/ 13 July 2008

Pole dancer perks up Santiago commute

A pole dancer who took her writhing spins where they had never been — on to a pole inside a subway car — perked up the morning commute in Santiago before her underground career was cut tragically short.

Monserrat Morilles (26) for the past few days had been walking into a subway car dressed in a leather coat and black boots, then start slowly stripping in front of surprised and then enthralled commuters in Chile’s capital.

But her desire to share, perhaps too much, was unceremoniously squelched on Thursday when 15 security guards stopped her shimmying and wrestled her out of the metro where she was promptly arrested.

“I think it’s amazing that they are using all this security against someone who never hurt anyone when there are plenty of people who are attacked in the metro,” Morilles said.

She added that none of the metro riders had pressed charges against her.

Morilles had given commuters a free pole-dancing show for several days, stripping down to her bra and panties, before being pulled from her mass transit show. — AFP