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The ever well meaning Starbucks chairman, Howie Schultz, more terrified of bad publicity and claims of racism than anything in the world, has just announced a rather customer-unfriendly policy of opening Starbucks bathrooms (as well as table space) to all comers, including people who won't spring for a $4 cup of coffee. Speaking to the Atlantic Council, Schultz said: "We don't want to become a public bathroom, but we're going to make the right decision a hundred percent of the time and give people the key," Schultz said, "because we don't want anyone at Starbucks to feel as if we...

Officers arrested a 35-year-old Crockett man Tuesday afternoon for loitering with lewd intentions near a public restroom at Heather Farm Park, according to a Walnut Creek police alert. The charge against Ryan Meulpolder was loitering about a public restroom for the purpose of engaging in a lewd act. "Over the past several weeks the Walnut Creek Police Department has received complaints from the public about lewd activity occurring in and around public restrooms at Heather Farms Park," the WCPD alert stated. "The restrooms in question are on the southern end of the park across the street from a playground and...

Claudio X. Pinto, who lived in Hermosa Beach at the time of his arrest in March, is due in court in Torrance on Aug. 21 to have a date set to face trial on a charge of loitering "about toilet to solicit lewd acts," according to a Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman. Pinto, 48, was one of 18 men arrested by Manhattan Beach police when they conducted surveillance of a public restroom on the beach at Marine Avenue. MBPD acted in response to a request from L.A. County lifeguards who'd noticed increased pedestrian traffic near the bathrooms, the same...

The recurring problem of men trolling for other men in county parks drew attention anew late last month when a physical therapist was arrested for the second time in six years for exposing himself in a public restroom on Wabasso Causeway. Christopher Boyden, 48, who goes by the name Bhaja Boyden at Compass Medical on 14th Street where he is a physical therapist and administrator, was arrested when a 34-year-old man accused him of snapping photographs of the alleged victim as he used the restroom, and then sat naked in an open restroom stall masturbating. Boyden, who six years ago...

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Open nudity and sexual acts on a southwest Florida beach. It's a known problem at one Lee County hot spot, but some of you say it's getting worse. You want to know what's being done about it. Bunche Beach has been in the headlines as a place where X-rated behavior has been an issue. Is it still a problem -- despite a sheriff's department crackdown? Bunche Beach in Fort Myers is known for its name, its view, and more recently as a place, according to the Sheriff's Office, where homosexuals gather to expose themselves and in...

(snip)... Cabarrus County - [David Nelson] Judy was released from the Cabarrus County jail Monday on $40,000 bond. In Saturday's incident, the 5-year-old boy had been traveling from Tampa, Fla., with his mother and her boyfriend to their home in Newport News, Va., when they stopped at the northbound rest area at about 3:30 p.m. The boy and his two older brothers, ages 10 and 6, went to use the bathroom while their mother waited in the hall and her boyfriend cleaned out the car, police said. The 5-year-old entered a restroom stall, the boyfriend said. When the 10-year-old boy...