STRIPPER FROM DUKE LACROSSE PARTY PERFORMS AT PITTSBURGH'S BLOGFEST, MAKES SIMILAR ALLEGATIONSPITTSBURGH - Last Friday's semi-annual gathering of Pittsburgh's blogging community at Finnegan's Wake on General Robinson Street ended tragically with the arrest of three local bloggers on charges of sexual assault lodged by a stripper hired to entertain at the affair. The stripper is the same woman who made headlines last month making similar allegations about certain members of the Duke University lacrosse team. The stripper's name is being withheld in accordance with the policy of this news source not to print the names of persons allegedly assaulted at Blogfest.
Blogfest organizer and international blogging guru Mike Woycheck, pictured above dancing with the stripper, hired the young woman to appear at the event. "They don't call me 'Grabass' for nothing, you know," Woycheck explained. "I just thought it would be a real hoot, you know, to have a celebrity stripper for a change, instead of the local women we always use," Woycheck said. "I guess I miscalculated." But Woycheck refutes the stripper's allegations and claims that "nothing untoward" occurred at the gathering "other than when my sock fell off." Woycheck refused to reveal the names of the bloggers arrested. "Let me give you a clue," Woycheck sarcastically told a reporter. "They are all political commentators critical of the way things are done around here. That should narrow it to a couple thousand possible suspects."
Woycheck dismisses as unfair Blogfest's reputation for alcohol-driven, sexual antics. "Look," said Woycheck emphatically, "the people who attend Blogfest are perched alone in front of their computers for inordinate amounts of time. Outside of Blogfest, they have little, if any, contact with other human beings, so is it any wonder they don't know what's appropriate behavior?" Woycheck chuckles. "That's why hiring that stripper was such a stroke of genius. Like throwing steak to the hungry lions."
Woycheck can't predict Blogfest's future. "It's getting a little tiresome," he sighs. "Every Blogfest, it's the same thing: Police swarming the place, collecting DNA samples, etc. I think next time we'll just do Blogfest on line so that we don't take our people out of their natural habitat. Less dangerous that way."
