Police Crash Party at Bull Creek

Northwest Austin's Bull Creek Park is a, idyllic, quiet refuge replete with ancient trees, a bubbling brook and a nearby hiking trail that winds lazily through the hillside. On Saturday mornings we like to take our dog there for a dip in the water. It's a nice spot to reflect quietly on the week's insanities.

And, evidently, it's also a great place for wild group orgies.

Yesterday Austin police arrested 16 people after an ongoing investigation into alleged "illegal sexual activity" at Bull Creek Park. The suspects - quite the motley bunch, ranging from barely-adults (early 20s) to a septuagenarian (which manages to be simultaneously impressive and gross) - were charged with "indecent exposure and public lewdness."

The apparent gay cruising grounds seem to have been popular for quite some time now, with park employees often stumbling into the remains of prior, umm, engagements:

Police, who have conducted three stings and plan more, said their efforts are in response to complaints from neighbors, visitors and volunteers who clean the park and routinely find condoms and other sex-related materials.
Skip Cameron, president of the Bull Creek Foundation, which formed in 1997 to help maintain the park, said volunteers who collect litter once a month have for years found items that indicated people were using the park for sex.

He said visitors often report seeing men entering and leaving restrooms together. Cameron said volunteers asked police to begin cracking down on the activity in recent months and appreciate their efforts.

Bathroom sex! Austinist officially frowns upon such unsanitary practices, and can't help but wonder why these horny Austinites didn't take advantage of the huge natural park mere inches away. Your tax dollars are paying for it!

Police also questioned about 40 other people, who weren't engaging in sexual activity during the crackdown. These folks, several who turned out to be married with children, were merely browsing, as it were.

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By Allen Y Chen in Other on December 1, 2005 8:32 AM 0 Comments

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naturfun

Here's the truth: First, most of the guys arrested in these nazi park stings are married men, or supposedly str8 men out for a little fun on the side. They were not mostly self-identified gays. Second, in almost all cases they are back deep in the bushes where no one could normally see them, and don't do it in front of kids (unless they were real pederasts, most of which are str8). Third, I know that the vice undercover cops sneak through the woods looking for guys back in there doing their thing, like it happened in Rollingwood Park about 10 years ago. In other words, they are aggressive in searching for guys having consensual sex back in the woods, and not responding to visible complaints. And then they entrap a guy if he's by himself, asking if they could take a pic of his dick, or some other BS. I wish someone could stand up to this entrapment shit. I wish the US could be more like the Europenas regarding this furtive activity! It's a waste of taxpayer dollars and police manpower.

SN

Why, my American friends, are you such prudes? Is it the fact that someone was having sex in a location other than a locked bedroom on sterile white sheets, or the fact that it was someone else having that nasty sex?

Lisa

Ohhhhhh. I've wondered why there are always way more cars in the parking lot than there are visible people. I've gone there and seen a dozen cars in the lot yet I'm the only person as far as the eye can see.

But I'm not sure which is more disgusting---that I know what the dogs do in those bushes people are screwing under or that my dog is sticking her nose in places where they've done, well, . . .

odam

sounds almost as lewd as the men's locker room at the gold's gym downtown.

sheesh!

mamalara

Not just the bathrooms, bushes too. Been going on for years. A little courtesy would be appreciated.

I used to hang there often with friends with dogs playing in the sun and water all day, and I can tell you from experience that nothing will spoil the idylic afternoon like seeing a used condom floating down the creek.

stewie

This calls for a party...a sexy party!!!

odam

batting practice? at lunch? for a corporate softball league? hardcore!

Carly Kocurek

Apparently, all the Austin parks are slutty.

Justin Cox

wait, the one im thinking of isnt Bull Creek. Its the one near Parmer and I-35

Justin Cox

Sometimes my co-workers and I would go there at lunch to take batting practice on the days we had company softball games....

Its freaking AMAZING how many very conservative business-types in BMWs and Jaguars would pull up, park and sit in their cars. Eventually they'd scurry into the bathroom for 15-20 minutes.

It was very amusing to watch the reaction as a co-worker filled in one of our more naive, wholesome collegues.