My daughter's former principal was arrested for exposing himself!!!!

I agree, Aaron. In each of my posts, I've never said anything negative about him being bi-sexual or gay. I know him personally. He is a pompous ass, but then, there are many pompous asses, gay, straight or bi. If you're going to be a pompous ass, don't pull out your weiner in public, because eventually, you might get arrested and have to face all the parents you were a total prick to.

No jump at all really. I know that I have never read an article about a man being arrested for hooking up with a woman in a park and then going off in a car together. Happens to gay men all the time though. It wasn't a prostitution sting, the man wasn't charged with soliciting a prostitute. So, even without the gender of the officer being given, I know that the vast majority of law enforcement officers are men, I've never once read of a police sting operation targeting straight couples who hook up in a public place and then go off in a car to make out. I know that when sodomy laws were still on the books they were enforced against gay men, but not against straight couples.

So, laws are often more stringently enforced against gay men, most cops are men, and straight couples making out in cars is usually considered harmless and they get off with at worst a warning. Not a jump at all really.

Uh... Hugh Grant?

Uh.... prostitution arrest.

D'oh! My bad.

For the sake of aguement I'll coin the "Cowardly Bastard Principal Principle", which states that the degree of verbal abuse some principals gave students who'd been sent to see them (including "don't tell anyone what happened here or you're in more trouble" was inversly proportional to the likelyhood that they'd be overheard by an adult who might rat them out.

I think. Maybe I better quit while I'm behind.

So uh, propositioning an officer isn't prostitution? What do you think he wanted to do in that secluded location, have some ice cream?

No, propositioning an officer is not prostitution. It is solicitation, which is a crime in many parts of the US. Solicitation isn't about money, it's simply asking some one if he or she wants to engage in sexual conduct. Technically this law is broken in singles bars every night of the week. But, as I have been saying, it is usually only used against gay men. Since the Supreme Court struck down the state sodomy laws, law enforcement in places like Florida have switched to other tactics to harass gay men. They don't charge them with solicitation (which has been struck down in many places) but find other nuisance charges like "exposure."

There was no prostitution charge in this case. It seems to be a simple cruise through the park to find a sex partner. When the man found one (the officer), he asked him if he wanted to go to a more secluded location. When they got there, he "exposed" himself. In the car. Only to the deputy. So, it's not like some sort of sick flasher who's going around "exposing" himself to little children. It is a guy who was engaged in what he believed to be consensual sexual conduct with another adult. His mistake was to do it in the car. My original point was that this sort of thing happens every Saturday night all across this country and we don't see thousands of straight couples getting arrested for the same crime.

I haaad to comment on this. When I was a teeny little girl a dozen or so years ago, we were warned about getting too close to strangers and in the video they showed us EVERY MONTH there was a guy, and a little baby Jane type girl. He was in a car and asked her for directions. So she wanders over and looks in the window and BAM genitals. You never know what someone's doing in a car, Lo, you never know!