A balding, middle-aged man sits in an Oldsmobile, parked trunk first in a spot in a Penn Valley Park lot. It's lunchtime midweek, and he's eating tacos from a fast-food bag. Trash is piled high in the backseat. The Oldsmobile and the surrounding asphalt, if viewed from the top floor of the glaringly white One Park Place condominium tower at the southernmost edge of the park, would appear as a mere fingernail scrape against a Crayola-green landscape. The grassy humps of the 130-acre park ease up to the grounds of the World War I Museum, where the Liberty Memorial's grooved monolith joins the downtown skyline.
A man approaches the driver's-side window of the Olds.
"How are your tacos?" the man outside asks.
"Fine," the driver answers.
"Are you looking for something?"
"Of course," the driver says.
"What do you like?"
By way of response, the seated man shifts his ample gut to unfasten his khakis and fish out the head of his penis.
The standing man says he has a house nearby. The Olds follows the other man's vehicle out of the park, past the fountain that honors fallen firefighters and into 31st Street traffic. They have driven less than half a mile when a Kansas City Police Department patrol car flashes its red-and-blue lights and signals the Oldsmobile to pull over. The leading vehicle keeps on driving.
Soon, the man is handcuffed and slumped next to his car, his weathered face cast downward. This is what happens when you expose yourself to an undercover detective.
The KCPD's vice squad spends a couple of days a month conducting covert stings to ferret out men seeking sex in public parks. When things go right, the job is predictable. Hiding in plain sight, the detectives observe men committing brazen — and, some argue, victimless — crimes. Filling out the citation paperwork roadside, the detectives then endure the often laughable excuses.
It's not tackling robbers or finding lost children, but members of the squad believe that making the parks safe for the average taxpayer is a noble civic duty.
Also, it can make for a fun afternoon.
The KCPD's vice squad — four detectives under Sgt. Brad Dumit — is a tightknit, busy unit. Its members watch for code and ordinance violations at body-piercing and tattoo parlors, track illegal gambling, crack down on unlicensed party houses, monitor strip clubs, ensure that businesses aren't selling liquor or tobacco to minors, investigate escort services and massage parlors, and arrest street prostitutes and pimps and johns.
Lately, Dumit's crew has been working the parks hard in response to increasing complaints, even during the winter months, about park sex. The longer that such action is left unchecked, the bolder the actors become, Dumit says. With the coast clear, what once was consummated in the relative privacy of a public restroom moves into the open. After that, dog walkers and Frisbee throwers visit a park less frequently.
Skateboarders are a little hardier, but some who frequent Penn Valley Park's professionally designed skating area aren't oblivious to the steady stream of traffic snaking through the parking lot.
Tom Wyker, a veteran skater at 32, has been solicited by men in Penn Valley Park. "We've heard that two dudes got caught doin' it in the bowl" — the kidney-shaped basin that skaters use like a drained SoCal pool to execute air stunts — "and there are condoms splattered all over. It sucks."
Sean Croker, a 25-year-old skateboarder, considers the area's non-skateboarding activity an annoyance. "We'll get done skating and be bullshitting with our friends, and those dudes will be patrolling the parking lot like sharks, and we're the bait," says Croker, who once saw two men engaged in oral sex while touring the park with a friend.
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You must have been one of the so called "deviants" since you know so much about what goes on. Stay home and mind your own business and let the boys have their fun in the sum.
Sounds like you have serious issues and not much brain to work with. If you don't like what goes on, stay away and go somewhere else. What makes you think you are so special that those you don't like should leave? Actually, my bet is that you are there for more than skating but your lack of success in finding man action has left you feeling bitter and alone. Good luck with finding your identity.
Interesting that all the cops want to be on Sergeant Dumit's team. Is that because they get to sit in parked cars, look at men's genitals, eat junk food, and call women "crack whores"? I mean, doesn't sound like any of these cops who are supposed to be "protecting and serving" are doing much of either. Seriously, how tough can their job be? When I see real cops working, they are on the streets keeping people safe. They aren't snarfing down sody pops and Junior Mints and playing grab ass in the park all day.
Shoot 'em up, cowboys.
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and dicks for free
Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb.
Interesting that all the cops want to be on Sergeant Dumit's team. Is that because they get to sit in parked cars, look at men's genitals, eat junk food, and call women "crack whores"? I mean, doesn't sound like any of these cops who are supposed to be "protecting and serving" are doing much of either. Seriously, how tough can their job be? When I see real cops working, they are on the streets keeping people safe. They aren't snarfing down sody pops and Junior Mints and playing grab ass in the park all day. Shoot 'em up, cowboys. That ain't workin' that's the way you do it Money for nothin' and dicks for free Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb Maybe get a blister on your little finger Maybe get a blister on your thumb.
so there was a skateboarding event at penn about three weeks ago and there was free hotdogs and redbulls. One of the "working dudes" kept coming by every couple of hours to get free food and redbulls. After like the 10th time the redbull guys figured out what he was doing and kicked him out and told him not to come back. There was like 800 people there for the event, and still tons of gay dudes trolling all over the place. This shit needs to stop. maybe some extreme measures need to be taken. Anyone have any ideas. Maybe they should all move down to Power and light with all the other doushe bags in KC, i think most of the frat boy ass holes down there are gay too, so it should work out for everyone....
so there was a skateboarding event at penn about three weeks ago and there was free hotdogs and redbulls. One of the "working dudes" kept coming by every couple of hours to get free food and redbulls. After like the 10th time the redbull guys figured out what he was doing and kicked him out and told him not to come back. There was like 800 people there for the event, and still tons of gay dudes trolling all over the place. This shit needs to stop. maybe some extreme measures need to be taken. Anyone have any ideas. Maybe they should all move down to Power and light with all the other doushe bags in KC, i think most of the frat boy ass holes down there are gay too, so it should work out for everyone....
Talking about tax dollar well spent... Come on, paying those 4 cops each like $100 an hour ($400 an hour) just to cache those victimless "crimes"? give me a break!
Talking about tax dollar well spent... Come on, paying those 4 cops each like $100 an hour ($400 an hour) just to cache those victimless "crimes"? give me a break!
My favorite comment from the cops: "The more we do this stuff, the harder it gets," he says.
My favorite comment from the cops: "The more we do this stuff, the harder it gets," he says.
Please can you provide more location details as my wife and I haven't had relations in 37 years, 18 weeks, 2 days and 13 hours.
Near where I live the same thing goes on. However in the UK it's a lot colder an the men are usually clad head to foot in Lycra so as not to catch their death of cold.
This almost never happens to me, my dear husband however keeps getting propositioned in the bushes, I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that we haven't had sexual relations in 37 years.
Please can you provide more location details as my wife and I haven't had relations in 37 years, 18 weeks, 2 days and 13 hours.
Near where I live the same thing goes on. However in the UK it's a lot colder an the men are usually clad head to foot in Lycra so as not to catch their death of cold.
This almost never happens to me, my dear husband however keeps getting propositioned in the bushes, I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that we haven't had sexual relations in 37 years.
"but he offers to buy her a McDonald's hamburger if she lets him perform oral sex "
Do fries come with that? Srsly, a Happy ending meal?
"but he offers to buy her a McDonald's hamburger if she lets him perform oral sex " Do fries come with that? Srsly, a Happy ending meal?
Ch 5 did that a few years ago, and had to pay a guy a tidy some of money.....Had the same problem in Antioch Park with the gays. It came to a head (n.p.i.)when little kids where within eye shot (n.p.i.)of the deviates.
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