“A man wearing a woman’s wig and a string bikini was charged with taking a drunken afternoon romp through a park, officials said. Steven S. Cole, a 46-year-old volunteer firefighter, told an officer he was on his way to a Dayton bar to perform as a woman in a contest offering a $10,000 prize, the arrest report said. He pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of drunken driving, public indecency and disorderly conduct. Cole was arrested Tuesday after police received a report that an intoxicated man was walking and driving around Heritage Oak Park in Mason. Police said Cole was wearing a blond wig, pink flip-flops and a red-black-and-white striped bikini with the top filled out by tan water balloons. His blood-alcohol test registered 0.174, more than twice Ohio’s legal driving limit of 0.08, the arrest report said.” — Yahoo (US)

(Thanks to Angela St. Lawrence for the link.)

Don’t be cheated by that headshot appearing on so many other sites. Here is a glorious full-length photo of Mr. Cole in blonde wig, striped bikini, and flip-flops. Why, you can even see his bottle of Bud on the desk. And here he is again wearing his Sunday suit in court. That’s him to the right and his wife in the middle.

To a New Yorker, it is difficult to fathom how a story like this even makes the news. Not a day goes by here that you don’t walk down the street and observe far weirder displays of human perversion, eccentricity, and stupidity — little of which is punished or even punishable by law. Mr. Cole’s lawyer told one newspaper: “What’s strange … is that he was dressed in the way that he was dressed, which was a little bit strange for Heritage Park in Mason, Ohio.” That’s exactly it, counselor. It’s a tempest in a teapot.

Mr. Cole’s real transgression here is not that he cross-dressed but that he drove a vehicle while intoxicated. For that offense this otherwise respectable father of three is now paying by having his peccadilloes broadcast across the land. Juicy details to emerge include the fact that he was going to a gay bar and that his wife had no idea he harbored a penchant for women’s attire. Really this is private drama being played out in public — it makes you feel sorry for the guy, and it also makes you wonder if this would be an extremely effective deterrent for other drunk drivers. Parade their most personal proclivities across the mediascape and most drivers would give up their bottles if not their cars too.

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