Transvestite gang terrorizes shop owners

[cigsandcoffee]

New Orleans is bizarre.


http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/uptotheminute.cfm?recid=4912&userID=0&referer=dailyUpdate


NEW ORLEANS — Robyn Lewis, owner of Dark Charm fashion and accessories for women, represents the first line of defense for the Magazine Street shop owners. She is the first to see them come strutting in their pumps down St. Andrew Street, the bewigged pack of thieves who have plagued the Lower Garden District since May.

Like an SOS flare, Lewis grabs her emergency phone list and starts calling. “They’re coming,” she warns Eric Ogle a salesman at Vegas, a block down Magazine Street. Ogle, who was terrorized by the brazen crew two months earlier, alerts neighboring Winky’s where manager Kendra Bonga braces for the onslaught.

Soon every shop owner in the 2000 block of Magazine Street has been alerted. Sarah Celino at Trashy Diva eyes the door, ready to flip the lock at the first sight of the ringleader’s pink jumpsuit and fluorescent red wig. Down at Turncoats, where the fashion-happy gang once made off with more than $2,000 in merchandise, store manager Wes Davis stands ready.

Davis said it wasn’t supposed to be like this. They survived Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3 winds and the ensuing looters. They reopened despite the long odds of doing business in a devastated city. The last thing the Magazine Street shop owners expected to threaten their survival was a crime ring of transvestites.


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[Erika]

1. Nagin needs to get a hold on the criminals

But he knows the rich are back in the prime real estate, and they do need those low-paid workers.

[knight_of_the_star]

2. wtf

...

Ummmm that's the last thing I expected to see.

[asthmaticeog]

3. I want video of one of these crime sprees.

[cigsandcoffee]

4. I agree

It sounds like something out of the Mad Max series.

[Up2Late]

5. The Times-Pic's website has live web cams!

Mardi Gras was fun this year! :evilgrin:

<http://www.nola.com/bourbocam/>

[yankeeinlouisiana]

6. "Girls" Gone Wild???

If they don't have them, they need security cameras.

[regnaD kciN]

7. It sounds like a Monty Python routine...

...if only it had taken place in England.

[pokercat999]

8. Fighting transvestites over there so we don't have to

fight them here.

[xchrom]

9. no one has said this thread is useless with out pics?

if they this crew are vandals -- where are the cops?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

12. I believe the phrase you are looking for...

...is "Pix or STFU."

[FlaGranny]

10. We had a gang of transvestites a few years ago

in South Florida. They would break into trendy shops in the middle of the night, snatch up as many ladies clothes as they could, and make their escape. The cops finally caught them after a year or two.

[cigsandcoffee]

11. Good God

This is a trend?

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Faaaaaabulous

:-)

[KamaAina]

14. Vive la Nouvelle-Orleans!

This is the kind of weirdness the country -- hell, the whole world -- simply can't do without. I would, however, like to see this gang go straight, as it were, and maybe perform at Mardi Gras rather than ripping off the beleaguered shopkeepers.

[TheWatcher]

16. As a Transgendered Person I completely agree with you.

I cannot stand to see these types of stories.

And if I could get a hold of this group of Sisters I would wring their necks myself.

The Transgendered community is demonized and marginalized enough as it is.

We did NOT need this.

Bad Girls. VERY bad. My message to them is to please cut this shit out.

New Orleans doesn't need things like this right now.

[Javaman]

15. Straight ouf of Monty Python. nt

[uppityperson]

17. why are males in dresses transvestites, females in pants not?

always makes me wonder why the female clothing can copy male without much notice, but not the other way around.