Copyright-Infringing Mascot Arrested In Sex Sting
Before the Phillies decided to change their AAA affiliate to the newly-formed Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Fightins had the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons as their top minor league team.
The Yankees changed their affiliate over the winter to the Red Barons, renaming them the Yankees, but decided to keep mascot Oscar the Grouch Grump for the upcoming season. And, uh, maybe they wish they didn’t. Because a man who plays Grump was arrested over the weekend for soliciting sex from 14-year-old boy.
Jay S. Hastings (inset) was communicating with a supposed 14-year-old boy over the Internet and went to meet him at the mall on Saturday. Unfortunately for Hastings (but fortunately for humanity), the 14-year-old boy was actually the police. (Surprisingly, this wasn’t part of some sort of Dateline sting operation.)
Oh, and he went to meet with the boy (”boy”) in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees van.
While communicating with the boy online, Hastings trotted out his best NAMBLA rhetoric: “Anything done sexually to someone under 18 by an adult is considered molestation and corruption of minor and if an adult is caught with you, they can go to jail for it, even though you want it and agree to it. 14 and I see no problems, but unfortunately society does.”
Well, I don’t think this guy will be getting into the Mascot Hall of Fame anytime soon, if ever. I bet Big Shot has a better chance of getting in.
Mascot arrested on sex charges [Times Leader]
[Image via Uncle Bob’s Ballparks]
Yesterday: Heroic Father Rents Home Out So 18-Year-Old Daughter Can Lure Men For ‘Sex’ For Televised Special