Sunday 24 April 2011

COMIC BOOK VIGILANTES COME TO THE AID OF PROSTITUTES


Monday Telegraph Sydney Australia 25th April 2011:
NEW YORK: Self-styled superheroes have offered their help in fighting the serial killer thought to be behind the murders of over a dozen prostitutes.
The New York Initiative – a group of vigilantes who model themselves on comic book heroes as portrayed in the hit film Kick Ass – posted an advert on classified ads  website Craigslist offering “rescue teams” for hookers whose clients turn violent.
NYI, who identify themselves as a group of “martial arts trainers,” security specialists, emergency first responders, drug counsellors, former military police and former law enforcement, are also offering martial arts and weapons training to the women.
The murderer stalking New York, dubbed the Craigslist Killer because he targets women selling sex through Craigslist, is thought to be behind the deaths, of up to 13 prostitutes.
Most of the bodies so far found had been dumped in scrub land on the southern coast of Long Island, New York, all strangled and stuffed in burlap sacks.
According to their advert, NYI have offered their help to prostitutes because “apparently the law doesn’t respect your personal choices and that means cops are slower to follow through when it comes to you.” The group is offering “a number to call and a few one-number of one-word codes you can say or text to them so that they can contact someone to assist you with a possibly violent date.”
   

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