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Don't come knockin if the bathroom stall is rockin!

Though I seriously considered skipping this topic, when you write a legal blog, the news that two people were arrested for having sex in a bathroom at Ralph Wilson Stadium during a Bills game is just too good to pass up.
The last time I blogged about sex, it didn't end well for me, so I am going to tread carefully here, but I think there are a few things that need to be addressed.
Before we get into that, if you are reading this, I can't imagine you haven't heard the story, but just in case, here is a brief recap (with a bit of my imagination filling in the blanks): The Bills are now officially one of the worst teams in the NFL. It is cold, they are losing (again) and much alcohol has been consumed. So much, that at some point, two elementary school teachers decide it might be a good idea to ... how can I say this tastefully ... enjoy each other's company inside of a stall at the Ralph. This does not end well, and now they are the butt of jokes literally worldwide.
You might notice I have not mentioned their names, and this brings me to point number one. According to the Buffalo News 26 people were arrested at the game on Sunday. I scanned the entire article looking for the other 24 names. Nothing. I went to the television news sites expecting a long list of derelicts charged with a variety of salacious crimes. Nothing. It seems that out of the 26 arrests made, the media decided to single out the bathroom buddies to what, sell a few more papers? Get a few more clicks?
I'm not condoning what this couple allegedly did. First, have you ever seen the inside of a bathroom at the Ralph? If you haven't, consider yourself lucky, and if you have, you know it isn't exactly the place you imagine having one of those special moments (bear with me, I'm choosing my words carefully, my bosses read this).
What I am saying is this; when people talk about media bias, this is the point. Selectively pulling out these two people and ruining their lives because they made a poor decision while giving 24 other people a free pass. This is why people distrust the media. As one Facebook poster said, if he was an electrician and she worked at Wal-Mart, this would have barely been a story. The media used it because of the sex, but it got legs because the two alleged fornicators are elementary school teachers. This brings me to my second point.
If one more person tells me that they should be fired, publicly flogged and burned at the stake because, "what about the children," I might possibly throw up. Please people, climb down (carefully) off of your high horse and join the rest of us who live in reality.
I have two children, including a daughter in elementary school and if you are putting it on your child's teacher to instill values in your kids, there is mistake number one. Teachers are there to teach reading, writing and arithmetic (that's math for you young readers). A teacher mentions God or sex education and parents lose their minds, but now all of a sudden these teachers should be held to a higher moral standard. Crazy.
I've seen many posts on Facebook over the last 24 hours extolling the virtues of the woman who was allegedly involved in this incident. Parents saying what a wonderful teacher she is and how they would not hesitate to have her teach their students again. Because, and bear with me, this is a radical concept for some people ... what a teacher does outside of the classroom is none of your business and has no bearing on how they teach.
I could ramble on about this, but the bottom line is pretty simple: The people entrusted with educating your children have sex. Some of them have weird sex. Some have extramarital sex. Some have homosexual sex. Some don't have any sex. None of it matters. If you can teach my daughter math, some science, perhaps a bit of history, go home and have sex with whomever or whatever you want.
One final point (I promise): Who put more people at risk on Sunday: the couple who (allegedly) had sex in a bathroom, or the thousands of people who got liquored up and drove home after the game? Of course it is the latter group, but, you see, there is a big difference. The Buffalo Bills, The Erie County Sheriff's and the Orchard Park Police condone the drinking. I watched hundreds of people walk past sheriff's deputies on Sunday, beer in hand, crossing the street. Isn't there an open container law? Apparently not when it comes to our beloved Buffalo Bills. I want to try walking down Abbott Road on a Tuesday afternoon with a beer in my hand and see how that works out for me. My guess is, not so well. A blind eye is turned to the excessive drinking outside the stadium, then the Bills profit handsomely from it inside, so nothing is said.
Drive drunk—all part of the game—have sex in a bathroom and you are some kind of sick, deviant monsters. Maybe if they started selling condoms at the concession stand and there was a buck to be made, bathroom sex might become trendy.
At the end of the day, I hope these teachers don't lose their jobs. They will pay for their mistake, and deal with the fallout in their personal lives, but to lose your career over this seems excessive. If we fired everybody who ever exercised bad judgment, the unemployment numbers would be staggering, the country would be far worse off than it is and this blog would never have been written.


