If you haven’t been following the George Michael R. Kelly Senator Larry Craig “Trapped in the Stall” Scandal, you’re missing out on some fine, fine comedy. 

The long and the short of it is that Senator Craig, a conservative Republican and fierce opponent of gay rights, was arrested at the Minnesota/Saint Paul Airport for soliciting sex in the men’s room…from, you guessed it, a dude.  Though married with kids and grandkids, there have been whispers about his sexuality since the mid-80’s.

Anyway, the details of the arrest are hilarious (emphasis all mine):

According to the prosecutor’s complaint, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, airport police Sgt. Dave Karsnia, who was investigating allegations of sexual conduct in airport restrooms, went into a stall shortly after noon on June 11 and closed the door.

Minutes later, the officer saw Craig gazing into his stall through the crack between the stall door and the frame.

After a man in the adjacent stall left, Craig entered it and put his roller bag against the front of the stall door, “which Sgt. Karsnia’s experience has indicated is used to attempt to conceal sexual conduct by blocking the view from the front of the stall,” said the complaint, which was dated June 25.

The complaint said Craig then tapped his right foot several times and moved it closer to Karsnia’s stall and then moved it to where it touched Karsnia’s foot. Karsnia recognized that “as a signal often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct,” the complaint said.

Craig then passed his left hand under the stall divider into Karsnia’s stall with his palms up and guided it along the divider toward the front of the stall three times, the complaint said.

The officer then showed his police identification under the divider and pointed toward the exit - at which time the defendant exclaimed “No!” the complaint said.

Forget for a moment that you just got your ass kicked on the subject “How to Cruise” by an old, conservative Idaho Republican; he was totally interuppted mid-cruise and exclaimed, “No!”

Man, gone are the days of the red bandana.  If they ever, ever make Cruising 2, Al Pacino’s got some good material to study…

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