During the day she is "Sister Milindia", a mild-mannered Episcopal "nun" asking for donations for "the children's of St. Joseph's". And by night she is Mindy LeGrand, 54, a two-bit street hustler who uses these donations to buy bootleg DVDs and fund trips to Atlantic City.
Yesterday's New York Post ran the hard-hitting expose on yesterday's cover, calling LeGrand "The Lying Nun"..
After five hours of begging, Sister Milindia called it quits.
At 6:30 p.m., she bought some bootleg DVDs outside a pharmacy and caught the Brooklyn-bound Q train at Canal Street.
During the ride, she tried peddling vials of perfume to a female straphanger, who turned her down.
She got off at Avenue J/Kings Highway, where, cigarette dangling from her lips, she disrobed on the street.
After buying a sandwich, canned pasta and a bottle of water, she took a bus to Linden Boulevard in East New York, lit another cigarette and rang the bell at 714 Jerome St., a rundown brick house with garbage strewn across its front yard.
A hulking man emerged, gave her a bear hug and whacked her lustily on the behind.
A boy who answered the door there two days later said she had gone to Atlantic City.
First of all, "Milindia" is the name of a pole-dancer who works the day shift in Atlantic City, not the name of a nun. Mindy needs to step up her game...
3 comments:
We have a guy not to far from here who parks an old cadillac around the corner behind a building, then sits by the freeway all day begging for money. Then at the end of the day he gets in his caddy and drives to a strip club.
I make it a practice NEVER to give money to panhandlers. I support charity, but I don't encourage that lifestyle!
What a story! I saw a piece on TV about the Beggars Guild where they train people to panhandle. They learned how to use various stories, were good at it, and raked in a bunch of money.
My daughter and I were driving down the street one day and passed a group of panhandlers. They go all over the city collecting for various vague charities. A different one every week. My daughter said we should try it. Gas prices had just gone up so she came up with a really good cause -- The minority mother's transportation fund. Sounds better than "I need gas money".
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