With Lurkers FL Law insites he went on again
My gardener buddy felt comfortable again after reading lurks law lesson and after the rain, he went driving around due to boredom. Going and on 41, he saw what appeared to be, from a distance in the dark, a slender brunette with black shirt and shorts with short or updo hair. He pulled in b4 grace and to his surprise, another truck was there waiting. She seemed a bit confused, but after my buddy drove on politely, she took a ride, in the other, to get out of the rain. He said "Shoot". Other than that, later on, a tall WSW with black shorts / shirt and blonde hair was acting friendly and saying hello, but he was not interested at the time for conversation with her as she was larger boned than he likes to chat with. Nothing on PPB or NFM so he went to a club and killed a few beers and had some conversation with others at bar. Off he went again and was sad due to not ever seeing that first brunette again. Not much else cooking. So, he traveled toward Punta Gorda and near RJz he saw a youngish girl floundering around wandering. HE thought, then decided to try out RJz and in the lot was approached by a girl at very early in AM who wanted a ride. Well, . 2 was there and. 2 was OK as it was "late". Crystal was her name and she was not that talkative and not that easy to look at her face, etc. But OK. Good skillz otherwise except the Catch and Release moment could have been more betterer. He did not roam UTC, just OTC and spank.
She was acting normal he said, but wanted a ride to a specific place and he was not keen on that so nearby was OK too. Nothing missing from his car. LOL. He should just become an UBER Ride svc. LOL. He shoulda just went for conversation with the taller bigger girl from 41 in his retrospect.
Public bs. Private Pickups
[QUOTE=Freedom2B;2606866]My gardener buddy felt comfortable again after reading lurks law lesson and after the rain, he went driving around due to boredom. Going and on 41, he saw what appeared to be, from a distance in the dark, a slender brunette with black shirt and shorts with short or updo hair. He pulled in b4 grace and to his surprise, another truck was there waiting. She seemed a bit confused, but after my buddy drove on politely, she took a ride, in the other, to get out of the rain. He said "Shoot". Other than that, later on, a tall WSW with black shorts / shirt and blonde hair was acting friendly and saying hello, but he was not interested at the time for conversation with her as she was larger boned than he likes to chat with. Nothing on PPB or NFM so he went to a club and killed a few beers and had some conversation with others at bar. Off he went again and was sad due to not ever seeing that first brunette again. Not much else cooking. So, he traveled toward Punta Gorda and near RJz he saw a youngish girl floundering around wandering. HE thought, then decided to try out RJz and in the lot was approached by a girl at very early in AM who wanted a ride. Well, . 2 was there and. 2 was OK as it was "late". Crystal was her name and she was not that talkative and not that easy to look at her face, etc. But OK. Good skillz otherwise except the Catch and Release moment could have been more betterer. He did not roam UTC, just OTC and spank.
She was acting normal he said, but wanted a ride to a specific place and he was not keen on that so nearby was OK too. Nothing missing from his car. LOL. He should just become an UBER Ride svc. LOL. He shoulda just went for conversation with the taller bigger girl from 41 in his retrospect.[/QUOTE]LE have pulled mongers over when LE witnesses a pickup even if not on public property.
SW & the law when stopped
[QUOTE=Lurker2009;2605784]Good question. How would you know the girl has priors and how could they prove it: Florida state law allows cities to declare certain areas non-loitering / cruising areas due to drugs and prostitution. Fort Myers has the area on the books as such. I don't know the exact delineation that they use, but it does include the area from Carroll St north to downtown. In that area, if a cop sees you picking up or dropping off a girl, they can and will question you about it. If the girl has priors, and they saw you picking her up off the street, it will be a ticket, I think its around $180 as others have posted. The law reads so that the driver does not have to actually know about the priors, but if she has priors then driver is guilty. The good news is that it is a not a misdemeanor, just the citation is issued, so 100 X better than a solicitation charge.
If the police saw you picking up a girl with priors in other areas, like Old 41, its my understanding that this law would NOT apply. Its only in designated areas, based perhaps on crime statistics and written into statutes.
I don't think the police actually wire up girls. But I do think they will have a girl walk 41 and deliberately get into a car in front of them so they can pull the car over and bust the driver for the anti-cruising ticket. I heard that the cops will let the SW leave with no citation / arrest, which if they have priors, they are not allowed to be walking that same area and getting into cars, so their being let go and not arrested when a driver gets a ticket does imply that the girl is working with the police.[/QUOTE]From personal experiences don't rely on the law or probable cause, because FM LEO use a very loose interpretation of the law and our rights.
I've been stopped several times but never detained.
Once a girl in my vehicle was taken to jail cost me $ to bail her out, which I was OK with paying since she was honest with police and didn't try to screw me over by ditching stuff in my car. Not going into too much details on stop (not sure who reads and or monitors this site) but I was given a warning while driving with a known prostitution & loitering with no know destination in mind. The officer told me to be more careful and that if anything was found in my car I would have been arrested something about constructive possession or some such.
1) Have your story straight before police question you and girl. Example "I've known you for years and I just stopped to see how you're doing and take you to breakfast. You may be pressured into admitting the girl solicited you (not a lawyer) but I always stick to story arrange as soon as police lights are seen.
2) Keep an eye out some girls won't hesitate dropping something under her seat or yours.
Two of the three times I was stopped was for BS reasons failure to come to complete stop, which I did since I knew the police were behind me. And once for a break light not working, nothing wrong with light even proved it to cop after stop was completed, wouldn't let me prove it before he went through normal BS.
The third time I broke the rule and picked a girl up right on grand St. Didn't know cop was a couple long blocks back.
About 630 pm north fort myers
Went to north fort myers rec center, trying to get back in shape, before and after cruised north fort myers loop. Only saw kinda purple haired with pig tails girl, walking business 41, towards southern part of crescent lake road. Several lcso cars busy at shell circle k, probably scared her off.