They had rushed outside to deal with a commotion.
as she and her crop-top sweater sidled behind the bar to take over for the bouncers and bartenders. “Can you cover the floor?” the other waitress yelled around 11 p.m. Then again, I didn’t really expect most of the things I encountered reporting on the oil boom in western North Dakota this past summer. on that August night, when I arrived for my first shift as a cocktail waitress at Whispers, one of the two strip clubs in downtown Williston, I didn’t expect a 25-year-old man to get beaten to death outside the joint. This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.Īt 9 p.m. The Whispers strip club in Williston, North Dakota.
