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Vindicator ago

Looks like the clubs hired him because he was a popular teen celebrity at the time, a BMX bike state champ who starred in a couple of television ads:

He later returned to live with his mother in Key Biscayne, but soon began to run wild with the local kids, the ‘Key Rats’. He recalls slipping out his bedroom window aged 13 to spend nights with his friends in Crandon Park taking LSD and listening to The Doors and Led Zeppelin.

A BMX biker he competed regularly, won a state championship, and was featured in ads for Coca Cola and Twix.

He began working for nightclubs at 15, organizing private parties, racing up and down Washington and Collins on his skateboard posting flyers.