Sure, modeling may be the one profession where women are generally treated better and given a more abundant monetary reward doing the same line of work as men. Still, the life of male model is pretty good. Not only do they get to travel around the world, picking up covetable pieces of free designer fashion along the way, but if they're really lucky (or have a great agent) they may even parlay their turn on the catwalk into a running guest appearance on MTV's The City or on the arm of the Material Girl at swanky events.

So, it is without further adu, that I spend a few sentences lamenting on the failure that is Hugo Boss model turned habitual store robber, Joshua Walter.

According to NY Post, the 20-year-old Queens native has been charged, along with 3 others, for taking part in a holdup ring that robbed 15 gas stations and delis in the last month. The police say the group made away with $12,000 to $15,000, taking about $800 to $1000 form each place that jacked for its booty.

The beautiful thugs hit up 7-11 stores, bodegas and fruit and vegetable markets in Rego Park, Jackson Heights, Forest Hills, and Jamaica, Queens, and in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in addition to the gas stations. The crew was busted at 1:30 a.m. last Thursday when cops assigned to the Queens North auto larceny squad stopped a Chevy Astro van with four men inside on 30th Avenue near 31st Street in Astoria. Upon arrival at the police station, all four robbers confessed that they had committed the crimes.

And, as if that wasn't embarrassing enough, the Post concludes its story on Walter with a paragraph about his 37-year-old girlfriend, Gina Salamino:

"He shares a home with Gina Salamino, 37, a former second-grade teacher who lost her job at PS 121 in Jamaica after their relationship was discovered

Gina and Josh first met when he was only 12. They renewed their acquaintance at a family party on Aug. 6, 2007, and said they first hooked up during the 2006-2007 school year -- when Walter was 17. In a bid to reclaim her job, Salamino contended there was nothing wrong with her liaisons because Walter wasn't her student, and at 17, wasn't a minor. While that's true in terms of criminal law, city education law considers anyone under the age of 18 a minor, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled. When Department of Education investigators questioned Walter about Salamino, he said, "I'm tapping that ass and there's nothing you can do about it."

He said he considered the older woman 'my shorty.'"

Disgusting, indeed.