Posted on 08/07/2004 10:34:39 PM PDT by ambrose
Park Still A Hotbed For Illicit Sex Threatened Crackdown So Far Has Little Effect
August 7, 2004
By GARY LIBOW, Courant Staff Writer
HADDAM -- Word of an impending police undercover crackdown on illicit sexual activity at Seven Falls State Park doesn't appear to have deterred gay men looking for an encounter.
On Friday at 3 p.m., men sat in two vehicles in the lower parking lot of the state park, located just over the Haddam-Middletown border. On Thursday afternoon, several cars were parked alongside Route 154 as well as in the lower lot.
Resident Trooper Jim Connelly said that state police are teaming with state Department of Environmental Protection police to combat lewd behavior that is keeping hikers and picnickers out of the park.
"A sting operation is in the works," Connelly said Thursday from his town hall office.
"We will be in there periodically, unannounced and undercover."
Two years ago, an undercover operation netted about 10 arrests after gay men touched undercover officers, Connelly said.
"They usually approached us. They are very open over there," the resident trooper said. "They will walk up to you or stand there and rub in places they shouldn't be rubbing."
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Department of Environmental Protection police. How is this hurting the enviroment? I am all for nailing these guy's. But what a teamup!!
"I am all for nailing these guy's."
YOU'RE BUSTED, PERVERT! ;)
12 gauge rock-salt loads should be about right.
A few bunches of firecrackers or quarter sticks of dynamite!
Loserdopians do not have a problem with their behavior. It is not hurting anyone else.
LOL!
How about raiding Balboa Park in San Diego? When I lived there, they were having hard time getting the gays to stop having "long lunch hours" by the merry-go round.
Same is true of Griffith Park here in Los Angeles. Don't dare pull into a scenic pull off. It's so disgusting.
It's no wonder people don't go to parks anymore. Environazis strive to keep decent folks out of the good ones. Gays, child molestors, and worse have overrrun half of the rest.
”Guns Before Butter.”
Amazingly you'll find that a good portion of those arrested are married "straight" men! Tends to happen - imagine you felt you had to marry a man but were attracted to women? (What, world gone mad! But think about it, could society really force you to change teams?) If you knew you could meet a woman in a park who was like minded (interested in the opposite rather then same sex) would you consider it?
Shoot, Clinton was married to a ma...Hillary and still had to sneak around the White House.
Not saying it is right or I agree with it, but the pressures are there!
It isn't society's fault - that's a bunch of bull - but just look at the posts in this one thread and think how alienating they must be.
DKK
Well you obviously haven't cleaned up a movie theatre, walked along a beach at night, looked too closely at the other fans at the ballpark, taken a public bus because heterosexuals *do* have / want public sex & public sexual contact. One more thing... you have heard of ex-GOP Illinois US Senate candidate Jack Ryan, right?
When did you live there? Were you homeless? Homeless in Balboa Park was a big problem. ;) There were raids in the 1990's but I haven't heard of anything lately be it problems or raids, actually not that I tune into that. The last "big story" I recall about "public" gay sex was solicitations / hookups in SDSU bathrooms. It happens/ed at UCSD also; I once knew a gay man who claimed to engage in such behavior. Anyway, with the story I recall, KGTV Channel 10's "hidden camera reporter" got in trouble for recording in the men's bathroom. She(?) maybe was even soliciting.
Funny, when I saw the story headline I clicked expected it to be a San Diego story. I guess all those Balboa Park raids... and considering Balboa Park is on par with NYC's Central Park in size... Carry on!
If people would pick up after themselves, things would be a whole lot cleaner!
They probably thought it was a B & D party and they didn't want to miss anything.
Sexual Freedom Activists Target 'Archaic, Unjust' Sex Laws
In addition, the project will examine laws against public lewdness, "which are routinely misused to persecute and prosecute people who participate in non-traditional forms of sexual expression.""I've seen firsthand how the misuse of these [public lewdness] laws has ruined the lives of gay and bisexual men," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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