What’s the line on how long until the alcohol rehab announcement?
Perhaps if you offer them a $20?
Well, I guess Hajario’s post blows my theory. The cop wasn’t looking to bust johns, he was just minding his own business when Allen walked into his stall.
Is this what life is like for Stocky Black Guys? They can’t walk into a public bathroom stall for ten seconds without getting propositioned by closeted gays begging to give blow jobs :eek: ?
Actually he wanted to take him to a less public area of the park to suck his dick. Because when you’re worried that a large black man is going to assault you, you want to make sure to lead him to a place where no one can see you.
The Daily Show had a field day with this, including John Oliver’s list of better excuses Allen could have come up with: “I’m bullemic, and I hate sticking my finger down my throat.”
Great coverage on the Daily Show. Jon clearly thinks this story is HILARIOUS.
The case as I see it:
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Allen goes into park restroom to solicit sex. Not a crime, as long as he doesn’t have sex there, and Allen specifically states that the restroom is too public. Whether the “bridge” mentioned is a footbridge in the park, which would leave him open to public lewdness charges, or a real bridge leading out of the neighborhood, which wouldn’t, is not yet clear.
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Allen approaches a big black guy for sex. Big black guy demands $20. Allen’s story, at this point, is that he was scared. Scared enough to pay $20 for was, until then, a hookup? Were I his lawyer, that’s what I’d be thinking.
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BBG cop then tries to get Allen to specify what the $20 is for; Allen demurrs. Cop specifies oral sex, Allen says he’ll do him. They walk away, and Allen is arrested.
At no point do I see that Allen would have offered money without prompting, and his story seems to be laying groundwork for entrapment via coercion. Soliciting sex is not the same as soliciting prostitution.
None of this gets Allen clear of public gayness, but maybe he’s still thinking he can game that. And yeah, that probably will hurt him more than being a racist asshole. Sad, but true.
I near fell off the couch on that one. Was this show a record for the number of uses of penis in one program?
The pure of heart will not laugh at this for they will not understand it, but to those informed of sordid practices it may resonate mirthfully:
On Allen’s Florida House homepage there’s only one thing mentioned by Recreational Interests::
Water Sports
To quote Capote, “Sometime there’s God”.
Maybe they haggled. Maybe the Big Scary Negro originally wanted $50 and to buttfuck him, and he talked him down to a blowjob and $20.
Politicians - expert negotiators*.
-Joe
*Proud I didn’t use “crack” negotiators
On the same theme, apparently the president of the Young Republicans is being investigated for “criminal deviate conduct”:
Maybe he should have woken him up and offered him $20 first.
[ETA: Sorry, I see that Squink caught this one before I did and linked to it upthread. I’ll leave it for the quoted text.]
Can we just assume that the “R” after an elected official’s name means “Closeted Gay”?
Well, at the very least, we can assume that the counterpart “D” stands for “discretion.” 
Well, let’s give it a try.
Dick Cheney (R/closeted gay)
—shudder—
No, please let’s not assume that.
Except, if I remember correctly, entrapment needs a lot more than not offering money without prompting. An undercover cop can offer you drugs, and you are still liable for the offense if you say yes, whether you asked for the drugs first or not. It is only if you keep saying know, and they keep following you around, telling you all the cool kids are doing it, and that no one will ever find out etc etc that you might stand a chance of an entrapment defense, and then only if you say no repeatedly. You can be predisposed to something without being willing to do it without prompting, I think… If you go to a known area for a particular activity there will be a presumption that you are predisposed to it.
Then again, I could be totally misremembering entrapment law.
Oh, REALLY?!
Not IME, dammit! Here, sir, are the remnants of my membership card, and I now respectfully request a full and speedy refund of my membership dues. 
So the bridge in question must have been over the Yellow River.
No, but I’ve heard rumors that his daughter Mary is a closeted straight housewife secretly married to a plumber named Ron.
The problem is that he solicted the sex AFTER he was allegedly terrified by the officer’s intimidating Big Blackness.
Your theory of the case does, I admit, raise a question of fact that should go to a jury, so I’ll temper my earlier “no way it will fly” comment to merely a note that I think it’s very unlikely to come back with a not guilty for entrapment. But the defense is viable as a matter of law.