Also December 1st, 4th, twice on the 8th, 16th, 23rd, 26th, 30th, three times last Saturday and very likely again this weekend.
Bruce, think maybe you should try Lowes for a change of luck?
Hey, things like that happen when thinking with your little head.
He never said if it was worth it.
Just get yourself a Rorex and see what happens.
B. Jones,
Yer killing me. How can you possibly be getting your wallet stolen that regularly? Either you are Brad Pitt incarnate, irretrievably gullible, or blowing smoke.
My sister sent me that joke earlier this week; the coincidence was just too perfect to pass up.
YGBSM, I was on travel all last week and nobody ever bought me a drink!
Bruce- goodun. When I saw that joke it didn’t take place at a Home Depot but at a carwash with pics.
AC1- speaking of Naples did you ever hear of “Humpty Dumpty”? LOL. Anybody?
b2
And I thought this only happened in Wanchai!
B2-When I was at the War College the dentist there used to keep a picture of Humpty Dumpty up in his office-to remind his patients about the importance of good dental health!
Bob-
Ms. Dumpty was still in Naples when we went there in early 90’s. Rumor was our CMC had known her when he was but an airman.
Nose
Guys,
Naples ain’t what it used to be. Nowadays the working girls (working to try to get their passports back from some gangster who says they owe him money for smuggling them to Italy) are Nigerian and Central European, and scattered all over the countryside. To keep warm standing by the roadside all day and night, they build fires. Hence, they are known as “campfire girls.”
Don’t believe me, google it.
They were campfire girls in the 80’s too. I once made the mistake of walking over the hill from AFSOUTH back to Pazzuoli to catch the bus back to fleet landing. The fires were burning then too.
God protects fools and drunks and that night I was both. I never made that hike again! You should stand shore patrol sometime and get the Caribineri to take you north of the via Roma. That’s an education!
“One man was hurt after possibly being beaten with a high-heeled shoe, police said. Another lost his wallet while in his car with his pants around his ankles.”
Another pleasant night at the homestead…
Nose,
I think that 90’s Dumpty was her daughter..unless she looked exactly like that poster in the Dentist’s office!
On the night before my first ever port visit to Napoli I viewed a poster of..well..a Humpty Dumpty looking older woman the leadership posted in the RR the night before the boating began. I said “No way jose” forgot about it and went ashore to git my stereo at AVSOUTH….Well, to make a longer story short, I got off’n the wrong bus and had to walk to AVSOUTH from the Navbase..On the hike I actually passed Humpty, comfortably esconed on that wall, and we had a brief conversation though she speaky no Englise and no speakee Eye-talian. She asked me..well- you know what she asked in that one long word made up of 2, and then me fleeing the scene!
Nose- I’ll bet you were in elementary school then. Hada been her daughter.
b2
Jeepers, I live here, and I never heard o’ Humpty! I’m feelin’ a little culturally deprived.
Zane,
Yeah. You’re missing something alright. ;- )
Google this:
“humpty dumpty” & Naples
b2
Good grief Bob, if YOU saw saw her as JO then I probably saw her grandbaby!
Nose,
Or a reasonable facsimile.
Or maybe all the kings horses and all the king’s men put Humpty back together agin!
b2
b2, naw, I just asked my trusty LPO.