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Cops Bust Cruisers in Minn. Suburbs

Undercover police in a Minneapolis suburb are cracking down on gay sexual activity in public parks and bathrooms.


Undercover police in a Minneapolis suburb are cracking down on gay sexual activity in public parks and bathrooms.

The Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Area, near the Minnesota River, has become a hot bed of activity, according to WCCO News. Local cops staged an undercover sting operation as recently as Tuesday.

A local parent notified the Burnsville, Minn., police department after a visit to the park brought him and his sons face-to-face with some men engaging in sexual acts. He said he then had to explain what was happening to his children.

An unidentified police officer told WCCO that the stings decrease the amount of public cruising. He added that men seeking sex don't return to areas that have been under investigation.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: ryan matthews
    Date posted: 6/30/2009 8:00:00 AM
    Hometown: Toronto,Ontario

    Comment:

    the poor kid, the pook kid. omg frak off already. its the cities and churches that cause the closures of adult places where we can go to have our fun and leave your fraking breeders alone. but then you cant get enough, always tramping on bathhouses, adult video stores, raiding gay bars. Hello Frakking assholes, its the 21st century. how would you fraking breaders like it if we started raiding your houses when your being intimate with your partners in the motels, your cars, your houses, etc and we say keep the noise down because its immoral. try explaining that to your kids. sex is trans-decent. its everywhere. dont knock it since your walking with your kids and your embarrassed to explain sex to your kids and trying to wait for the correct age. when does puberty start in kids now 7 or 8. wake the frak up parents.

  • Name: Homo Erectus
    Date posted: 6/29/2009 7:23:00 AM
    Hometown: Saint Paul

    Comment:

    Cities have created the problem by shutting down bath houses, saunas, and adult entertainment theaters etc. Gay and Bi men and women obviously cruise wooded areas and parks because municipalities have shut down places that used to be good for cruising and out of the public eye. Churches have put pressure on city officials to close down adult entertainment places so it's a battle between the fundies and gays like it has been for years. Just like nude beaches around the world it's the same problem. I get so tired of the so called moral majority whining while nine times out of ten they would probably try it too if they could get away with it. Pillars of the community having affairs yet that's ok. Humans are sexual creatures and will find it wherever they can so deal with it! It's the selfe righteous prudes of the world that make it miserable for others!

  • Name: rarvccrx
    Date posted: 6/28/2009 9:27:00 PM
    Hometown: dczZWZ

    Comment:

    Now THEREs an intelligent fella!

  • Name: JC
    Date posted: 6/28/2009 2:36:00 PM
    Hometown: Minneapolis

    Comment:

    WHO CARES who it is doing it. The point is that public sex is ILLEGAL regardless of the sex of the participants. I couldnt give a rats patootie...but I dont want to go for a walk and see anyone having sex. Get a motel room, have sex in the garage, do it when your wife/partner isnt around. Just dont do it in public. Just think about that poor kid. Completely unnecessary.

  • Name: RKH
    Date posted: 6/28/2009 9:31:00 AM
    Hometown: Columbus OH

    Comment:

    Do not feed the troll, people.

  • Name: AMC
    Date posted: 6/28/2009 12:35:00 AM
    Hometown: Conway

    Comment:

    Um pjr just so you know its true. I have walked in on it before and have seen more female prostitutes then male. Its not lies its the truth. Yes I think having sex in public is wrong but straight men and women DO do it. Your the one who lives in a fantasy world if you dont see theses things. Its not just the gay community so shut up. So why dont you comment on this stuff when you know what your talking about, and realize your only lying to your self. And FYI if you have a problem with gays you might wont to stop coming to this site, just saying.

  • Name: Sye
    Date posted: 6/27/2009 11:05:00 PM
    Hometown: Sydney, Australia

    Comment:

    What was it that Madonna said? "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." Each to their own, people - just be discrete about it so as not to draw attention to it.

  • Name: PJR
    Date posted: 6/27/2009 10:45:00 PM
    Hometown: Michigan

    Comment:

    TC - That's a bunch of pure malarky that straight men are cruising for heterosexual sex in public parks, and so non chalant about it they'd have sex in front of kids. You gay folk have got to quit with the constant total bullshit lies and fabrications whereby everything wrong with homosexuality gets some buffaloed equivalency comparison to make it seem okay in your oddball justification logic! Get with the real world! There's plenty of vice activity for heterosexual sex that cops bust up, and it consists of prostition being picked up from guys in cars taking them to some hotel room, not some public restroom in a public park. I really find it hard to believe you've seen some heterosexuals in the bushes by the gay public park cruise spot. That's laughable! I can just hear that heterosexual line "Come on honey, I know the perfect spot for some romancing, down by the public park restroom where the gay fellas are having sex". HA! What a joke!!

  • Name: TC
    Date posted: 6/27/2009 6:54:00 PM
    Hometown: Lake Orion, Michigan

    Comment:

    pjr It's not only gay men that are at these parks & or bathrooms. Approx 75% of the men that I've seen cruising have wedding bands on their fingers. I've actually talked to a gentlemen that has been married (to a woman) for 30 years, x marine special forces. That cruises for sex with men. I've seen "straight" men & women having sex in the bushes. But nothing is ever done to them. Double standereds once again. I do not condone either one. Children should not be exposed to either group (Straight or Gay). If the police are going to arrest one group, they also need to arrest the other for actions done in front of children. Now holding hands or just kissing someone you love, should not be grounds for arrest. IT'S NOT A SEXUAL ACT. If it is, then you probably should be arrested also. Have you ever done it in front of a child?

  • Name: AMC
    Date posted: 6/27/2009 12:36:00 AM
    Hometown: Conway

    Comment:

    So buddy why don't you step down off your high Fing horse and look at it in another persons point of view. You need to get over yourself real fast because obviously you don't no what love is or you wouldn't even bring something like that up. Oh and FYFI straight men have sex with women in bathrooms to I know I have walked in on it before so who is the pot calling the kettle black, there are more straight hookers then there are gay ones. So next time you want to rant go do it on your blog cause no one here wants to or cares to know your uneducated opinion.

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