New York- A pair of Long Island hot dog vendors allegedly did their job with a little too much relish, selling sex along with hot sausage inside their tan camper.
Police said the women provided personal services along with knishes, Fritos and Cheez Doodles from a wiener wagon parked alongside Sunrise Highway at Rockwood Ave. in Baldwin.
“We’ve never seen hot dogs mixed with prostitution before,” said Deputy Inspector Rick Capece, commanding officer of Nassau County’s narcotics/vice squads. “It’s out there, the most unusual thing I’ve seen.”
Catherina Scalia, 38, of Rockville Centre, and Rose Skorgy, 34, of Merrick, were charged with prostitution after they propositioned an undercover cop yesterday, police said.
Cops said Scalia offered to expose herself to the officer or perform a sex act inside the camper, a rundown vehicle strewn with empty chip bags and ketchup bottles and containing a dingy mauve recliner.
Scalia also told the officer Skorgy would perform a sex act in his car, if he wanted privacy, cops said.
Police received a tip last week that the women were offering extras at the stand, adorned with giant signs reading “Hot Dogs” and “We Are Open.”
The camper has been registered to Scalia for four months, but cops aren’t certain when the duo set up shop in the residential neighborhood.
“It was a legitimate business. They were selling hot dogs in there,” Capece said. “We don’t know how large the clientele was, though.”
Skorgy and Scalia lashed out at reporters who tried to interview them outside the Eighth Precinct stationhouse in Levittown last night.
“Oh, be quiet,” Skorgy hollered, kicking at a photographer. When asked about her scheme, she countered, “Your mother sells hot dogs.”
The women will be arraigned today in 1st District Court in Hempstead.