The Sen. Larry Craig Bathroom at the Minneapolis Airport: ‘It’s Become a Tourist Attraction’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 09.17.07 | 4:53 PM ET
This was inevitable. “When tourists ask for the bathroom in the Minneapolis airport lately, it’s usually not because they have to go,” reports the AP. “It’s because they want to see the stall made famous by U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest in a sex sting.” Karen Evans, information specialist at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, says it’s become a tourist attraction and that “People are taking pictures.”
Some, like the one above, are taken from the exterior by professional news photographers. Others are taken inside by strangely giddy travelers.
How popular has the bathroom become with tourists? From the AP story:
Just 15 minutes into her shift 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.
The Royal Zino Shoeshine shop owner’s grandson, Royal Zino, said it has been hectic.
“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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Photo by AP.