Posted on 09/01/2007 9:03:41 PM PDT by ventanax5
The catchphrase of America's famous cowboy humorist Will Rogers was "Never met a man I didn't like." Judging from the activities at the men's room of the Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, many of the patrons of said facility evidently feel the same way. George Michael, the stubbly boy rocker of the Eighties, was arrested therein for attempting to play footsie with an undercover cop. "Guilty feet have got no rhythm," as George famously observed on his hit song "Careless Whisper." After pleading no contest, he subsequently made a rock video mocking the arresting officer, with George prancing around in police uniform twirling his night stick
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He had me dying on Hewitt’s show; Barnett was sitting in so it was double crazy.
At the townhall site. Talk radio.
I found many men didn’t know the code; I thought it was a good time to post this just in case:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw
LOL
It creeps me out just reading this news story. Two Creepy men , doing creepy things, in a creepy bathroom. Ewwwwww
If I got to take a leak I go do what I need to do as quickly as possible. Any thing beyond that I wait until I get home.
Without agreed “moral standards,” all you have is the law. When it’s no longer clear something is wrong, all you can do is make it illegal.
Sadly I fear that is where we are today.
George Michael, to the vice cop: “If you wanna do it, do it right (right!), do it with me...”
"Just so. Sgt. Karsnia is paid by the police Department to sit in a stall in the men's room all day, like a spider waiting for the flies. The Baron von Richthoven of the Minneapolis Bathroom Patrol has notched up a phenomenal number of kills and knows what to look for – the tapping foot in the adjoining stall, a hand signal under the divider. Did you know that tapping your foot in a bathroom was a recognized indicator that a criminal act is about to occur?"
Few cops - even vice cops - would care to go in to that line of work. I think even the legendary Baron Richthoven didn't have that many kills in his Red Baron. I sorta pity St. Karsnia for being alert to feet being tapped in the wrong direction!
"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
I pray the senator does not kill himself and he can live with this, if society will allow it to fade away...
This is a tragic story for all around and who ever leak this with out more facts should also face the public humiliation!
I 'bout DIED laughing! Steyn is the Greatest.
As it happens, I passed by the very same men's room at the Lindbergh Terminal only a couple of months ago. I didn't go in, however.
Yep, before Larry Craig's infamous encounter became public knowledge, you wouldn't have known of Steyn's own encounter with coincidence!
"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
Your inability to live up to your own standards does not, in and of itself, nullify them. The left gives the impression that a Republican senator caught in a whorehouse ought immediately to say, "You're right. I should have supported earmarks for hookers in the 2005 appropriations bill." That's the reason why sex scandals take down Republicans but not Democrats: Sex-wise, the left's standards are that whatever's your bag is cool – which is the equivalent of no standards. Thus, Monica Lewinsky was a "grown woman" free to make her own decisions on the carpet of the Oval Office. Without agreed "moral standards," all you have is the law. When it's no longer clear something is wrong, all you can do is make it illegal.Good article (also humorous, as usual)...he made some valid points here...likely Craig is guilty...OTOH...are we all to be concerned about how we tap our feet, or where we place our bags? 1984....Big Brother anyone????And so we have the bizarre situation of a United States senator convicted of the crime of brushing his foot and placing his carry-on luggage in the only available space of a men's room stall. Larry Craig feebly accused Sgt. Karsnia of "entrapping" him but, in fact, the officer didn't even need to entrap him into anything other than an allegedly intrusive shoe movement. That's a crime? On the tape, Craig sounds sad and pathetic, a prominent man cornered in a sordid transaction. Yet Karsnia sounds just as weird and creepy: a guy who's paid to sit in a bathroom stall for hours on end observing adjoining ankles. I'd rather hand out traffic tickets.
And so we have the bizarre situation of a United States senator convicted of the crime of brushing his foot and placing his carry-on luggage in the only available space of a men's room stall. Larry Craig feebly accused Sgt. Karsnia of "entrapping" him but, in fact, the officer didn't even need to entrap him into anything other than an allegedly intrusive shoe movement. That's a crime? On the tape, Craig sounds sad and pathetic, a prominent man cornered in a sordid transaction. Yet Karsnia sounds just as weird and creepy: a guy who's paid to sit in a bathroom stall for hours on end observing adjoining ankles. I'd rather hand out traffic tickets.
There's nothing about this episode that makes any one think any good came of it. The foot-tapping may have constituted questionable grounds for suspecting a crime but the subsequent interrogation leaves one feeling mystified at how a mundane event could turn out to be both pathetic and sordid at the same time.
"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
I have to defend the cop, here. In fact, the cop who gets caught up in the underworld he seeks to police is a common theme. Most notably, ironically enough, in CRUISING, which is so un-PC as to be RIGHT OUT. In this case, based on the post-arrest interview, I thought the cop represented himself as a technician. There certainly was a lot of psychology in operation though, in the way he kept his distance. He kept mentioning “respect”, and seemed to indicate that most of his, um, detainees, readily confessed to what they were up to, and that he pretty much showered them with respect in the spirit of reciprocity. He reacted to Craig’s stonewalling by saying that Craig was disrespecting him. Of course we all know that cops hate being lied to, just because they get so sick of it.
It is interesting the way the cop was trying to orthogonalize the whole thing. It reminded me of several scenes in CRUISING which showed the moral disorientation of Pacino. I’m thinking of “cop night”, and the scene where he shows a yellow handkerchief as a come-on, and gets upbraided by some guy when he backs off from an invitation to “water sports”.
Damn right!
Important point.
As it happens, I passed by the very same men's room at the Lindbergh Terminal only a couple of months ago. I didn't go in, however.
Yep, before Larry Craig's infamous encounter became public knowledge, you wouldn't have known of Steyn's own encounter with coincidence!
While I'm not familiar with this particular airport, I don't find it at all unusual that Steyn could remember having passed the men's room there without going in. He doesn't say anything about deliberately avoiding the men's room because of any fear of entrapment.
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