Idaho Sen. Paul Airport restroom have made foot-tapping, hand-waving and wide stances the subject of news headlines and late-night talk show routines. But is the price paid by those who are caught too severe?
Any association to real people with these names is purely coincidental. He was president of a popular Central Massachusetts youth sports league and head groundskeeper at an area school district. With one rash decision, he lost it all. Rail Trail. The trail, surrounded by serene woods at the mouth of the Wachusett Reservoir, is a popular place to walk or ride a bike. River Road is located nearby and is a place where fishermen or walkers sometimes park.
He was looking to meet another man. The man he met, however, was an undercover police officer. And what he got, was his life turned upside down.
Stanley was one of several men busted at the West Boylston location last year for soliciting sex. It was nearly a year before U. Paul Airport restroom made foot-tapping, hand-waving and wide stances the subject of news headlines and late-night talk show routines.
And local police departments have been struggling with how to deal with hot spots for such activity for years. Why some men seek out such encounters, where they go to do it and the price they pay when caught are questions that are often uncomfortable to ask and difficult to answer. But what happens when those very private acts occur in a public place? In an unmarked police car, he parked along the side of the road and waited.
