Well hell. I gone did dumb tonight. I was talking on one of the chatlines here in Edmonton, talked to a girl, gave her my number, she gave me her location. It was the Edmonton Inn Express downtown, and off I went to meet her.
She came down to get me and we went up. She was about 5'6 110 ish blond hair, went by the name Dana, tanned, alright looking, skinny, may have had some enhancements in the chest area.
We went up she asked if I brought her money, I said sure, handed it over.
Then she said that she wasn't a prostitute, and to get the hell out because she had 4 guys waiting on the balcony.
I stopped for a moment and was thinking to myself that there is a good chance that there is no one, or at most, one person out there, and I was likely quick enough to throw the locking latch on the sliding door before she knew what happened, and then take my money back.
So for those 3 seconds as I thought there calculating, I realized that yes, I could have done that, but if I TAKE my money back then it's probably an assault charge for me, and then it's a whole new ball game.
So I just turned and left.
As I was leaving she said just chalk it up to a learning experience, at which point I stopped turned, recalculated and realized that even if I was just robbed, and if she was being a bitch (about robbing me. The hell!), that there was no way I could not get charged for taking my money back and left.
As I walked downstairs, bewildered, I thought, yes, 2 illegalities had been committed here tonight, and which was worse. I can live without the money. But what about the next guy, or worse, what if someone takes that moment to calculate the situation and comes up with a different answer then I did. Things could get all sorts of wrong. So I called the hotel and told them what happened. And being pissed off I said that the police would be coming. He said there was nothing he could do, but he had my number.
So now the hotel and the scammer both have my cell number. Sigh. If things came to a head and they wanted to review times called and my coming and going on the cameras, I realized that I would easily be caught, so doing what I always do, I dug myself a deeper pit.
I drove downtown to the police station an talked to one of the police there on the little intercom phone thingy. Of course I said it was a friend and that they used my phone, and laid it out, but of course the officer on the other end sounded apathetic at most, and of course nothing would be done.
So yeah, it sounds like a way for women to print money. Hell, you could turn one of those out every 10 mins if you tried hard enough. And because I too was in the wrong, there is jack I can do about it.
There was no signs out of the ordinary compared to the many times I have done similar things, so I can't even tell you want it is to look out for.
Watch out, be smart, and remember, there is no one watching our backs.
No smarmy remarks please, I am plenty angry, upset, and more then a little worried already.
She came down to get me and we went up. She was about 5'6 110 ish blond hair, went by the name Dana, tanned, alright looking, skinny, may have had some enhancements in the chest area.
We went up she asked if I brought her money, I said sure, handed it over.
Then she said that she wasn't a prostitute, and to get the hell out because she had 4 guys waiting on the balcony.
I stopped for a moment and was thinking to myself that there is a good chance that there is no one, or at most, one person out there, and I was likely quick enough to throw the locking latch on the sliding door before she knew what happened, and then take my money back.
So for those 3 seconds as I thought there calculating, I realized that yes, I could have done that, but if I TAKE my money back then it's probably an assault charge for me, and then it's a whole new ball game.
So I just turned and left.
As I was leaving she said just chalk it up to a learning experience, at which point I stopped turned, recalculated and realized that even if I was just robbed, and if she was being a bitch (about robbing me. The hell!), that there was no way I could not get charged for taking my money back and left.
As I walked downstairs, bewildered, I thought, yes, 2 illegalities had been committed here tonight, and which was worse. I can live without the money. But what about the next guy, or worse, what if someone takes that moment to calculate the situation and comes up with a different answer then I did. Things could get all sorts of wrong. So I called the hotel and told them what happened. And being pissed off I said that the police would be coming. He said there was nothing he could do, but he had my number.
So now the hotel and the scammer both have my cell number. Sigh. If things came to a head and they wanted to review times called and my coming and going on the cameras, I realized that I would easily be caught, so doing what I always do, I dug myself a deeper pit.
I drove downtown to the police station an talked to one of the police there on the little intercom phone thingy. Of course I said it was a friend and that they used my phone, and laid it out, but of course the officer on the other end sounded apathetic at most, and of course nothing would be done.
So yeah, it sounds like a way for women to print money. Hell, you could turn one of those out every 10 mins if you tried hard enough. And because I too was in the wrong, there is jack I can do about it.
There was no signs out of the ordinary compared to the many times I have done similar things, so I can't even tell you want it is to look out for.
Watch out, be smart, and remember, there is no one watching our backs.
No smarmy remarks please, I am plenty angry, upset, and more then a little worried already.