Fly the friendly skies...just don't go in the bathrooms!

The headline reads as follows: . That certainly got my attention. From Breitbart/AP:

At the world's busiest airport, plainclothes officers patrolling public restrooms in search of luggage thieves have instead uncovered a rash of other, more sordid crimes.
The new restroom dragnet has led to the arrests of more than 30 people in three months for indecent exposure and public sex acts at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Airport restrooms apparently have become such popular meeting places for men looking for sexual trysts with other men that they have been suggested several times as meeting places in personal ads on the Web site Craigslist.

"Hey ... I'm stuck at the airport from 5 p.m. and I'm looking for a good time ...," one ad reads. In another, the person posting says he is stuck at the airport for three hours in the evening and is looking for "discreet, quick action."

The new patrols were started to stop theft, not catch people in sex acts, police officials say.

Officers started monitoring the restrooms after figuring out that thieves were pulling bags off baggage-claim carousels and taking them into toilet stalls to comb through them.

"We're trying to provide a safe environment for everyone at the airport," said Officer Joseph Villafane, a police spokesman. "We're not out to get all that—it's just we encounter it."

Among those arrested is Ed Wall, the board chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. An officer said he saw Wall having oral sex with another man. Wall, who has temporarily stepped down from his post, has maintained his innocence. A court date has not been set.

Of course he's innocent! The officer didn't understand that Wall was simply having skin flute...I mean, flute...lessons in the bathroom! I mean, just where is a man supposed to go for flute lessons, huh? Continuing:

Still, some say the airport police should have better things to do than stake out restrooms.

"Police have far better things to do with their time than to arrest people for this," said Kenneth Sherrill, professor at Hunter College of The City University of New York. "Being 'sex police' in bathrooms strikes me as a perversion of rational law enforcement activities."

Leave it to a pointy-headed pseudo-intellectual to try and rationalize the crime and portray the police as "perverted." Sex in a bathroom stall at an airport? Not perverted. Police enforcing the law? Perverted. Got it, Professor. Thanks for the clarification.