Next they'll be doing it at the grocery checkout counter...

It's stories like this that make me feel I dropped through a worm hole into the Bizarro Universe:

AP - Wednesday, January 16

ST. PAUL, Minn. - In an effort to help Sen. Larry Craig, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing that people who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy.

Craig, of Idaho, is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct stemming from a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport.

The ACLU filed a brief Tuesday supporting Craig. It cited a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling 38 years ago that found that people who have sex in closed stalls in public restrooms "have a reasonable expectation of privacy."

That means the state cannot prove Craig was inviting an undercover officer to have sex in public, the ACLU wrote.

The Republican senator was arrested June 11 by an undercover officer who said Craig tapped his feet and swiped his hand under a stall divider in a way that signaled he wanted sex. Craig has denied that, saying his actions were misconstrued.

The ACLU argued that even if Craig was inviting the officer to have sex, his actions wouldn't be illegal.

"The government cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Senator Craig was inviting the undercover officer to engage in anything other than sexual intimacy that would not have called attention to itself in a closed stall in the public restroom," the ACLU wrote in its brief.

The ACLU also noted that Craig was originally charged with interference with privacy, which it said was an admission by the state that people in the bathroom stall expect privacy.

Craig at one point said he would resign but now says he will finish his term, which ends in January 2009.

Okay, so now as our children go into the restrooms they'll be serenaded by the sounds of two pigs who can't/won't afford a room somewhere. Lovely. And let's call a spade a spade, it will be two nominal males. Most females, even the randiest, won't go for slapping bellies in a stall. Not saying there aren't some, just the level of minimal discernment is higher in women than men.

Firecrackers are legal here in Texas. Wonder what lighting one and rolling it under the stall door does to some fudgepacking couple's "expectation of privacy"? For those who live in areas they can't be sold, I'll merely observe there are several internet sites that give instructions for making homemade firecrackers. Try any half decent search engine and VOILA! you'll find 'em.

I'm NOT advocating anything illegal, just making an observation on the uses of modern technology.