Video Vigilante Catches the Tears of a Hooker

I was up early watching the snow fall and had a chance to fall back in bed and read the latest issue of Wired. There was a small story about a man in Oklahoma City who films prostitutes and johns in action and posts them on YouTube. The story included other examples of video vigilantes, who use video cameras to push for actions to clean up their neighborhoods. JohnTV.com, the website owned by the Oklahoma filmer, has clips of the prostitutes and johns in action, as well as poignant interviews with hookers whom he met 'on the track,' the city's streetwalker hotspot.

I watched the video he made interviewing one sad-eyed woman who said she was a crack addict and tearfully admitted she had the HIV virus. "I'm going to die of AIDS," she said and putting her hands over her eyes. It was a stark lesson on how unglamorous the life of a street hooker can be.