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BALDWIN, Mich. Nov. 19 — Once again it is deer season in Michigan's north woods, and hunters respond to the call of the wild time.
In Lake County, it goes “Yoo-hoo.”
While most of the hunters are looking for deer, the yoo-hoo girls have come up from Detroit, Toledo and Grand Rapids to hunt the hunters, plying the oldest profession in the decrepit summer bungalows left over from Lake County's more prosperous past.
They got their name from their basic method of advertising, a cheerful “Yoo-hoo” called to the grinning hunters who saunter past their cars.
And this economically depressed patch of scrub oak and jack pine in central Michigan is not the only place where prostitution follows the deer season.
“Yes, we get some of that business going on in the town,” said Beverly Szubelak, owner with her husband Pete of the Mio, Motel in Mio, on the other side of the state from here. “Sometimes you see them in their vans parked by the bars. It's something you get during deer season.”
Last year, Sgt. George Pratt of the state police estimated that the 18-mile stretch of country road from Reed City to Baldwin drew about 100 prostitutes in the 15-day deer season. Eighteen, including two 16-year-old girls, were arrested after local complaints forced the police action. This year the numbers are probably about the same, Sergeant Pratt said, but so far there have been no arrests by the state police. |
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