Sounds as though the Israeli ambassador to El Salvador was having a pretty good time there, but alas, no longer.
Oy gevalt.
Dang! I didn’t know you could have that much fun in El Salvadore!
plans next vacation
He was “wearing” several sex toys?
Good use of euphamism by the AP, there.
But was he in a bathtub full of ice, sans kidneys?
I mean, bound, gagged and sex-toy clad is nice, but the story is missing that je ne sais quoi that marks a truly legendary tale.
This is why I’ll never get to be an ambassador.
So much for “What happens in El Salvador stays in El Salvador.”
What, you mean you don’t a ball gag and a set of cuffs?
By the way, outstanding work by the CBS news graphics department. A pair of cuffed hands, a shotglass, and the flags of the two countries. It says “embarrassing diplomatic incident,” and the story delivers.
It’s so much more genteel than “he was impaled by a butt plug.”
He was in his yard. That’s the capper that puts it over the top for me.
I was going to say that.
As the resident Salvadoran-American I have to report the media in El Salvador is complaining that the Police did not confirm the incident, they confirmed the news thanks to the Speaker of the Israel delegation, making one wonder if this was going to be hidden anyhow, but I think the Ambassador or the delegation confessed because they found out someone else was going to rat on him.
http://www.laprensagrafica.com/lodeldia/20070312/8695.asp
And I should pit the ambassador and the reactionary press in El Salvador for this: if you check the link you will see that for this bit of news the Salvadoran newspaper used a photo of the now disgraced ambassador in front of an exposition on the holocaust! A pox on the ambassador for helping discredit more important messages and the press there for using what IMHO is a very inappropriate image in context.
Coming soon – late-night TV ads for “Ambassadors Gone Wild!”
Sounds like the guy was living up to his first name [Tsuriel… evocative of both tsuris and surreal]. And sometimes a man’s diplomatic residence is his dungeon… although given his penchant for the risque, he’d fit in better with the locals if was in France, Sweden or The Netherlands.
It’s also strange that it was the Israeli ambassador who was undone [unhinged?] in a country named for Jesus Christ.
I bet he hasn’t heard the last of this.
Israel Recalls Ambassador Found Bound, Drunk and Nude
Yes, I think they’ll be recalling him for quite some time.
It’s a bust-up shot of him in front of an off-white wall, with what might be an Israeli flag just on the edge by his right shoulder. Did the photo change?
Just to play devil’s advocate, under what circumstances would one normally have a ready photo of one’s local Israeli ambassador? When I worked for a paper, if there was time we’d try to contact the person’s organization for an official press kit photo, but if a news story breaks and it has to run now (or if the organization refuses), you have to go with whatever is in your photo files. If the only photo available is from when he was giving a speech at the league of left-handed electrician furries, then that’s what runs. They’re probably more relaxed about it nowadays since, unlike newspapers, on-line stories can be easily updated as new data comes in.
Yes, it did change, I bet someone complained loud enough back there… And now I wish I had saved the page… The picture that was there early had the ambassador in front of a “holocaust memorial exhibition” with a picture of emaciated Jews walking in a concentration camp and the ambassador to the right of the picture covering just 1/4 of the frame of the image that was used first. Very rude in context IMHO. As they just showed, they had another picture of him.
Still, there is something called cropping.
The photo in GIGObuster’s link hasn’t changed. The BBC has the photo with the hilarious hand gesture.
The government is presumably going to have to debrief the former Ambassador to check whether there’s an intelligence angle. These things can sound so sordid out of context.
I though he was debriefed when they found him. 
If you squint your eyes just right, it looks like he’s borrowed the Lamb Chop puppet from Shari Lewis.
I just looked at the Salvadoran link now and got the picture where he’s in front of a Holocaust exhibit poster.
Everything will be all right in the end.
I’m glad I’m not the only person who found this hilarious. The Onion had one of those picture-with-caption things making fun of those kind of graphics. I think it was “CNN graphics designer wondering why she has to combine panda, fighter planes, and biohazard symbol.”