A City Councilman in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is on trial this week after ordering up a "sensual massage" via Craigslist. It turned out the masseuse was a police informant and the cops raided the hotel room before the happy ending.
But check out the excuses Darren Bates offered on the stand yesterday: they're only making his situation more comical...
"If I’m getting a massage I’d rather it be a pretty woman rather than a man or a bigger woman," he said.
Bates described a "sensual massage" as one in which a woman would provide very light touching on his body, "mostly on the stomach, they sit on your back. Very light touches, with fingernails . . . it provides a tingling sensation."
The women who have performed "sensual massage" on him before wore shorts and tank tops or lingerie, he said.
Instead of a "sensual massage," Bates said he instead got public humiliation for something he said would draw more attention than any murder story in Omaha in the last 20 years.
What Bates doesn't understand, and what you should this weekend before heading over to craigslist.org in your respective areas, is that the police in this country are freaking out about Craig and his lists. The murder in Boston has them paying closer attention to the "casual encounters" and "erotic services" sections of each city's page. Be careful-- you could end up like this dumbass:
"You could just as easily go in and look for a hot young girl to rub you down?" Sedlak said.
"It’s next to impossible with my schedule. It’s easier to get on my phone," he said.
Bates testified that he went directly to erotic section of Craigslist when seeking a "masseuse."
Sedlak asked, "Erotic means of sexual nature right?"
"It means sexy," Bates said.
Bates testified that he didn’t tell the truth when he gave an interview to World-Herald columnist Michael Kelly. Bates said he told Kelly that he had never before sought a massage.
"You weren’t truthful with press back then?" asked prosecutor Shelly Sedlak.
"Correct," replied Bates.
His attorney, James Martin Davis, later asked Bates why he didn’t admit during the newspaper interview that he had received massages before.
"One, my wife was there," Bates said. "Two, the press completely obliterated everything we’d said. They’d print that and completely go crazy with it."
Via Omaha.com.
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