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Posted on Sep 17, 2007
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The Minnesota airport men’s room where Sen. Larry Craig tapped toes with an undercover policeman has become a tourist attraction, complete with gawking visitors—including women—posing for photos in front of the infamous stall.

Can a souvenir stand be far behind?


BBC:

“We had to just stop and check out the bathroom,” said Sally Westby of Minneapolis, on her way to Guatemala with her husband Jon.

“In fact, it’s Jon’s second time—he was here last week already.”

Royal Zino, who works at the shoeshine shop next to the public lavatory, said “it’s been crazy”.

“People have been going inside, taking pictures of the stall, taking pictures outside the bathroom door.”

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By cyrena, September 21, 2007 at 12:24 am Link to this comment

#101274 by John

I love it John! smile

Sounds like a kinky jury to me. Meantime, you can be my lawyer anytime, as long as you accept pro bono cases. wink

I can help with the part where we baffle ‘em with bullshit.

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By John Borowski, September 19, 2007 at 5:47 am Link to this comment
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Cyrena, the jury demanded that my client produce evidence that he is uncircumcised. I advised my client to plead the Fifth Amendment.

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By cyrena, September 18, 2007 at 11:32 pm Link to this comment

#101109 by John Borowski

Gee John,

Thanks for sharing. (all the details) I’ve gotta admit, you deserved to win that case with the circumcision defense, regardless of whether your client was circumcised or not. If I’d been on the jury, I would have bought it. It’s a two-pronged defense, you could dazzle with brilliance, or baffle with bullshit. Either way, you win.

#101076 by Skruff

...“Shit, do you think this will rekindle a interest in River Phoenix movies?”...

I dunno Skruff. Do you like have a supply of the River Phoenix movies that you’d like to market or otherwise re-cycle?

I just acquired a DVD burner, so maybe we could re-do them? Just a thought.

RAE,(#101050) good observation on the grab bars. (I had to look at the photo again, which made me wonder why it was collected from a Univ. of Texas website, if the toilet is in MSP, but never mind, probably a student tourist or faculty member from UT)

Anyway, the only thing I can suggest on the wide coverage of the grab bars, is that some people are much larger than others, and so these will accommodate a few small people simultaneously, or one large person alone.

It also appears to be large enough to accommodate a wheelchair or other assistive equipment, so that too, could be the reason for the extra grab bar space.

Or, there’s room for the toilet police to handle several suspects at one time, by just handcuffing them all to those grab bars. That way, they only need one cop to cover a whole terminal of toilets.

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By John Borowski, September 18, 2007 at 11:50 am Link to this comment
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In defense of the toilet folks, I will perpetrate reiteration of my comment in “The Bigger Bathroom Picture” What many people overlook is just because the toilet room folks are on the toilet bowl with their pants down and their legs wide open doesn’t mean they are soliciting.
There are two types of men. (The circumcised and the uncircumcised) The circumcised folks shoot a stream like an arrow straight into the toilet bowl. The folks that are uncircumcised will at times experience a phenomenon where the foreskin gets in the way of the stream. This will produce a “shot gun” like stream) When a toilet room folk has the latter condition he will have his pants down and legs wide open. This will successfully prevent his tie or his pants from being sprinkled. I won a court case based on this reasoning.
This is why many women put a verse in their bathroom that goes like this.
If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetee and wipe the seatee. A woman pees backwards,how would you like to sit on a wet seat?

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By 1drees, September 18, 2007 at 10:53 am Link to this comment
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when this was fresh in the news i was laffing like hell, i mean a man so desperate to get laid that he just wouldnt take no for an answere and then secondly he just needed it then & there in the public toilet, typically masculine (if you ask any female) but then in this case the cop is showing his card and the “senator” flashes his “official senator” card.
BUT then this is so inline with all other reports that indicate that the Priests and then even Scouts are doing this kind of things all the time specially with the kids that cant even react properly to an indecent proposal.
kind of indicates that a dick is a bigger problem that its actual size ever.

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By Skruff, September 18, 2007 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
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Shit, do you think this will rekindle a interest in River Phoenix movies?

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By RAE, September 18, 2007 at 8:13 am Link to this comment

I’d sure like to know why the “grab” bars in the photo look big enough to accommodate 3 or 4 people simultaneously!

If you were bending over with your pants down and both hands on the bar behind the loo, would that make you eligible to be a “wide” receiver?

Don’t like the stainless steel walls though - damn hard to write on, and nearly impossible to drill a big hole through. What else is a guy supposed to do than go under?

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By minamoto no taira, September 18, 2007 at 8:05 am Link to this comment

This won’t make me very happy if it brings back pay toilets.

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By cyrena, September 17, 2007 at 8:55 pm Link to this comment

Humm…an interesting observation about this airport, and the people who use it. (I love the part about the women who’s husband had already “visited” the site last week.)

Anyway, it’s curious that it didn’t become a tourist attraction after the major drama that happened last year, when they had the FBI and the CIA come after those Imam from the Muslim Brotherhood Scholars. Remember how they handcuffed all of them, (there were 6, including a blind one) because that passenger had spotted one of them praying?

Now, why wouldn’t THAT become a tourist attraction? Especially in the Era of Terra, and the Boy’s crusade and all.

All this is - is a picture of a damn toilet. What does this say about our society-at-large. Worshipping toilets? The only time I ever did that was when I was stupid enough to drink too much bad wine.

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By thomas billis, September 17, 2007 at 6:37 pm Link to this comment
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They should transfer the Larry Craig stall to the Smithsonian with all the crap they have there it would be a natural.
I hear on dancing with the stars they will be using the Larry Craig two step as one of the dance numbers.

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By QuyTran, September 17, 2007 at 6:09 pm Link to this comment

The Minnesota air port’s men room should be named as Larry Craig !

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