While I was frolicking at the Filth2Go Beach House in Provincetown, a gay man was being arrested at the beach in Queens, New York.  Apparently Jacob Riis Park is a popular place for gays who can’t make it to Ptown or Fire Island.  According to reports, Krys Fox was wearing only a towel while taking photos of a friend (allegedly, his bathing suit was drying in the sun).  At one point, his towel accidentally dropped.  Fox says, “I just didn’t wrap my towel around my waist tight enough and it suddenly slipped down and I literally got sent to jail for it.”

However Sgt. David Somma of the US Park Police says that Fox was “standing there fully nude taking pictures of his friend – officers observed him for a minute or two standing there.  They walked over to him, asked him to put his towel back around his waist or get dressed, and he refused.  They asked him again.  They asked if he would walk with officers to another group of gentlemen getting tickets for urinating in public.  He refused.”  The police were going to issue him a ticket, but Fox failed to produce any ID (he lost it at NYC Pride).  Somma continues, “He refused to sit down on the beach and put a towel on himself.  The most he would have received was a summons for public nudity, but he refused to cooperate, became combative, making a nuisance of himself, drawing attention to himself.  So he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.”  But Fox wasn’t just arrested – he was physically carried off the beach by a phalanx of no fewer than 11 policemen.  Once they got to the edge of the beach, they laid him on the sand, cuffed him, hoisted him up, and put him in the back of the squad car while Fox cried, “Help me!”  Although I’m sure laws were broken, did it really require 11 cops?  It seems, dare I say, like overkill.  Judge for yourself on BillyMasters.com.