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09/07/2007


Minneapolis' Newest Tourist Attraction: “Yes…Yes it is.”

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What to do on your next layover, so to speak.

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  1. I wonder how many times I've merely peed in this bathroom, having no idea of the sheer nastiness occuring possibly a few feet away.
    Isn't it illegal to take photographs in a public restroom?

    Posted by: scientitian | Sep 7, 2007 8:13:37 AM


  2. That is the most HILARIOUS thing I've read all week! I want to go to Minneapolis now!

    Posted by: MT | Sep 7, 2007 8:47:05 AM


  3. i'll be in the airport this weekend and want to see the new attraction. is there a map identifying its location within the airport?

    Posted by: RG | Sep 7, 2007 9:12:05 AM


  4. omg...we were just there. i wasn't sure which was THE restroom, but it certainly fun to take a whiz in craigland.

    Posted by: LD | Sep 7, 2007 10:44:52 AM


  5. And Dave Karsnia the cop who arrested Craig will soon be featured as yet another straight guy on the cover of OUT magazine. He's still holding out for more money to appear in a centerfold wearing nothing but a jock strap and his gun belt while holding his nightstick against a 10 Most Wanted poster featuring pictures of Anderson Cooper, Jodie Foster, Sen. Craig, Ken Mehlman, Karl Rove, FL Gov. Crist, Kevin Spacey, Fred Phelps, and two others blocked by the huge bulge in Karsnia's jock. For $5000 more he'll lift one leg and show pink.

    Posted by: Leland Frances | Sep 7, 2007 10:54:59 AM


  6. This is f'ing hysterical. Now I want to go there too if I'm ever at MSP.

    Someone should make a small bronze plaque and surreptitiously place it at the scene.

    Posted by: tjc | Sep 7, 2007 11:01:48 AM


  7. This just in: Love & Pride has announced a new jewelry line featuring other beefcake pix of Karsnia to be called "BUST NAKED." Made of metal melted from confiscated guns, the line will feature a tiny reproduction of his badge bracketed by similar reproductions of the shoes he was wearing when he tap danced with Craig. 10% of anything that's left after everyone at Love & Pride go to the Bahamas will be donated to a fund for the victims of Minneapolis Airport motorized cart accidents, the management of which was Karsnia's previous claim to fame.

    Posted by: Leland Frances | Sep 7, 2007 11:03:18 AM


  8. Ooh, ooh -- also, a set of footprints pasted on the floor of the stall in Craig's shoesize so you too can try a "wide stance!"

    Posted by: tjc | Sep 7, 2007 11:08:57 AM


  9. Hey Leland, why all the anti-Karsnia talk? Nothing I've seen or read about him seems anti-gay. Did I miss something, or is this (admittedly mild) vitriol directed at bathroom sting operations in general?

    Posted by: tjc | Sep 7, 2007 11:11:57 AM


  10. Some creative photographer should do a coffee table book of pictures of public restrooms where the careers of homophobic politicians were "blown".

    There would be so much material to choose from it would take weeks of editing to narrow it down to the 100 most interesting.

    Posted by: Zeke | Sep 7, 2007 11:24:55 AM


  11. For Revenue Growth purposes, airport authorities should consider installing coin slots in those urinals, so when a quarter is dropped inside, a hidden glory hole behind the mosaic in front of you reveals, opens up and out comes this dildo toy that offers you 30" to play a little with it while you do your thing.
    Of course, it comes out soft. Boner activation requires insertion of a $5 bill.
    Kaching?

    Posted by: Cristian | Sep 7, 2007 11:31:42 AM


  12. I remember there used to be a moblog that was dedicated to photographs taken on mobile phones while people were in a bathroom (whether public or their own).

    They were always taken with no one else in the room, and I thought they were pretty funny.

    MSP bathrooms are now going to become a tourist attraction :-)

    Posted by: Heath | Sep 7, 2007 11:35:49 AM


  13. TJC...any undercover officer who hangs out in public restrooms for the express purpose of busting men who are there to have sex with other men is, by default, homophobic. And before people start hysterically screaming that sex in public is illegal and anyone who is busted having sex in a public place deserves it, consider this story:

    Last week I was in Berlin. One day, I met up with an old friend to having lunch. Our conversation turned to German attitudes about public sex and nudity. My friend told me that in warmer months, Berliners flock to Tiergarten Park, a huge park in the middle of the city that is roughly equivalent to New York City's Central Park, to sunbathe...and almost everyone sunbathes nude. He also told me that sections of the park are frequented by gay men who are there to hook up and have sex in the bushes. According to my friend, the locals find nothing wrong with this behavior so long as it doesn't occur right out in the open spaces. Best of all, the police don't see it as their job to arrest guys for having sex in public in the park. Instead, they see it as their job to protect the gay men (who might or might not be having sex) from being bashed by homophobes. Now *that* is the sort of police force I want to be funded with my tax dollars...not the kind of police force that is out on a witch hunt for anyone not having heterosexual, married, missionary position sex in their bedroom with the door closed and all the lights turned off.

    Posted by: peterparker | Sep 7, 2007 1:55:31 PM


  14. Real tearoom footage below. TJC: luved your footprints idea. And Zeke's coffee table book idea. LOL

    Yes, my slams against Karsnia are based on his willingness to participate in these stings. And, please, anyone, spare me repeating his protestations of not being antigay during his interrogation of Craig. Proves nothing. Bush, Romney, McCain, et al., claim the same thing.

    Not that I support freewheeling public sex per se, but I agree with those who say that such things as patrols by uniformed cops would both be a better deterrent and one that wouldn't ruin lives that are otherwise innocent [unlike fascist Craig].

    And to respond to someone's comment in a thread several days ago regarding our having to worry about cameras—I'm unaware of any present usage but if you go to the link below and click on one of the links under Online Cinema you will, pun intended, be blown away—for several different reasons—when you watch actual film taken of tearoom sex during a famous sting operation years ago in Mansfield, Ohio. NOT SAFE FOR WORK. REPEAT. NOT SAFE FOR WORK!

    http://www.planetout.com/popcornq/db/getfilm.html?11075

    Posted by: Leland Frances | Sep 7, 2007 2:10:18 PM


  15. Ya know Leland,
    I think I actually agree here. I mean, I've always wondered why they don't just patrol with uniforms on?

    Posted by: Derrick | Sep 7, 2007 6:20:36 PM


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