Walked into work tonight...

And folks were joking about goin' into the men's room and tappin' the stall. "Just don't do it" they said. Not even by mistake. I was clueless. Then they showed me the story on the web.

Sen. Craig denies sex charge, says ‘I am not gay’
Lawmaker is under fire for alleged lewd conduct in Minn. airport bathroom.



WASHINGTON - Under fire from leaders of his own party, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig on Tuesday said the only thing he had done wrong was to plead guilty after a complaint of lewd conduct in a men’s room. He declared, “I am not gay. I never have been gay.”

According to the prosecutor’s complaint, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, airport police Sgt. Dave Karsnia, who was investigating allegations of sexual conduct in airport restrooms, went into a stall shortly after noon on June 11 and closed the door.
Minutes later, the officer saw Craig gazing into his stall through the crack between the stall door and the frame.

After a man in the adjacent stall left, Craig entered it and put his roller bag against the front of the stall door, “which Sgt. Karsnia’s experience has indicated is used to attempt to conceal sexual conduct by blocking the view from the front of the stall,” said the complaint, which was dated June 25.

The complaint said Craig then tapped his right foot several times and moved it closer to Karsnia’s stall and then moved it to where it touched Karsnia’s foot. Karsnia recognized that “as a signal often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct,” the complaint said.

Craig then passed his left hand under the stall divider into Karsnia’s stall with his palms up and guided it along the divider toward the front of the stall three times, the complaint said.
The officer then showed his police identification under the divider and pointed toward the exit “at which time the defendant exclaimed ‘No!”’ the complaint said.

The Aug. 8 police report says that Craig had handed the arresting officer a business card that identified him as a member of the Senate.

“What do you think about that?” Craig is alleged to have said, according to the report.

Well hell, I think a person should be able to get laid however, and by whoever they want in a free country. But Christ, if a SENATOR can't get it whenever he wants it, what the hell chance does an average dude have? And why the hell would he pull a George Michael, when there's got to be a few dozen call girl, or call boy rings operating for these folks in DC, all on the down low? I mean, LBJ has got to be spinnin' in his grave, laughin' his ass off at this one. What an fuckin' idiot.

The conversation at work soon shifted to a notorious bathroom on base, long since torn down, out by the old gas station, that used to be a common site where soldiers used to get arrested regularly for soliciting. Supposedly even high ranking NCOs and a few officers. These folks have been around here a lot longer than I have, and a few were stationed here while still in the army. They have lots of interesting stories to tell. I'll try to pry a few more details out of them... historical curiosity of course. Purely academic.

Poor dumb bastards, just tryin' to get laid, ending up screwing their whole lives away. Makes you wonder about the priorities of our criminal justice system. I mean, if they catch someone messin' with kids, it should be an automatic .22 double tap! But stay the hell out of a grown man or woman's business, right? What do you think?