Craig Arrest Makes MSP Bathroom Tourist Attraction [View All]

Source: WCCO (AP)

Sep 16, 2007 2:47 pm US/Central

Craig Arrest Makes MSP Bathroom Tourist Attraction
(AP) Minneapolis

"Where's the bathroom?"

That's the question camera-toting tourists in Minneapolis are asking as they visit the men's room where U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, was arrested in a sex sting.

"It's become a tourist attraction," said Karen Evans, information specialist at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. "People are taking pictures."

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Just 15 minutes into her shift at the airport on Friday, Evans said she had been asked directions to the new tourist attraction four times. Other airport workers field the same question.

"It's by the Lottery shop, right next to the shoeshine shop," said newsstand worker Abdalla Said, adding he gets the question daily.

At the Royal Zino Shoeshine shop, the owner's grandson, Royal Zino, said he might have been working the day Craig was arrested.

"I might've actually been here. Me and my buddy were watching them doing a sting," he told the Idaho Statesman.

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Zino said he gets to watch tourists now.

"People have been going inside, taking pictures of the stall, taking pictures outside the bathroom door -- man, it's been crazy," he said.

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