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Senator Craig would be proud...
I’m a heterosexual and I’ve never had sex with a woman in a public bathroom. Why do these perverts have to ruin public bathrooms for decent folks and kids?
Unfortunately malls are breeding grounds for this type of thing especially ones built with hotels in them. This is where the kids are and they are going to be taken advantage of one way or another.
A high school health teacher...how nice. I wonder what he has been up to with his pupils. Shaking my head again. Why can't these pervs just stay in the closet & out of the bathrooms? I don't understand why anyone would want sex in a public bathroom with a stranger. They know there are cops looking in bathrooms. Are they thrill seekers or just plain dumb?
Saw this thread and was positive that the pervert Barney Frank would be on the list of those arrested.
Thank goodness we have a few people left who are willing to stand up and call it like it is. Sick, degenerate, and vile...kudos to Chief Chitwood. The protests will probably start tomorrow.
This looks like the mall just across the street from Daytona Speedway.
Just to give you a point of reference.
I hope the department offers psych counseling to the surveillance officer. Ten hours waiting in a stinky stall waiting for homos to hit on you can rattle your emotional state.
I thought that name sounded familiar:
Chitwood came to Daytona Beach via Oklahoma, but he comes from Philadelphia, where he and his cop father share the city's best-known name in law enforcement. Chitwood has a good reputation.
They sure are giving tap dancing a bad name.
They were born with a homosexual head gene.
How'd that quote go "As it was in the days before Noah ......"?
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DAYTONA BEACH -- A former Daytona Beach city commissioner and a local high school teacher were among nine men arrested Thursday during a sex sting in a bathroom at the Volusia Mall, police said.
Detectives arrested former commissioner and mayoral candidate Michael Shallow and David Behringer, an athletic trainer and teacher at Seabreeze High School, according to arrest reports.
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"The reason that we did this sting is we all go to the mall; our kids go into the bathroom," Police Chief Mike Chitwood said. "That they could be susceptible to this kind of behavior is absolutely a disgrace."
Also arrested were registered sex offender Douglas Benson, 48, of Port Orange, who was previously caught masturbating in the restroom of a day care center; and Edgar Millard, 73, Daytona Beach, charged in 2006 with sexual misconduct at a beachside bathroom, police said.
Detectives received a tip from officials at the Sears department store that sexual misconduct was taking place in its second-floor men's restroom, Chitwood said.
Further investigation by police found that encounters at local places like Sears were advertised online on Web sites like Craigslist and one that provides links to other sexually explicit sites, Chitwood said.
"This is a clandestine, subculture event," Chitwood said at a Thursday night press conference. "There's a whole culture that runs under the radar doing their thing."
A team of six officers from the Police Department's criminal suppression team joined forces with undercover officers from Volusia County Beach Patrol to nab the offenders from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday. The Beach Patrol regularly deals with similar misconduct at public bathrooms near the beach, Chitwood said.
"Most everything that's occurring is nonverbal," said Sgt. Jeff Hoffman, supervisor of the criminal suppression team.
Offenders coughed or sneezed, tapped their feet, sometimes under the stall beside them, or made loud zipper noises to attract attention from others interested in engaging in sexual acts, Hoffman said.
"It's scumbags like this that erode the quality of life that we have here," Chitwood said. "What scares me is that these are people that we trust to be political leaders, these are people that we trust with our children."
Shallow, 57, served two terms as a city commissioner from 1999-2003 and ran for mayor unsuccessfully in 2003, 2005 and 2007, finishing a distant fourth in the last race Oct. 9.
The Realtor and real estate broker also served as chairman of the Main Street Redevelopment Board in 2004-2005, and was on the Downtown-Ballough Road Redevelopment Board while he was a commissioner.
Daytona Beach Mayor Glenn Ritchey said he was "disappointed and sad and sorry for him and his wife and family."
"There's nothing I can say. I've known him for a long time. I was shocked. It's such a sad thing," Ritchey said.
Neil Harrington, a personal friend of Shallow's, was shocked at the arrest.
"I just can't believe that; I have no indication that Mike would ever be involved in anything like that," Harrington said.
Others arrested in the sting include Sebastian Bach, 37, Panama City; Larry Brown, 42, DeBary; William Volage, 46, and Kenneth Halpin, 44, both of Ormond Beach; and Ransom Peterson, 73, Port Orange.
Representatives for Sears and the Volusia Mall could not be reached for comment Thursday night.
-- Staff Writer Pamela Hasterok contributed to this report.
Thanks to this article and the publicity around the senator I’ve learned a few things about public rest rooms.
I had best not pick up anything I drop.
I had best not allow my foot to stray too close to an adjoining stall.
I had best not tap my foot - no listening to music!
I had best not unzip my zipper. Uh, that might present a problem. Guess I’ll just stay home.
Its a double edged sword, as you stand there waiting to make sure some pervert doesn't bother him.......everyone else wonders why your standing over by the sink and I'm looking at other guys who are waiting for their kids too, trying to figure out if they are the perverts.
Sheesh
“they would tap their feet, zip their zipper, make all kinds of noises and even reach under the stall...”
Remind me not to tap my feet, zip my zipper, or make noises in a public rest room. Hopefully, they’ve got some better evidence than this, but I would not count on it.
It’s bad enough that people act like this in public but it’s worrisome that a person that does , is even in there. I have several small grandchildren. We go out a lot. I take them with me into the women’s bathroom. The oldest boy is 7 and I noticed a couple of weeks ago that he is starting to get unconfortable with that. If it’s a small bathroom I check out that the men’s is empty first but I can’t always do that. I don’t want to make a baby out of him but I’m concerned about safety. Any suggestions?