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Award-Winning Entrepreneur Jailed

On Friday, a successful, award-winning entrepreneur was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Freda Wolfson to over 23 years in prison for running his successful, award-winning enterprise. Okay, yeah, so he was a pimp and the award he won was “Pimp of the Year.”

The awards were from the annual Players Ball, where pimps are honored yearly. He was also a mailman when he wasn’t pimping and gave an interview to a magazine where he went on about his “pimptuition.” Wow.

A man who prosecutors actually described as an “associate pimp” was also sentenced to 96 months in prison. The chief executive pimp’s name was Matthew Thompkins, and despite his award, he wasn’t exactly a model boss: He only paid women $20 a day while pocketing all the rest of the money himself.

Oh, and a woman, Melissa Smith, who testified said she was beaten with a copper pipe and wasn’t allowed to leave. She joined because a pimp told her that his friends would help win her custody of her child, so maybe it’s best not to trust pimps.

Although family members said the award-winning pimp would be able to rehabilitate and live a life of legal letter carrying, Smith didn’t think so:

“If he gets out, I know he’ll do it again,” she said. “That’s all he ever talks about - pimping and ho-ing.”

A man dedicated to his craft. Erhm, yeah.

‘Pimp of the Year’ gets long sentence [Inquirer]

Keystone Cops: Foot Fetish Assaulter Moves South

Keystone Cops is a look at police, crime and public safety news.

• The foot fetish attacker has struck again, this time just before 5 a.m. in South Philly at 19th and Federal. Crazy sexual assaulter on the loose, be careful, etc. Be extra careful because police say he’s getting more bold and because, uh, hello, he has a foot fetish. [Daily News]

• Fifteen people — johns and hookers — were arrested in a prostitution sting in Camden and charged with either prostitution or loitering. Also recovered: A baby, who was in a car while a man and woman solicited an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. [Camden Courier-Post]

• An airman slated to go to Iraq stationed at McGwire Air Force Base was stabbed to death at a Northeast Philly bar early Sunday morning. A comment about his pregnant wife apparently started the melee, with a suspect still on the loose. Ahh, Northeast Philadelphians: Don’t know when to keep their mouths shut. [NBC 10]

• And, hey, the brawl ex-Temple player Mardy Collins started Saturday night in New York has landed him a seven-game suspension, among a ton of others handed out by the league today. NBA leading scorer Carmelo Anthony got 15 games for his part. [AP/CBS 3]

Hopefully Philly’s Casinos Will Have Such Amenities

Philly EDGE, whose streak of consecutive cute-girl covers is now at ∞, has a cover package on Philadelphia Park’s coming slots parlor and the already-open casino at Pocono Downs.

Bensalem’s Philadelphia Park — the former home of a horse who was way better than Barbaro, Smarty Jones — opens its casino on Tuesday, the 19th. (Or possibly the 21st.) The casino will offer “unlimited” free drinks from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week and will have a steakhouse that will only serve the “finest Prime meats,” according to the article by Sarah Baicker.

The accompanying article, by Bucks County Courier Times writer James McGinnis, details a trip to the Luzerne County casino, which has virtually nobody under 50, waitresses in Denny’s lookalike uniforms and features an exchange by a couple in their 20s/30s who said the casino isn’t what they expected, i.e. not dressy, no young people, etc. But, of course, one of them said they’d be back, since, well: “There are not a lot of other things to do around here.”

Well put. Although the old-people vibe of the Pocono Downs casino is a drawback for the younger folk, there still is reason to go. McGinnis describes the “entertainment kiosk,” which, well… read for yourself:

A kiosk offered six local attractions, including a clown named Blinky who “does hotels.” I called Blinky. Blinky offered to come to my hotel room and do balloon tricks. I considered hiring him.

Blinky the clown! My God, these casinos have it all.

Coining a phase [Philly EDGE]

Leftovers: No Tickets, Please

• This summer, Morey’s Piers will be switching to a plastic card system instead of tickets. The inspiration was apparently that annoying ad where the entire food court explodes because one man pays with cash. Um, yay? [Press of Atlantic City]

• Heroin is not just a problem in Philadelphia; it’s spread to northeastern Pennsylvania, too, complete with fentanyl-laced overdoses. Here’s a solution: T-shirts! [Daily News]

• The Inquirer and Daily News have dueling Atlantic City hooker stories today. The Inky’s George Anastasia goes with a woman who may have been with the man who killed four women and the Daily News‘ Simone Weichselbaum has a nice piece about how prostitutes are segregated by class. Key line comes from a prostitute named Heaven: “I’m a ho. I’m not that different. But I’m not a crackhead ho. So I’m not that bad.”

‣ And, finally, our city’s skyline likes to light up. Of course. [Inquirer]

Leftovers: Best, Philadelphia Will Do

• Apparently, if you sign your email with the sign-off “Best” you are uh, being rude to the person. Me, I like to stick to my normal sign-off: “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.” [NYT]

• While a third woman of the four found outside Atlantic City was identified, police are investigating if these homicides are connected to another attack on prostitutes earlier this year. Gee, it’s good that prostitution is illegal and all, because it really works out for everyone involved, doesn’t it? [Inquirer]

• More Western Pennsylvania news: In New Castle, a house explosion injured three. Damn, it’s a mile a minute out there! [AP/Philly.com]

• Quakertown’s council is flooded with complaints that kids are smoking on a street corner that’s been dubbed the “cancer corner.” Minors may be banned from smoking throughout the township. Huzzah. [Doylestown Intelligencer]

• Just in time — well, okay, in advance — of the Franklin Institute’s King Tut exhibit, we learn that the boy king was not bludgeoned to death. Well. That clears that one up. [HealthDayNews/Yahoo!]

Regular Michael Jackson Possibly Still Creepier

A New Jersey police officer wasn’t getting any, so he decided to do the next best thing: Hire a prostitute.

Okay, he didn’t so much “hire her” as “make his own one-man prostitution sting, arrest a woman and then illegally conduct his own strip search.” The Camden Courier-Post explains:

Authorities arrested James Michael Jackson, a police officer with the state Department of Human Services, and charged him with sexual assault and sexual misconduct for the so-called sting.

According to authorities, Jackson, 34, of Toms River, arranged through a service for a woman to meet him Wednesday at a local hotel in Manchester.

When she arrived, Jackson, carrying a badge and gun, told her she was under arrest. He made her take off her clothes and consent to a body cavity search before letting her go, Ocean County Assistant Prosecutor Martin Anton said.

The prosecutor said Jackson overstepped his bounds as a law enforcement official when he placed the female prostitute under arrest and performed a strip search.

Gee, you think, Mr. Prosecutor?

Officer arrested for illegal strip search [Camden Courier-Post]

Our Dreams, Flushed

Remember just last week, when the city’s soon-to-open pay toilet was all rainbows and puppydogs? Yeah, well… apparently not.

A few years ago, Seattle installed pay toilets for about $600,000 a year. The Seattle Times editorializes for the toilets’ removal, citing, oh, quite a few things:

The high-tech toilets were launched a few years ago to provide a safe, clean place to go to the bathroom for Seattle’s homeless, tourists and others with no other place to freshen up. Cost to the city is about $600,000 a year. The toilets have turned into publicly subsidized drug and prostitution parlors. A security guard at the waterfront location filmed nine people piling into the bathroom at once.

The bottom line is the toilets are not used often enough for the original purpose. Some homeless people say they wouldn’t dare venture in because of safety concerns about unsavory activities going on inside. Bathroom cleaners often find drug paraphernalia left behind. [...]

The original idea for the toilets came from the need to stop people from urinating and defecating in public — all of which is still going on.

What, those nine people all really had to go!

Seattle’s gold-plated toilet mistake [Seattle Times via The Next Mayor]
Nov. 2: Flushing Philly’s Troubles Away

We’re going to pimp you up

I really dig when people are really, really into their jobs. You know who they are: the NBA player who’s just doing it because he loves the game, the jovial guy who runs the lunchtruck, etc. I’m sure there’s a professional blogger out there who makes jokes about his Google pagerank. (No, not me. I usually say “staff writer… and blogger” when meeting new people.)

And, of course, this guy: A man so into pimpin’ he had a trophy proclaiming him “Pimp of the Year.” (How does one win pimp of the year? Most tricks turned? Fewest times busted by the cops?)

I’m talking about Matthew Thompkins, someone who we’ll all be getting a lot of mileage out of in the coming weeks. The recently arrested pimp is accused of running a prostitution ring in New York, Boston, Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He’s such a pimp that he gave an article to Ozone magazine talking about his “pimptuition.”

One of Thompkins’ trophies is four feet tall, “topped with a scepter-wielding figure in a crown and cape,” according to the Inquirer. He’s not all bad, though: Thompkins says he’d never pimp someone under the age of consent.

Oh, except the authorities said he was pimping out a 14-year-old girl. Now I know how you win Pimp of the Year.

FBI: Proud pimp nabbed [Inky]
It’s Not The People Who Are Responsible, It’s The Pimpitutions! [Philebrity]
Why use Google? [Google]

Apocalypse Philadelphia: Bad ideas all around

Okay, let’s say you’re a dude who has a thing for hookers. Hey, you know, there are worse things, despite what ex-Urban Warrior Carla Anderson will tell you. Okay, so let’s say you’re a guy who has a thing for young hookers. Hmm. Okay, that’s probably bad, unless you’re hiring 19-year-olds.

Okay, lets say you’re a dude who hired a 17-year-old hooker, gave her enough cocaine to kill her, didn’t get her help and is now charged with supplying the drugs that killed her. So, like, you’re a monster. But you’re out on bail. What do you do? Hey, how about anything but hire another hooker?

Yes, that’s right, David Downey is alleged to have hired a prostitute while out on bail after being charged with essentially murdering another prostitute. The motel’s manager recognized Downey and called the police, who moved in. The prostitute allegedly told police the two had sex — and, dude, being a prostitute sucks if you have to screw this guy — and there was talk of drugs.

Oh, David. Montgomery County DA Bruce Castor is moving to have his bail revoked and will charge him with new offenses. The question must be asked: We know David Downey is quite possibly a very horrible person. But is he this effing stupid? During Apocalypse Philadelphia (uhh, and surrounding areas), anything is possible.

Downey Faces New Prostitution Charge [NBC 10]
Photo via NBC 10