Craig Bathroom Sex Assertion . . .. .. .Who Can Explain This To Me ?

Question

I've not followed the story very closely and would like to get up-to-date on it now . From the little that I know about it , I understand that he made 'hand-signals' and tapped his feet . Did he plead guilty or no contest ?
Is everyone mad at him because he's gay(even though I know he denied being gay) or for some other reason ?
Was the person in the stall next to him an adult or a minor ?
Are there certain 'hand-signals' that are against the law ?

I would appreciate a complete listing of the details .
Thank you .

Answer 1

This is the best report I have read. You can download the complaint if you wish also. It is from the local paper. http://wcco.com/local/local_story_239182219.html

Anyone covering for this pervert is just as sick as this guy. Cut him loose and take away his cushy government pension. We don't need any more perverts in congress then we already have.

Answer 2

Here's the way I understand it Earnest, without accessing an article that has all the details:

He's had rumors swirling around him since the 1980's of being a gay man on the down low. Just a few months back a local newpaper in Iowa was investigating reports that Craig cruises restrooms for hookups. What kills me is that he knew about their investigation and still did it again. Anyway, it was an undercover police officer who encountered Craig in the restroom and received his advances. He didn't just tap his feet, he finished by sliding his foot over and touching the officer's foot in the next stall with his own. But he says he has a "wide stance." God I could hardly type that without laughing. He was arrested for soliciting sex/lewd behavior by the officer in the next stall. Then, knowing he's had numerous accusations of the same behavior before, he pleads guilty to the charges, hoping it will not be noticed. Anyone, especially a Senator, knowing they were being closely looked at for this very behavior, would not plead guilty if they were innocent when arrested. They would loudly protest their innocence and make a big deal out of it to prove their innocence instead of pleading guilty, not even calling a lawyer, and just hoping it would go away. Believing this was all a setup or a mistake would strain the credulity of a 10 year old.

No, hand signals or foot tapping are not against the law. But the hand signals he used, the foot tapping and the rubbing of his foot against the man in the next stall are well known signals between those who get their sex from bathroom hookups. Also, he peered directly into the next stall to make eye contact with the officer. Who does that? The man is guilty, period, and he ought to resign immediately.

Answer 3

Basic run down of the details:

Cops received complaints about homosexual hookups in the restroom at an airport.

Cops decided to monitor the restroom.

Craig came in the restroom, and looked at the undercover cop in the stall through the little slits at the sides of the door.

When the stall to the side (I believe it was the left) of the cop became available, Craig went in.

Craig placed his wheeled bag against the door, a common habit with those who have sex so they can sort of block the view of what's going on.

Craig tapped his foot, which is a signal often used to express interest in anonymous airport bathroom gay sex.

Craig moved his foot over and touched the cop's foot under the divider.

Craig made hand movements under the divider, another signal frequently used to express interest in anonymous airport bathroom gay sex.

The cop, after feeling quite certain he was being propositioned, showed his badge.

Craig immediately responded with, "No!".

On being taken to another room in the airport, he asked what was going to happen to him. As far as I know he didn't think to deny he was soliciting until later.

Those are the facts with which I am acquainted. He participated in behaviors which are associated, especially in that particular restroom, with inviting someone to have a sexual encounter. It was already a problem in that particular restroom, and he got busted. He solicited a cop. Sex in bathrooms is not legal, nor is soliciting it in bathrooms. The exception to that is bathrooms at home, by the way.

I believe he pled guilty, but it may have been no contest. I don't remember which. I think he has recanted.

The reason people are mad is because he has been denouncing homosexuals, and he is one, or at least is bisexual. I suspect that there are a fair number of Republicans who are also mad at him simply because he is gay, and got caught.

As stated above, the person in the stall was an adult male police officer.

Hand signals are not against the law, but soliciting sex in a public restroom is. Those were the hand signals he was using. The actual signals vary from place to place, but I have been told by my male friends, both gay and straight, that there are definite signals which are well-known. Putting your foot into the next stall and touching the foot of the person next to you is a very popular one.

I would just add that since I am female, I can only tell you about female restrooms. I have never had someone move their feet under the divider, which is one of the things that Craig claims to have been accidental, and just a matter of the "stance" he takes while using the toilet. I find that a bit weird, since women must, by necessity, do some things in restrooms which require them to move their legs quite far apart. The only stalls I have ever seen in my life where a person's feet could possibly stray accidentally are those in a bathroom designed for children, where everything is miniaturized. Those bathrooms are hilarious, because if you stand up, the stalls are so short you can see over the tops and the doors. They are just right for little kids, however. I don't believe the restroom in question was designed for children. Also, I have had the experience while in a public restroom of having the woman next to me tap the divider politely and ask if there is TP in my stall. I think that may be fairly common, as I have had it happen more than once. They don't stick their hands under the divider, though. You just grab a bunch and sort of hand it off under the divider, and they say thanks, and you both laugh. It isn't solicitation--it's sharing TP.

So, that's what I know. I know some people are simply delighted that he's taken this particular tumble. I just feel sorry for him. It's too bad that we live in an environment where people feel they need to be closeted.

Answer 4

I've never heard of people wanting to get me to have sex in the bathroom. I mean, I've seen jokes on TV and movies, but no, not in all my male life. So I was first shocked at this story that the sentor did this.

Senator Craig was arrested by a police officer in plain clothes (I do not belive he was on a stake out or undercover), as there were no other arrests that day or that week, and even the interview wasn't conducted on site. Further the police officer didn't even have a badge to show him, but rather wrote this down on paper and placed it on the floor by reaching under his stall that he was a police officer.

Specifically the Police Officer and Sentor Craig aruged over a few points:

First the Sentors allegedly entered the bathroom stall at an airport (imagine a Senator in a airport bathroom). Before entering the stall the sentor appeared to look through cracks of other stalls first (I do this so I don't barge in). He then entered the stall with his belongings (brief case, coat), again I don't leave my belonging outside the stall in an airport as it is against FAA regualtions, but the police officer did not arrest others who failed to maintain posession of belongings. The police officer asserted that looking through the cracks from a distance (I don't mean his eyeball against the stall) is a sign of being gay, then when the senator brough his bags into the stall this was a sign of being gay, then when the senator placed his bags between himself and the stall door (blocking the view) this was a sign. By the way, where else will the senator put his bags in the stall (behind him?, left and right are normally narrow so not to the side, what's left above, this aint a plane).

Once the stall, after doing 4 gay things: looking first, bring his bags, positioning them between himself and the stall door, and sitting in the stall next to another man (go figure) that the strange stuff happened. The Sentor while in the toilet tapped his foot once. That's right! A fricken tap. Honestly I've been thinking that maybe my toe made a tapping noise a few times. I mean he probably wears shoes, and the stall is probably tile, and he was trying to do a #2, so how do you explain a tap is a cry for sex. Then the senator admitted to picking up the paper with the words police officer on the card. He was accused of being gay and socliting sex based on picking this up. The officer lied when he said there was no paper on the floor as the officer handed him his card. Further the officer lied when he claimed the Senators hand reached under the toilet wall stall as the officer reached into the Sentors stall with his hand to pass over the written badge.

Poor sentor craig--this Grandfatherly man simply took dump next to an off duty cop who wanted sex. The cop wrote his number on the paper, but the senator was too dumb to understand and the cop arrested him to protect his own guilt. They spent 40 mins at the airport so the cop could explain to everyone who didn't know he was undercover (because he wasn't), and then later when it was all out he had to argue with the Senator on the phone calling him a liar because he needed a confession to protect himself.

Crazy story and I hope the cop is sent to prison one day because what does around comes around (no pun intended).

Answer 5

He pled guilty to disorderly conduct which could have been nothing more than arguing with the officer...he did not plead guilty to any sex crime nor did he actually have sex in the bathroom...he also denies the allegations...it's a case of he said he said unless someone can produce a video...If he's guilty he needs to go.


Update:
I just read the police report for the first time...I don't get it...What exactly did Craig do?
If this was a sting operation where is the video proof?
here's the link to the report...I really don't know what to think...
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/craig_report.pdf

Answer 6

from what i have read, he plead guilty, but not to an indecency charge, it has been reported that whatever charge there was, was reduced to disorderly conduct. i don't know why people are mad at him, im just a little grossed out. the person next to him was a cop. the hand signals were said to be part of a recognizable behavior for soliciting a lewd act (sex in public is illegal, i guess requesting it is illegal too.)

Answer 7

It sounded bogus--even tho', as a Liberal I'd like to point fingers and laugh etc., BUT, he pled "guilty". No, there's nothing wrong or illegal about being gay, but Craig has been a long-time "family values" advocate, a Clinton basher (about the sex part) AND married!!!

And, according to reports, he was soliciting sex in a men's room. The guy in the next stall was an undercover cop!

Answer 8

Senator Craig is not gay. What happened was the gay cop in the next stall waiting to be solicited for sex got pissed because the Senator used the wrong hand and foot signals and the gay cop thought the Senator was bashing him through signals, so he busted the good Senator.

Answer 9

Soliciting sex, whether gay or not, is illegal in public places and falls under "lewd conduct." These laws are to prevent prostitution mostly, and are the same as the laws used to prosecute George Michael in an LA bathroom which was a gay pickup spot (just like the airport bathroom apparently).
When I first heard he had his foot wide and brushed against the other guy, I thought it was at the stand-up urinals and that could happen to anybody - then I read it was in the separate stalls!
Imagine how wide your feet would have to be or under what circumstances you might be brushing your feet against the guy's in the stalls next to you!
Just be gay, Craig!

Answer 10

The way I heard it in the news he plead guilty and has now sort of recanted his plea, saying that he entered the plea just because he wanted to make the case go away and that in retrospect he should have talked to a lawyer first before the plea.

People are mad at him partly because they think that soliciting sex in a public men's room is sleasy but mostly because they think of the guy as a hypocrite being that he is a "family-values" Republican who has consistantly been opposed to anything that smacks of "gay rights."

The man in the next stall was an adult undercover policeman.

"Hand signals" are not against the law. It's the solicitation of "lewd behavior," ............................................ although I keep thinking to myself that the Supreme Court had just declared, four years ago, that "sodomy laws" are unconstitutional.

Answer 11

Earnest: Have not found the full details but since the Republicans are viewed as the evil party what ever he did will cause a groundswell of hate from the far left and demands for more Republican resignations. If he did do what the press is bringing up he does need to resign but my biggest problem with this is the democrats as they did in the Foley case tend to now brand all Republicans with this while when Barney Frank and his having a gay sex club run out of his home by an aide and William Jefferson having used his position in office to solicit bribes we are not aloud to insinuate that other democrats are guilty also or that these men should resign from office.