Some Louisiana Strippers Want A Piece Of The $20 Billion Put In Escrow By BP

Strippers dance at eXXXotica in Miami; photo credit: brh_images

You knew it would happen sooner or later; that everyone would be coming out of the woodworks to claim a piece of the loot placed into escrow by British Petroleum (BP).

To that end, British newspaper The Observer is reporting that a strip club called the “Mimosa Dancing Girls,” located in New Orleans, are requesting compensation for the loss of business due to the BP spill.

Apparently, because of the lack of business for the girls, the owners’ position is that they deserve a cut of the escrow money.

I will wager that Kenneth Feinberg, who is the Czar in charge of doling out legitimate claims, will be feasting his eyes in determining these particular claims… but he also might have reservations with the legitimacy of the strippers’ claim.

I know stripping may be a legitimate job, but the questionable profession seems far removed from fisheries, oil workers, shrimp-boat owners and others who are part of the legitimate bereft class, who have lost livelihoods because of the oil spill.

I know that BP’s tolerance level among the public is right up there with OJ Simpson, Michael Vick, and Stalin, but strippers claiming they are owed and deserve to collect from the escrow account? What is next, hookers? I mean, they too can make a legitimate claim and cogently argue that they deserve a piece of the escrow monetary pie.

Hell, they can argue that if BP did not spill the oil,  johns who frequented the brothels and strip joints and were gainfully employed, would have been enjoying lap dances and the like.

Giving the strippers money from BP’s escrow account is fraught with danger, because it may spring open the flood gates, creating as many bogus claims as the oil that is being spilled into the Gulf waters.

It was only this week that Kenneth Feinberg, President Obama’s pay Czar, left his post to concentrate on the claims, which will be coming in and vying for the monies in BP’s escrow account. Mr. Feinberg’s  job, to say the least, will be challenging.