The Pink Pony was a house of sin but it will soon be a house of God, at least that is the thinking of a local church group who is purchasing the club and turning it around. The strip club, which is located in Cross Lanes, West Viriginia, has a seedy history. In 2003, a Powerball winner by the name of Jack Whitaker, for reasons nobody will ever understand, was carrying $500,000 when he walked into the club. He was drugged and robbed. That is also the same year the strip club lost its liquor license which spells death to any adult venue. This is not the only strip club in the news. The Admiral Theater recently made news for accepting donated toys for free lap dances.
You may be wondering how on earth someone could lose so much money in a strip club and we did too so we looked it up. Apparently, Jack Whitaker won over $100 million which is enough to go to any strip club for several lifetimes. As soon as Jack won the money, he went straight to the Pink Pony and put down $50,000 on the bar indicating he was ready to roll. The club owner told him to put the money away because he was going to draw attention to himself. Jack did not listen and kept bringing larger amounts of money. According to the Washington Post (which details how jack lost millions in a very, very short time):
One night in August 2003, eight months after he’d won the Powerball, Jack came to the club alone. He let it be known that he had more than $500,000 in a black briefcase sitting on the front seat of his Lincoln Navigator, which he’d left idling at the club door.
“Somebody should rob him,” Misty said, according to a criminal complaint police later filed. A bartender told police she heard Misty make that remark and saw her open two blue capsules and dump their contents into a Hawaiian Punch fruit juice drink to try to knock out Jack.
According to police, Jeff went to the parking lot, pulled his sleeves over his hands so he wouldn’t leave fingerprints, smashed the driver’s side window of Jack’s Navigator, grabbed the briefcase and hid it behind a dumpster. It was recovered after Jack realized it was gone and called police.
So, anyway, the Pink Pony is closing its doors after a sordid history and Pastor Art Hage is ready to change it into a drug treatment center. According to Hage:
It basically will be a rehabilitation center to help people that have been on gambling, dope, drug addiction, all kinds of immorality and our goal is to help them.
Now, the pastor needs about $795,000 to rennovate the building. Wonder where he would get such a large donation?
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Via: Huffingtonpost.com
