“A South Daytona man was arrested Monday at an Interstate 4 rest stop near Daytona Beach after a trucker called the sheriff’s office saying a man was soliciting him for sex. ‘A pervert tried to get in my truck and do something with me,’ a trucker said in a recorded 911 call. Deputies arrested Jordan Lewis, 59, for trespassing because Lewis had already been warned twice previously for hanging out in the rest area. ‘He’s kind of cruising the truck line,’ a woman told a 911 dispatcher in another recorded call. ‘He’s heading over to another truck right now. This guy comes up to my passenger side door and he’s looking at me like he’s gay or something,’ said the truck driver from the first 911 call. ‘Sir I’m sending someone out there, but I don’t know how someone looks gay,’ said the 911 dispatcher. ‘Like he’s gay like he wanted to get in my truck and do something,’ said the truck driver. ‘He looks like he feminine. He looks like a woman, but he’s a man,’ he said. Lewis said he stopped at the rest area to take a nap and to stretch after driving back from visiting family in Tampa. ‘I’d rather stop there and rest than get in an accident,’ Lewis said of stopping at the rest area he estimates to be 10 miles from his house. ‘I didn’t even see anybody while I was there,’ Lewis said. Deputies searches Lewis and found condoms on him and in his car. Brandon Haught, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said they could only charge him with trespassing because Lewis hadn’t done anything sexual. Haught said they have gotten other calls from the rest area with similar complaints but wouldn’t call it a major problem.” — Orlando Sentinel (US)

Evidently Mr Scared-of-Gay-People Trucker missed the memo that highway rest stops often serve as cruising grounds. His 911 call is available to hear online. It can be inadvertently funny to listen to the trucker and the operator banter back and forth about what a gay person looks like. You’d think they were trying to describe an extraterrestrial.

On consideration, though, the whole thing is alarming. This trucker actually called the police because a guy who “looks like a woman, but he’s a man” made a pass at him? Well, so fucking what? If you’re not interested, say so. Then, provided the interested party isn’t pointing a knife at you, forget about it. Gay or straight, it’s not illegal to make a pass at an adult.

Besides, you know that if a trucker were to wander into a gay bar, nobody would call the police. Shouldn’t the hospitality extend both ways?

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