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The Onion
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Onion
Prostitute Falls Asleep During ‘Star Wars'
LOUISVILLE, KY—Expressing a mix of frustration and stunned disbelief at the woman's lack of enthusiasm, local man Ron Broder told reporters Wednesday that the escort whose services he had solicited for the evening fell asleep during Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope . The 40-year-old logistics coordinator confirmed he had paid the sex worker Misty, as she mononymously identified herself online, a sum of $385 to meet him at a nearby Rodeway Inn where he arrived with his own physical copy of the 1977 film in 4k Ultra HD, a Blu-ray player, and an HDMI cable and adapter to connect to the motel TV. Although he paid her for two hours of service, Broder stated that the prostitute dozed off barely 30 minutes into the movie. Misty 'We had just gotten to the part where Obi-Wan reveals his true identity to Luke, when I look over and see her eyes are completely shut,' said Broder, who before settling down on the bed and pressing play had greeted Misty at the door with a smile and told her of the 'special evening' he had planned. 'I did notice she seemed pretty checked out during the scene where the droids are wandering in the desert, but I assumed she would at least stay awake until we were finished.' 'I understand if she wasn't as excited about watching Star Wars as I was,' he added, 'but she wasn't even pretending to be into it.' The sex worker, who was wearing a faux fur jacket over polyester lingerie, was reportedly sprawled out on top of the motel bed's floral-print comforter, her head lolling to one side as she slept. Looking frantically back and forth from Misty's slack jaw to the screen where Obi-Wan was presenting Luke Skywalker with his father's lightsaber, Broder said he was worried about how much of the film she had potentially missed without him noticing. As the movie progressed, Broder expressed concern that the woman would sleep right through the cantina scene, and he began to make a mental note of which parts he should rewind to and show her as soon as she woke up. It appeared, however, that these highlights became too numerous for him to remember, because he soon grabbed the motel's complimentary notepad and ballpoint pen from the nightstand and began writing out time codes, including 'Han blasts Greedo (50:53),' 'Millennium Falcon hits lightspeed (56:56),' 'Chewbacca angry (1:00:14),' 'Han blasts intercom thing (1:15:48),' and 'trash compactor (1:19:13).' 'I was hoping she would wake up on her own, but even when I turned up the sound a bit, she just kept sleeping and sleeping,' said Broder, who described how he kept gradually raising the volume until a guest in the adjacent room started banging on the shared interior wall and yelling at him to 'shut the fuck up.' 'Then I realized I was missing the movie too, because I was continually glancing over at her to see if she'd woken up yet.' Realizing the importance of Misty watching the crucial lightsaber battle between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan, Broder said he considered gently nudging her with his elbow, but before he could make up his mind about whether to do so, the scene had passed and he had become engrossed in the Millennium Falcon's narrow escape from the clutches of the Empire. When the film neared its end, sources confirmed the night had not gone at all the way Broder had hoped, falling far short of the encounter he had long fantasized about having with a prostitute. 'I'm just disappointed,' said the middle-aged man, who sat in the dim glow of the TV screen and shrugged as Misty slept through the climactic explosion of the Death Star. 'I really thought she was going to like A New Hope . Her bio said she was adventurous, but I guess that was a lie.' 'Well, it's her loss,' he continued. 'I had something wonderful to share with her, and she completely squandered it.' At press time, the sex worker's pimp had reportedly arrived and sat down with Broder to watch the end of the movie, the two men crying as Princess Leia presented awards to the Rebellion's newest heroes.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Yahoo
Man accused of stealing car with child inside from Massachusetts sentenced
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A man who stole a car with a 3-year-old inside from Massachusetts last year was sentenced this week to five years in jail. In January, Vadim Vorobyov was found guilty of first-degree reckless endangerment, risk of injury to a child, and first-degree larceny of a motor vehicle. He pleased guilty to all the charges. Child located, suspect in custody in Windsor after AMBER Alert issued in Chicopee, Mass. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to a combined eight years in jail, which will be served concurrently for a total of five. Vorobyov was arrested by East Windsor police on March 29, after he stole a 2021 Toyota Camry on Exchange Street in Chicopee that had 3-year-old Liam David Pagan inside. At a court hearing in April, police said they did not know if Vorobyov was initially aware there was a child in the vehicle. A preliminary investigation showed Vorobyov dropped Pagan off at the Rodeway Inn in East Windsor before driving to a shopping plaza on Kennedy Road where he was then taken into custody at the Dollar Tree. Massachusetts police credited license plate readers and city cameras as crucial to locating him and the boy. Pagan was not injured in the incident. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
27-02-2025
- Business
- CBS News
West Sacramento renovating two former hotels, purchasing one next door for new emergency homeless housing
WEST SACRAMENTO -- Two former hotels along West Capitol Avenue near Poplar Avenue are under construction as city leaders work to create one consolidated site for its homeless emergency housing program. In addition, the West Sacramento City Council last week unanimously approved the $2.5 million purchase of a third hotel next door at 1841 West Capitol Ave. to add to the existing site. The city hopes the first round of construction for the first two former hotels will be complete by this summer, while leaders work to finalize a contract for the purchase of the third over the next few weeks. "The alternative would be that these individuals would be out on the street. We have an opportunity now to have these individuals housed so that we can focus on them getting the supportive services that they need," said Raul Huerta, housing manager for the city's economic development and housing department. A little fewer than 300 people are homeless in West Sacramento and about 100 stay in the city's emergency hotel housing each night, which is full capacity. "It's a lot more cost-effective to operate sites that are adjacent to each other because we do pay for security, case management, all those wraparound services," Huerta said. Two hotels are actively operating as homeless emergency housing about a mile down West Capitol Avenue near Capitol Bowl and Sutter Health Park. Those are the former Flamingo Hotel and Rodeway Inn, set to close by the start of the new year. "Those sites will eventually shut down. They were never meant to be long-term uses for that purpose," Huerta said. "Once these new sites are available and completed, we will start making that transition. It's going to be a slow transition to make sure we can coordinate all those relocations." The Rodeway Inn will eventually be knocked down and redeveloped into affordable housing with an estimated 114 units. It is one of the initial steps kicking off the city's Grand Gateway Master Plan Development, a project that re-imagines this stretch of West Capitol Avenue down to the Tower Bridge and Sutter Health Park. "This has been planned for many, many years and it's just now we are actually getting a jump start on it," Huerta said. New housing, shops and restaurants will eventually pop up near the ballpark that will be the temporary new home of the formerly Oakland Athletics through their 2027 season. The city plans to start relocating the homeless staying at the former Rodeway and Flamingo hotels this fall. "Being able to get somebody stabilized, really the first piece of that is stabilizing their housing," said Taylor Nelson of the West Sacramento Police Department. Nelson is the division manager for the department's community outreach and support program, on the ground daily reaching out to the city's unhoused. Their role is to not only let those living in encampments know that the city must enforce a no-camping ban, but also to work diligently to connect them to the services they need. "Developing rapport is a core function of what my team does. It might be that we go out and talk with somebody ten times before they are in a position that they are ready to start engaging with services," Nelson said. Nelson said the new site will only house West Sacramento's homeless. "The vast majority of the referrals for people living in these programs are coming through our encampment outreach — people that our team is encountering day after day at homeless encampments within the city of West Sacramento," Nelson said. Still, the new consolidated emergency housing site will promote a low-to-no-barrier model, allowing pets and people in active drug addiction to obtain services. "There are absolutely rules that participants must follow to be in this program but we are meeting people where they are at," Nelson said. "That might mean we have somebody that is using and they have a case manager that's working with them to get to the point where they are ready to engage with substance abuse treatment." The goal is to offer a secure site that not only offers a roof over the heads of the homeless but a helping hand to get them back on their feet and into society once again. At full capacity, the site will be able to house about 125 people.
