Oddly enough, just before I read this Thurston Howell IV came into my office and asked if I wanted some of his banana. Disgusted and amused, I laughed, “I don’t eat bananas. They give me headaches.” I think that might have been fodder for a sexual harassment lawsuit, but Thurston usually means no harm.
Police Charge Man for Flashing With Banana
GREENWICH, Conn. – A former Stamford police officer has been charged with lewd conduct involving a toy banana. Arthur Bertana, 62, who had been on probation for lewd conduct more than four years ago, was arrested Saturday after police said he placed a toy banana in his pants and flashed people.
Bertana was charged with breach of peace and interfering with a police officer.
“Over a span of time, there were several reports of a subject wearing extremely tight pants with an obvious bulge stuffed down his pants,” Sgt. Roger Petrone Jr. said Wednesday.
Bertana would allegedly greet passersby on the busy street while trying to draw attention, Petrone said. At times, he placed a bag in front of his pants, then moved it and show the bulge, he said.
“It was a yellow, plush, child’s toy banana,” Petrone said. “It had a smiley face on it.”
Bertana was released on a $5,000 bond for a March 21 appearance in Stamford Superior Court in Stamford.
>Back in my undergraduate days in Knoxville, I saw a guy out on the Strip, which is the main drag through campus with all the bars and music clubs, sitting outside the entrance to a bar asking all the females who were entering “Would you like to see some heavy metal?” He was wearing very tight, very short shorts with an unbelievable bulge. Depending on the answer, and some said “Sure!”, the guy would unzip and whip out a huge lead weight he had tied to some twine wrapped around his waist. My parents spent thousands on my education and this is the kind of shit I remember.