Foot-Tapping Ritual Common in Sex Sting

guardian ^ | 08/30/07 | STEVE KARNOWSKI

[TornadoAlley3]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A foot-tapping ritual was a common thread in many of the 41 arrests reported during a four-month airport bathroom sting that snared Sen. Larry Craig. An undercover officer would take a seat in a stall. Soon another man would sit in the stall next door and start tapping his foot, perhaps moving it closer to the officer's. The officer would move his foot up and down slowly. The suspect might then extend his hand under the divider between the stalls, sometimes repeatedly. That would be enough to get the man busted.

Airport police reports obtained by The Associated Press gave strikingly similar accounts of the events that led to the 41 arrests officers made for alleged lewd conduct in public restrooms in the main terminal of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport during the May-August sting.

[flowerplough]

Restless leg syndrome sufferers, beware.

[Kozak]

How low do you have to sink to want to have sex in a public bathroom. That dirty smelly metaphor for Socialism.

[inkling]

Sen. Craig MAY just have an out in this case. All he needs to say is that when he was tapping his foot like this:

tap-tap tap-TAP-TAP-TAP
TAP-tap-TAP-TAP-TAP
TAP-TAP-tap-tap-TAP-TAP-tap-TAP-TAP

He was signaling "I am not gay" in Morse Code.

[flying Elvis]

Wow, I guess I won’t be tempted to tap my foot while listening to my I-pod on the crapper, or engage in dueling foottapping with my neighbor. lol

[Prokopton]

Soliciting sex in a public restroom is disgusting. But I’m not so sure the “evidence” the police had would convict someone “beyond a reasonable doubt”.

[ElkGroveDan]

I hope they throw the book at the whole lot of these sick bastards.

This past weekend I had to tell my son he couldn’t go to the movies with his 13 year old sister. I didn’t say why, but at his age she can’t take him into the ladies room and he sure as hell isn’t going into a public mens room by himself thanks to demented perverts like these

[finnman69]

When I was at Cornell, a friend came back from the main library and told an unbelievable story. He went to the bathroom and glanced towards the stalls. There was one guy crouched down squatting on his knees facing the stall next door. In the other stall someone else was doing the same, except they had their head down there as well.

Public bathrooms are gay cruising spots at liberal arts universities, such as the on Keith Olbermann attended.

[M203M4]

Next week on Animal Planet - gay bathroom sex and its secret mating rituals.

(Rated PG)

[csn vinnie]

Don’t tell me he was — gasp! — paradiddling?

(A little sick drummer humor there.)

[kilowhskey]

The article mentioned that Senator Craig positioned his luggage at the stall door in an attempt to conceal the intended activity. In San Francisco, gay men take two shopping bags into the stall. They both stand in the bags, so no one can see that the two of them are “engaged.”

[Past Your Eyes]

ROFLMAO!!!

[elizabetty]

Around here were are more interested in toe curling.

[goldstategop]

Be careful who you tap your foot to in a public bathroom.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Popocatapetl]

[G Larry]

Someone on a news discussion panel said:

“I thought 3 taps meant ‘pass the sports section’.”

[Drango]

Note to self: Do NOT take Ipod into restroom stall.

[Rome2000]

[vox humana]

Senator Craig I Am

I am not gay with a coked up page
I am not gay with the underaged
I am not gay when I tap your foot
I am not gay keep your big mouth shut
I am not gay in a bathroom stall
I am not gay, not gay at all

I am not gay with a wide, wide stance
I am not gay in my senator pants
I am not gay with a cat in a hat
Here's my card--what do you think of that?
I am not gay in a bathroom stall
I am not gay, not gay at all

I am not gay in an Idaho paper
I am not gay please hide my caper
I am not gay in my childless marriage
I am not gay in a baby carriage
I am not gay in a bathroom stall
I am not gay, not gay at all

I am not gay with an undercover dick
I am not gay--no, not a lick
I saw some paper on the floor
I picked it up--no, nothing more
I am not gay in a bathroom stall
I am not gay, not gay at all

Let me be clear, I am not vague
I dearly love my Mrs. Craig
I am not a sad old perv
My only desire is to serve
I am not gay in a bathroom stall
I am not gay, not gay at all

[uptoolate]

ruff - kick - slpashhhhhhh