We’re pretty sure Rodgers & Hammerstein didn’t see this one coming when they wrote Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City police have released a body camera video of a so-called Grindr “house of horrors.” At least five men contacted police after coming to the house expecting to meet someone from the app. Instead, they found themselves robbed and held hostage.
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The men each described a similar experience: after an exchange of messages, a Grindr user invited them to a small house in the city. When they entered, they found it crammed with a bed and clothing. An assailant would then hold the victims at gunpoint, robbing them of everything from money to their cars. Victims then had to lay on the floor while the assailant robbed yet another victim. According to witnesses, this happened about every 15 minutes. When one victim ran, the robbers chased after him, allowing the other prisoners to escape.
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Police have arrested and charged 31-year-old Deaunte McPherson with robbery and kidnapping. Police continue to search for three other people involved, one woman and two men.
It only goes to show, folks, be careful about those discreet meet-ups. Oklahoma ain’t OK.
fpcinnyc
How sad to live in that state and think – hey this house looks like a murder house but at least I might get laid if I go inside.
To quote Green Acres- “New York is where I’d rather stay!”
Wayne_in_NYC
You do know that there’s been several incidents of guys here in NYC being found tied to chairs and strangled or found bound and gagged and dead from an OD. They’ve been keeping it out of the news for fear of stigmatizing the community, but it’s been happening. ALWAYS get a phone number before meeting someone as well as a face picture, so if you end up dead, they have something on your phone to go on as to who you were meeting! Otherwise…. Happy Hunting!! LOL
johnozed
to Wayne in NYC-
Any more info on “guys here in NYC being found tied to chairs and strangled or found bound and gagged and dead from an OD”?
I’ve never heard this before and I live here.
In NYC.
StraightnNarrow
No one should sympathize with these sex crazed souls obsessed with anonymous risky hookups. When you are out there looking for trouble, trouble will come to you in tenfold. These men should thank their lucky star that they are still alive.
Greg
“I just adore a penthouse view.”
Greg
Yes. Always get a photo of his face. Seeing this guy’s face, who would go hook up with him? Oh, those guys would.
andrewl
I have to agree. If I turned up to an address and the house looked like that I would keep walking.
1898
re: face photos…
um, y’all realize that people on grindr can and do send fake photos, yes?
jmckibben
“Darling I love you but give me park Avenue.”
Italicsmine
“I get allergic smelling hay”
Juanjo
Some years ago I stopped in OKC for a night on a cross-country trip. I went to a bar there where I met some rather nice folks. They told me that a lot of young gay men from Oklahoma, southern Kansas, and the Texas Panhandle would move to OKC to work as it had a reputation of being a safe place. Guess not as safe as they thought.
Wayne_in_NYC
In NYC, that would be a 2 apartment building going for at least a thousand dollars for each place! With that much yard, maybe even more!
surfpenis
Is the Habana Inn still in Oklahoma City? I think that’s the name of it. I got sucked there once back in the 90s by a cowboy. Yee-haw, yippy-oh K Y.
KevInSD
Grindr: Where hedge funds and VC firms make a fortune off of desperation and promiscuity.
SinthiaDoom
“New York is where I want to stay”
Kinsey6
For the life of me I can’t understand why anyone would want to live in Oklahoma.
Signed,
Someone who lives in SW Missouri.
Bob LaBlah
lol lol Just curious but why didnt you go into how you guys don’t even have to have a permit for conceal carry over there? I bet you do prefer there to here. lol
Chrisk
Ewww…no way would i ever set foot in that garbage pit of a house.
Kangol
This is an old scam; it was big in New Orleans and other cities in the early 20th century and still happens in various places around the US today. In the past wealthy and middle class men would go to a house where they thought they could have gay sex with a hustler, only to find themselves the targets of thefts. The thieves would run out the back door, and the wealthy men would keep quiet about what happened, since they’d gone soliciting for gay sex, which was illegal in most places. Grindr’s providing an updated tool for perpetrating of the scam, and the story underlines that everyone should be very careful, getting phone #s, addresses and a face pic if possible, and also use an alert/SOS app, etc. if you go to an unknown residence or spot for sex.
batesmotel
People are so obsessed with trying to get off with no name strangers that you risk putting yourself in danger. You don’t think it can happen until it does. Nothing wrong with sex as I love it, but the hook up culture is out of control. It’s too easy to connect with as many anybodys and nobody’s. They don’t take the time to get to know someone first before hooking I’m because they want immediacy. Well this is the risk you get for your immediacy.
Rock-N-RollHS
I think “Straight N Narrow” dresses up in women’s clothes and locks young girls in his basement as he talks to his poodle named Lipstick. Just a hunch. . .
scotshot
@StraightnNarrow Do you get off on writing these lame-ass posts? There are so many occurrences every day of prostitutes robbing heterosexual men, that in fact so common it is no longer “news”.
“It is astonishing how low some gays are willing to sink just ……” Wear knee pads next time honey.
crowebobby
They want to get off BEFORE you tell them about your Barbie collection.
James
God how awful. I am glad they caught someone and hopefully others. And I hope they do not get let off so they can create even more horrors. How horrible.
Rock-N-RollHS
oh, all you sex-negative nervous nellies out there, you have a better chance of falling in the shower or being a victim of credit card fraud than being lured into one of these scams, unless that turns you one; if so, don’t give up hope.
Bob LaBlah
I have said before and say AGAIN you are safer going to a bathhouse for anonymous sex than looking for it online. You have the same odds of getting HIV or any other sexually transmitted disease either way so why bother with late night meetings where more than half end up in disappointment because the person looked NOTHING like the picture they posted online. In a bathhouse a photo ID is required as well a video surveillance of ALL who enter and leave. Be safe than sorry. Letting a complete stranger into your house or car? Entering neighborhoods late at night that you can not navigate from memory and you are unarmed too?
I pity these poor fools who perpetrated this based on the voice of one of the victims (hint). Gay or not Oklahoma is STILL Oklahoma and these crackheads went WAY overboard on this one. I doubt if they ever get out of prison based on that one victim alone (hint).
Kangol
Sounds like you know more than this article is saying (hint). Do tell!
Bob LaBlah
It wasn’t I who set the rules dear. They broke’em and they are going to pay the price and a HEFTY price it will be. Now run tell that.
o.codone
“Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue”.
jaack
StraightnNarrow Has little regard for the law. Blaming the victim was common in past decades when women were raped by SEX CRAZED STRAIGHT MEN saying “they were asking for it’, blaming the victims clothing” as a turn on to men who had no control over their criminal sex drive. Men in power don’t want women or other with the less political power to get EQUAL Protection under the law. The LGBTQ community has been the target of draconian hate laws for decades with no support in fact for said laws other than blind bigotry. Pure and simple hate has driven legislatures by religious fanatics for centuries. Always blaming the victims is so easy rather than blaming the CRIMINALS!
prarie pup
I can’t believe the holier-than-thou comments being made here. ALL hookups–straight or gay–carry a degree of risk. Even if it’s as innocuous as meeting for coffee, YOU HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING the intent of the total stranger you are meeting.
Yes, it is true that some hookups are WILDLY more risky than others, but NO hookup is 100% safe. Does that mean everyone should stop dating? Of course not.
STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM, BLAME THE CRIMINAL FREAK!!