After handing out a stack of cards to beach-going ladies last Saturday, July 29, things did not go as hoped for 73-year-old Richard Basaraba, reports the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
A 16-year-old Oviedo girl informed Beach Safety Ocean Rescue officers that Basaraba approached her and two of her 18-year-old friends and handed one of them a business card showing an older man with a younger girl on his lap. The back of the card read “Ask me about your monthly allowance.”
The Daytona Beach resident also reportedly held up a bra pad after learning the girls’ ages and said he was looking for someone to fill it. He then allegedly told the 16-year-old she “would be perfect,” and to contact him when she turned 18.
Basaraba, who recently ordered a T-shirt that reads, “Accepting application 4A sugar baby,” told the News-Journal that he’s devastated that local authorities overreacted to the incident.
Basaraba was not charged with a crime, but was banned from all beaches and walkovers because of a Volusia County ordinance that prohibits soliciting on the beach.
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This article appears in Aug 2-8, 2017.
