The Senator at Minneapolis Airport in the year 2007

I hope this incident from the year 2007 rings a bell. A young Police Officer was inside the stall of a Men's restroom (toilet) at Minneapolis International Airport, USA. His next stall neighbor extended his legs and started tapping the Officer's shoes. This is a classic style of gay solicitation in public restrooms in America. To the Police Officer's surprise his next Stall solicitor and would be paramour turned out to be Larry Craig, a US Senator from the state of Idaho. He (incidentally once sought impeachment proceeding against Clinton on moral grounds) was waiting to catch a connecting flight, but ended up in making the wrong connection. The Senator probably thought of getting little kinky, done and fly out, anticipating this rendezvous to end up like "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas", all staying gay and happy. Unlucky for him, he couldn't escape this escapade. This Police officer who the Senator expected to be his "One Day Stand" partner, charged him for lewd conduct. The Senator took a guilty plea. I was imagining a similar situation in an Airport back home, where a Police Inspector catches an MP in such an unsavoury situation. We can visualize several outcomes of such a scenario. First and the most likely one - the Inspector falling on his knee, touching the venerable MP's feet, profusely begging for forgiveness, "Sir..Sir.. YE BESHARAM KO GALTI HO GAYA (this shameless guy has committed a mistake)..MAAF KAR DIJIYE(please forgive me). The MP and his reputation stays lily white as his starched DHOTI (white loin cloth worn around waist by many politicians). Second and Quite possible scenario - if the inspector is smart enough, he can cough up some good amount of money from the hapless MP. The third and least unlikely scenario - the Inspector the MP into Custody ( I do believe many efficient and honest officers are still there, though they are a rarespecies in the verge of extinction). In that case the MP soon gets a bail and the poor inspector gets severely reprimanded by his supervisors for having the audacity of suspecting the integrity of an Honorable MP. Long story short, Larry Craig never ran for any political office again. Like many American politicians caught in scandals, his political carrier ended soon. In India no politician even admits a mistake even after conviction. As far as their political carrier goes, some further it. The fact that a bunch of legislatures, mostly from UP and Bihar get elected over and over again speaks for it.