homeless men enduring beatings for bucks
The world is going crazy.. The things people do to make ends meet .. More to the point, the abuse of men by fellow men is astounding..
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ST. PETERSBURG — It sounded like a good idea to George Grayson: Get $50 for submitting to a 12-minute videotaped beating by an attractive female.
A homeless man, Grayson needed the money.
So he followed the recruiters to a St. Petersburg townhouse on seven different occasions over the last few months, he said, and let five different women use his body and face as a punching bag.
Grayson, 37, became one of many St. Petersburg homeless men allegedly targeted by recruiters from Shefights.net, a locally operated website that sells for as much as $900 videos of scantily clad or semi-nude women beating up men, according to a lawsuit.
"I'm still in a little bit of pain from a couple of weeks ago," Grayson said last week. "I'm just trying to deal with it mentally right now."
Local homeless advocate G.W. Rolle said for months he noticed men walking around Williams Park with black eyes, split lips and limps before he finally got someone to tell him about the "beatdowns," as they have come to be known among the homeless.
Southern Legal Counsel, which has represented St. Petersburg's homeless in the past, filed the suit seeking an injunction to stop the beatings, saying the men were vulnerable and desperate for money. It also seeks damages for medical costs and emotional distress.
"I was shocked when I found out what was really going on," Rolle said. "It's incredible what people will do to each other."
The men say they were offered $25 to be whipped and $50 to be beaten by the women. They were not allowed to fight back, they say, and did not get paid if they quit before the 12 minutes expired.
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damn i would go there to be beaten up by those fine chicks if they didn't look like that strapping tho ! it should've been more like a kinky thang than get a black eye !
Ghetto Panther - Violence of any kind is violence...
Sex slavery, child molestation, ethnic killings, etc, THOSE are human rights issues. A guy that agrees to get beat so he can score some drugs is not a human rights issue. If it was Hulk Hogan would be in jail.
GeeCleft - Yes, if you are in great need of something with urgency u'll never care how you would get that..we will never truly understand these homeless make people steal..so if u r homeless and u got nothing to eat,if u r offered something like this,u might as well grab it..
Ghetto Panther - Prob is these people take advantage of those people who are having great needs and would do anything for them..Though they are paid for it,i can't still understand how some people do this to other people for their own benefit..we bleed from the same veins,yet we never think we are all equal and are entitled with the same rights..
U'll never know what homeless people would do just to get thru the day..Some people are even selling their kidneys just to have something to help them survive..PrincessSarah - I agree with this... especially with those people who have kids but have not enough money to feed their young...
Its all consensual.Who cares what these people do
So the men agreed to the terms and were paid for their role in the video. Where is the problem? It looks like all Williams did was help put some money into the hands of some homeless guys. If those guys were not in the videos it would have been someone else because if there was a demand for the videos someone will supply them. If the issue is with the mental competency of the "victims" then the focus should be why are they homeless and not in a program that helps them.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:1209:]]
If you read the full article, most are destitute and soem with a very little understanding of what they're getting in to..
hmm, interesting...if the pain is causing pleasure, its a win-win situation :)
What is wrong with some people?Or should that be what is right with em? all this for money? and who on earth watches these vids? Could it be the same dudes who need scantily clad females to teach them basic chores? This is all way messed up for me to comprehend and here I thought I was streetwise !
Ghetto-Panther - U'll never know what homeless people would do just to get thru the day..Some people are even selling their kidneys just to have something to help them survive..
...who cares...its all about d benjamins folks.....if u can endure it good for u...a cool source of income.....Is it coming to Doha?....hmmm mayb QR 100 per minute..???
It would not happen in Qatar.
britey i can see galz wearing short short dress in tat link, will go home off the lights and open the link.....:)
You go Baggers, they got to love it. If they stupid enough to let some one beat on 'em for MONEY. Oh well I don't feel sorry for any of them. There should be no law suit at all. A boxer will get paid, MMA gets paid and so did the folks in this article. DONE
in their website most girls are hot
I WISH I WERE RICH!!! I know its very hard to earn money, but its going too much... I hope their conscience eat them alive...
Ohh god...the world and the people in it are getting strange everytime..:( seems like from ape to man,we're going back to becoming apes..:(