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Woman Has to Pay $450 for Pretending to Be a Stripper: Reasonable or Ridiculous?

SodaHead News 2011/09/08 18:43:27
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Here's something you don't hear every day: a woman tricking people into thinking she's a stripper -- and then having to pay a fine for it.

But that's what happened at a gentleman's club in Clearwater, Florida when Natalie Behnke walked right in and acted like she owned the place. Behnke immediately began taking her clothes off, dancing provocatively and asking customers for money. That's usually how the pros do it, right?

Maybe. But Behnke's no pro. And the real strippers at Baby Dolls weren't having any of that.

After staff asked Behnke to leave and she refused, they called the cops on her impersonating butt and she was booked on "disorderly intoxication" and asked to pay a $450 fine.

Tough crowd, right?

And, as it turns out, this is not the first time that the 25-year-old has had problems with the law.

Behnke, whose last name appears as Benke in criminal records, is recorded as a habitual juvenile offender after being arrested on charges of shoplifting, car theft, battery and aggravated assault -- all before she turned 18. Oh, and she's also been changed with giving false identification to law enforcement.

Behnke may not be a professional at stripping, but she sure knows her way through the system.

Do you think the $450 fine is reasonable -- or is it kind of ridiculous?
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  • MandaLynne 2011/09/08 20:29:04
    Reasonable
    MandaLynne
    +19
    I imagine if I walked into McDonald's and started selling my scrumptious home-made hamburgers to their customers, I would get arrested and fined as well.

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  • danielsard ANGIE 2011/09/12 05:32:39
    danielsard
    Im basing her drunkenness on this part

    " she was booked on "disorderly intoxication" and asked to pay a $450 fine. "

    Just curious, whats TABC?
  • ANGIE danielsard 2011/12/16 03:57:14
    ANGIE
    A corrupt 'good ole boy' organization in the South that takes bribes in order to "look the other way" regarding illegal practices done by strip clubs and taverns(prostitution ,etc)whichever nightclub money pays the most bribes gets the least hassle ala "good ole boy" traditons.
  • Bo 2011/09/11 04:15:22
    Reasonable
    Bo
    There's laws against impersonating Police Officers, Doctors and many other professions I don't know why a stripper would be any different. They are hired to do a job, and most their money comes from the tips they produce much like waitresses if someone walked into a restaurant and started collecting the waitresses tips pretending she worked there and was ask to leave and refused I'm sure someone would call the police to have her arrested for tresspass if nothing else. And according to the article I saw the fine was $525 but hey it gets to be $200 pretty fast just exceeding the speed limit.
  • ANGIE Bo 2011/09/11 19:29:57
    ANGIE
    +2
    Strippers dont hold a professional license(Maybe they should??)Sometimes strip clubs have a night where non-employees can do a few dances if their husband|life partner,etc requests it..)
  • eric dusek ANGIE 2011/09/11 21:50:53
    eric dusek
    Amatuer night can be quite awesome. You get to leave and have breakfast when the nights over too lol
  • ANGIE eric dusek 2011/12/16 03:52:49 (edited)
    ANGIE
    Confuscious say 'person who never strip never get tip"
  • Resp 2011/09/11 03:02:54
    Reasonable
    Resp
    +1
    I wonder if she was worth it?
  • meeshuk 2011/09/11 02:39:41
    Reasonable
    meeshuk
    +1
    That would be like me walking into a restaurant and trying to act like a server so that I can get tips. The EMPLOYER hired someone to do that job that was NOT ME. Therefore, I should get arrested or have to pay a fine for trying to STEAL SOMEONE'S customers.

    JMHO
  • AMo45 2011/09/11 02:27:48
    Ridiculous
    AMo45
    +2
    Ridiculous that we've reached a new low societally.That women are now lowering themselves walking into these clubs for one and then pretending to be strippers?? That bar is set pretty low as it is..
  • blackrings70 2011/09/11 02:15:23
    Reasonable
    blackrings70
    +1
    After reading about her rap sheet, yes. Also, if I were a "pro" stripper and some skank sneaked into my club honing in on my action I'd slap the bitch out the door. MY TIPS BITCH!!!
  • ANGIE blackri... 2011/09/11 19:33:08
    ANGIE
    If a really pretty girl is new and makes tons of tips sometimes the other girls bully her into leaving by intimidating her and making up lies to the owners-I have seen that a few times and I have seen a few girls leave in tears ,then heard the gloating and bragging from others-(We showed that "heifer" and remarks like that..)
  • Sophia Hewitt 2011/09/11 01:57:43 (edited)
    Ridiculous
    Sophia Hewitt
    +1
    She deserves to get fined, but not that much. And it was $525 ...
  • bmxschoolbus 2011/09/11 01:56:54
    Ridiculous
    bmxschoolbus
    +2
    nothing wrong with having a little fun.
  • safari 2011/09/11 00:47:39
    Reasonable
    safari
    +2
    Not really - You didn't give enough answer choices and from my looking around to see the source of this it seems like your article may be wrong and the fine was not 450
    http://blogs.findlaw.com/lega...
  • Pissed 2011/09/11 00:36:53
    Reasonable
    Pissed
    I have known a great many strippers on a social basis and in fact, one of my family members is one. They work long hours at a job that is very physically demanding of them in order to make a living for themselves and their families. In my opinion, for someone to simply walk in, unemployed by the club and think they can do whatever it is that they want, patron or no, is an affront to the hardworking girls/guys that are actually in that trade. She deserves the fine in the very least.
  • King Arthur 2011/09/11 00:34:02
    Ridiculous
    King Arthur
    +1
    I don't support stripping, but I think that woman having to pay that $450 fine is ridiculous!
  • 1Actual 2011/09/11 00:22:27
    Ridiculous
    1Actual
    +1
    All I want to know is....IS SHE HOT!!!!??????
  • blackri... 1Actual 2011/09/11 02:27:45
    blackrings70
    NO....Yes this is she.
  • 1Actual blackri... 2011/09/11 05:09:56
    1Actual
    +2
    EEEEEWWWWWWWWW I'd pay her to put the clothes back ON!!!!!
  • blackri... 1Actual 2011/09/11 18:00:32
    blackrings70
    LOL!!! No wonder she got such a big fine !!LOL Hey!! I'm in Sebastian!! So weird.
  • 1Actual blackri... 2011/09/11 21:32:30
    1Actual
    Awesome!!!! I guess it is a small world after all!!!!
  • santaisgod4ever 2011/09/10 23:55:11
    Reasonable
    santaisgod4ever
    +1
    She probably made well over 1000 that night alone.

    Strippers make bank!!!
  • pepper5419 2011/09/10 23:44:45
    Reasonable
    pepper5419
    They would have left her go had she said she was a conservative Wall Street banker.They get away with everything.
  • futon1958 2011/09/10 23:21:23
    Ridiculous
    futon1958
    +1
    why should she pay anything??? did she break the pole
  • Playerazzi futon1958 2011/09/11 07:10:27
    Playerazzi
    She trespassed in a private club, and was not an employee.
  • nkrause27 2011/09/10 23:03:06
    Ridiculous
    nkrause27
    +2
    that takes moxie, was she hotter than the other dancers? give that women a spot in the show imo

    moxie hotter dancers women spot imo
  • ruisoares65 2011/09/10 22:17:03
    Reasonable
    ruisoares65
  • DDogbreath 2011/09/10 21:58:38
    Ridiculous
    DDogbreath
    +1
    Didn't she have a license to strip? WTF? Too ugly?
  • Mel 2011/09/10 20:34:21
    Reasonable
    Mel
    She could have put the business inlkegal jeopardy if something had happened.
  • ANGIE Mel 2011/09/11 19:34:19
    ANGIE
    +1
    yep-that's fer dam sure..
  • Tucker 2011/09/10 19:44:14
    Reasonable
    Tucker
    +1
    The title is misleading as to what the charges actually were. But I will say this, I have been to a few strip clubs that the actual strippers should have been fined for "Impersonating a stripper" and that is all I have to say about that.
  • FPSRules 2011/09/10 19:24:18
    Ridiculous
    FPSRules
    +2
    When our government upholds the important laws......say, for example, securing our borders, so ILLEGAL aliens aren't crossing our borders in droves, and then given amnesty by a traitorous 'Trojan Horse' president so they can vote for Democrats, then perhaps we can turn our attention to the more vital issues of the day, like pretend strippers.
  • jr FPSRules 2011/09/10 20:30:39
    jr
    +1
    Seriously get a life this comment of yours didn't even touch on the article. You're probably one of the illegals your'e complaining bout.
  • FPSRules jr 2011/10/21 19:46:46
    FPSRules
    Yep, and you're probably an Obama-drone caught up in his dazzling, messianic glow.
    I have a life jr, trying to secure America for my children, while Soda Head asks pointless questions like this to keep brain-numbed drones like you amused.
  • JB Lover 2011/09/10 19:08:10 (edited)
    Ridiculous
    JB Lover
    +1
    oh wait i thought it said a woman had to be paid 450 bucks. :$ im stupid sometimes..... but its reasonable cause its stupid 4 her 2 do that she wont even get paid
  • gidianedwards97 2011/09/10 18:38:39
    Reasonable
    gidianedwards97
    +1
    like wow people ya just can't fix stupid.
  • lil crazy 2011/09/10 17:13:14
    Ridiculous
    lil crazy
    +1
    You don't need a special liscense to be a stripper so if the fine was actually for impersonating one it would be ridiculous, but from reading the story that isn't what the fine was for.
  • Michael 2011/09/10 17:05:27
    Reasonable
    Michael
    +2
    I believe what she did constitutes trespassing.
  • DuncanONeil 2011/09/10 16:15:05
    Ridiculous
    DuncanONeil
    +2
    But since that was not what she was really charged with!

    I think the big gripe was that she was taking the "real" strippers money away from them. Seems more like fraud to me!
  • voice_m... DuncanO... 2011/09/10 19:25:52
    voice_matters
    can you please what she was charged? why do you think she was not charged with disorderly?

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