Man chases stripper for 65 miles, then runs her over

[The Straight Story]

Man chases stripper for 65 miles, then runs her over

A man is accused of following a female stripper in his car for 65 miles in northern Wisconsin, and then running her over. The 70-year-old, named as Benedict Sedivy of Cicero Illinois, was charged in Florence County with two felony counts of reckless endangerment and a felony count of aggravated battery.

Sedivy had a large knife when he confronted a 46-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman, whom prosectors say he knew was a dancer at an Eagle River strip club.

When the couple tried to escape, Sedivy followed them from an Eagle River hotel to Florence. The woman’s accomplice said that Sedivy’s car hit him twice during the chase, and when they got to Florence, the couple’s car spun into a ditch to try and lose Sedivy. A trucker said he saw both driving past at 90 miles per hour.

Running into a wooded area, the woman decided to talk to the suspect and he carried her on his hood for 150 yards before slamming on the brakes and throwing her into a ditch.

http://www.blottr.com/breaking-news/man-chases-stripper-65-miles-then-runs-her-over

[Edweird]

1. Why is the fact that she is a stripper relevant?

[The Straight Story]

4. I dunno, want me to re-write the story for you and make her a pony trainer?

[southernyankeebelle]

7. Your funny. Maybe she could of been riding the horse without cloths.

[Edweird]

8. I don't recall people's occupations being part of stories like these.

Is there more to the story or did they simply include that information to make it instantly salacious?

[The Straight Story]

15. Well, two other sources use same info, and then there is this:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/137206453.html

http://whbl.com/news/articles/2012/jan/12/illinois-man-charged-after-bizarre-chase-of-female-stripper-attack/

Google news, search on stripper (not how I found this story, it was a sidebar on breaking news.com):

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&btnmeta_news_search=1&q=Man+chases+stripper&oq=Man+chases+stripper&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=984l984l0l1381l1l1l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=off&gl=us&tbm=nws&source=hp&q=stripper&psj=1&oq=stripper&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=37476l37476l0l38571l1l1l0l0l0l0l228l228l2-1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=108e253543676bfa&biw=1440&bih=703


Stripper jailed for smashing stingy client with bottle
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CANOE - 2 days ago
A stripper will spend the next nine months in jail for smashing a beer bottle over the head of a customer who refused to pay her. ...

Stripper Wins Assault Lawsuit Against One-Legged Millionaire Ex-Con
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Gothamist - 3 hours ago

Etc -

[Edweird]

22. Your excerpt is exactly what I'm talking about - what was the ocupation of the 'smashee'?

Why wasn't it listed in the blurb?
Furthermore, from the article in the OP, she wasn't at work - she wasn't stripping. The attacker simply "knew was a dancer at an Eagle River strip club". They weren't at the club. Why is it relevant?

[Owlet]

39. Why do you care?

[Edweird]

43. Why do you care that I'm curious?

[FarPoint]

46. Do you need a friend?

You seem a bit tense today. I can't validate your discussion with the meat of this post. ....seems irrational to me. Maybe you can process what's underlying with a friend. Be safe.

[Shankapotomus]

17. Can you redo the ending while you're at it?

Maybe the driver gets out of his car and is attacked by wolves or something?

[The Straight Story]

26. We could throw in a twilight twist and team jacob wolves eat him

And the guy with the stripper would be all sparkly.

[Shankapotomus]

30. That'll do.

Bless your heart.

[Liberal Veteran]

24. Nah. Make her a cobbler, cooper, or tavern wench.

[FarPoint]

45. I love your quick wit.

Excellent reply. I'm still chuckling.

[seabeyond]

6. i thought the same. yea, stripper. like that is relevant. but what the hell

stripper

ya know.

chuckle chuckle. giggle giggle.

[Liberal Veteran]

28. I agree. If she refinishes furniture in her spare time, that is her business.

I've been known to strip a few things to get them reader for refinishing in my time.

[Rex]

29. Why would it not be?

[JI7]

41. even worse is if you click on the link the image is of a strip club

showing some woman's legs.

like WTF ?

[Edweird]

44. So maybe it's the 'salacious' angle...

[Warren DeMontague]

52. maybe he was some kind of anti-sex zealot

and he didn't approve of her choice. Maybe the fact that she consented to take her clothes of for money drove him to violence. Maybe he was mad that she enabled the Patriarchy via her choice of money-making opportunities. Maybe he read a thread on DU that said "prostitution is violence" and due to the opaque, confusing semantic nature of the OP's phrasing, he took it as an injunction to commit violence on the nearest person he could find who takes their clothes off for money.

This is, admittedly, speculation. Nevertheless the news story makes apparent that there was some connection between her job and the attacker's motivation. Hence, "relevant".

[Nikia]

53. Sometimes strippers get stalked or harassed when a customer recognizes her outside the club

Even though, they are outside the club, the customer thinks that she should be a perpetual sex object. I have actually witnessed this, not that I've ever been a stripper. I don't know how often this happens to strippers compared to other women who work with the public. The article does not seem to make it clear if this man had harassed or tried to follow her before, though, or connect it to any other problems that area strippers had.

[JVS]

2. "The woman’s accomplice" Accomplice to what, being chased?

[southernyankeebelle]

10. Maybe he was her pimp.

[spin]

19. Also possible that he was a boyfriend...

Not all strippers are prostitutes.

[southernyankeebelle]

37. I was just be funny. I didn't mean to make light of the situation. Someone took me wrong.

[spin]

50. No problem...

and you could be right. Some strippers do side work which is frowned on by the clubs.

[obamanut2012]

32. She's a stripper, not a prostitute

Do you really think strippers are prostitutes and have pimps???

[southernyankeebelle]

34. No, I don't. Was just kidding. Lighten up. By the way I don't hold anything against hookers.

They do what they have to do to make a living. I won't judge them or a stripper. By the way hookers are as old as history.

[LadyHawkAZ]

27. Yeah, that bothered me too

first "stripper" then "accomplice", even though both seem to have been victims and stripping wasn't involved. Was this article written by a friend of the guy that hit her?

[thelordofhell]

3. This is absolute proof that stripping leads to attempted vehicular homicide

We obviously need to ban stripping

[The Straight Story]

5. Well, that and owning cars is like owning guns. People will use them to hurt others, so ban em

And I am betting somewhere pot was involved...

How many strippers have to be harmed by cars before we wise up? And who needs an SUV or Sports car (those can go faster than regular cars and hurt more people).

Won't someone think of the kids and strippers?

[woolldog]

11. Stripping is violence.

[seabeyond]

14. ahhhh, the boys are out to play. nt

[The Straight Story]

16. I think calling someone a boy is demeaning and sexist

I prefer super awesome studly dude, or something similar...

[seabeyond]

20. good for you. alert. nt

[LadyHawkAZ]

33. Oh you just had to go there

The temptation to draw an entire snarky parallel is awful, but it would be petty and ultimately useless.

[RetroLounge]

48. Ha!

RL

[seabeyond]

12. so funny, ha ha. see, add the stripper and we can make all kinds of jokes. THAT is the

reason to have in the thread.

but this would be you being respectful to another human being, regardless of the fact she is a stripper. right?

[The Straight Story]

18. It is in the thread because that is how the article was written

And like anything else on DU (olive garden, pit bulls, etc) it can have dual connotations. Especially when threads rack up huge post counts (like some of late seemed to be designed to do).

[seabeyond]

23. it is a lot of giggling over a "stripper"s violent attack. no more, no less. nt

[spin]

21. In this case had the stripper or her friend had a firearm...

the situation might have ended differently.

[seabeyond]

9. knew we would get this shit. nt

[Shankapotomus]

31. Note to self

Do not mess with seabeyond.

[southernyankeebelle]

13. Maybe we should ban old men from leaving the house after 8 pm. That way he can't cause any

problems.

[RetroLounge]

49. Ha!

RL

[Crankie Avalon]

25. For some reason, this story makes me think of John McCain

Did he get out of the car and call her a "painted trollope"?

[DeathToTheOil]

35. "The woman’s accomplice"

?

[COLGATE4]

36. Who says true romance is dead?

[ElboRuum]

38. My head is starting to hurt again...

Happens every time I am exposed to a pure source of what-the-eff.

[HopeHoops]

40. That's not a great way to get a lapdance!

What the HELL is wrong with people? The article doesn't say what condition she's in. I hope she's okay. That's one sick dude.

[bluedigger]

42. I don't think I would try to reason with someone that had tried to run me off the road for 65 miles.

I would probably just go someplace secure, like a police station, unless I didn't want the authorities involved.

But maybe that's just me...

[RetroLounge]

47. OMG! THis proves it! Stripping leads to Violence!

RL

[TwilightGardener]

51. Geez, that dude was pissed.