Journalism in Canada, and the man with three testicles

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Garth Vader
I wish I could un-read that

[KrazyHorse]

[Asher]

This stuff is front-page news in the Empire of Canadia.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

[Asher]

It continues!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081030.wxblatch30/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview

Coach boasted of threesomes, former player testifies, but he knew the game

NAPANEE, ONT. — It was when, for a terrible minute, it appeared to Ian Larocque that the prosecutor was suggesting his youthful forays into group sex had seen him be with another player, another male, that he woke up in the witness box, said "No!" with more conviction than he would utter anything else this day, grabbed the Bible and blurted, "I swear."

Even in the squalid business that is the David Frost sexual exploitation trial, let no hint, however accidental, go unanswered that anything erotic was going on between young men. It was comical the speed with which Mr. Larocque deflected the very possibility, though in fact, prosecutor J. Sandy Tse was just beginning to phrase his question.

Mr. Larocque had been talking about the sexual activity that went on in the Deseronto hotel room where, 12 years ago, Mr. Frost and some of his junior hockey players were living. Mr. Larocque quickly confessed, in his massively inarticulate manner, that "I definitely was involved, and you know, another player, and we were involved at the same time."

So Mr. Tse picked up the thread and asked, "You were with another player?" and the metaphorical light bulb went off over Mr. Larocque's head and he sprinted to set the record straight.

Group sex, threesomes and foursomes, players taking their turns with the same girl, couples having sex in public - that was all normal and standard and, indeed, Mr. Larocque testified, common in the hockey world. But, as his words and mortification made clear, there was nothing gay about it.

It is an attitude that may offer clues to one of the two available interpretations for the lack of actual complainants in this dog's breakfast of a case.

There are two purported complainants or victims - both hockey players who apparently deny that anything untoward happened with Mr. Frost - and Mr. Tse has already said he is not calling them to testify, although Mr. Frost's lawyer, Marie Henein, has hinted she may.

So one interpretation, of course, is the defence position that the threesomes and group sex that other witnesses have testified involved Mr. Frost or were instigated upon his command did not involve him and were not conducted at his direction or urging, but were rather the product of teenage hormones.

As Ms. Henein has said, "The defence is, it didn't happen." And Mr. Frost is pleading not guilty.

The other explanation, illustrated by Mr. Larocque's plain discomfort, might be that any young male in hockey who was sexually taken advantage of by, or involved with, another male would be too ashamed and alarmed at the prospect of the dread spectre of gayness that he would deny it with his dying breath.

Mr. Larocque was one of the players on the now-defunct and unlamented Quinte Hawks, a junior team that Mr. Frost coached in 1996. He was testifying here yesterday under subpoena and was clearly reluctant. His memory was bad, not helped by the years he spent in the minors, getting knocked in the head. He was resentful. As he said just before leaving the courtroom: back in Texas, where he now works as a salesman, "I have a seven-year-old at home and this is not what I want to be doing right now." It was a stretch, the notion of orgy-ist turned homebody, but that's what he said.

He was also obviously fond of Mr. Frost, whom he credited with helping him become the best player he could be, and of his time with the Hawks, the team of which he said, "Every guy on that team I'll remember forever." Indeed, the two yesterday several times exchanged smiles, with Mr. Frost as expressive as he has been since the trial began. Where the now 41-year-old ex-coach and player agent rarely deigned to glance at any of the young women who have testified here, he sat up straight and listened raptly to Mr. Larocque.

The sum of his evidence was that while he recalled no specifics, and while he never saw Mr. Frost engaged in group sex, "I know he said he was having sex with the girls in threesomes" and that the players he remembered Mr. Frost naming as participating in those threesomes were the two alleged victims in this case, as well as Mike Danton, now serving time in a U.S. prison for trying to have Mr. Frost whacked in a bungled murder-for-hire plot four years ago.

Mr. Larocque agreed that Mr. Frost was a control freak, that "Nobody could really do a whole lot without running it past Mr. Frost ... and I mean anything"; that he twice saw Mr. Frost get physically violent with players, one of them Mr. Danton; and that a lot of sex was going on in that hotel room, "threesomes, foursomes, everything. Pretty much all the time, you know, I don't know."

But all that aside, Mr. Larocque said, as a boy who learned to play the national game "in a small town, on a lake," he appreciated someone who could hone his skills to their highest level, and "put up a lot of trust and faith [in Mr. Frost] and bought into the program he was running."

He was one of two witnesses who yesterday confirmed small parts of the evidence given earlier, particularly by the witness named Jennifer. Mr. Larocque confirmed the rampant sexual activity generally, and, with his evidence about Mr. Frost's claim to have been involved in it, the former coach's alleged role. A young woman named Marcia confirmed part of a particular alleged group sex outing, in that she saw Mr. Frost enter a bedroom with Jennifer and her boyfriend, and another player and his girlfriend. Marcia's own role, poignantly, was unexpected and unfamiliar: She found herself foisted upon a player with whom she only reluctantly had intercourse. As she put it, through tears, "Okay, he's alright. I'll see what I can do."

The witness Jennifer, who spent six years in Mr. Frost's world as the girlfriend of one of the alleged victim players, spent much of the day being questioned by Ms. Henein, whose bombshell revelation, as yet unproven, was that Mr. Frost had at the time an enormous blood sac so big "it was almost a third testicle," yet Jennifer, for all the time she claims to have spent naked with Mr. Frost, never saw anything unusual about his private parts.

Ms. Henein painted her as a sexually adventurous young woman who fabricated her claims about Mr. Frost and wasn't under anyone's control. The alleged forced threesomes, Ms. Henein suggested, "are a figment of your imagination?"

"They did happen," the young woman replied. "They happened. Why would I make this up?"

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by Garth Vader
I wish I could un-read that

The title made it almost impossible not to click, and now I wish I hadn't...

[OneFootInTheGrave]

three testicles sounded much better than the actual story

[Asher]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous


The title made it almost impossible not to click, and now I wish I hadn't...

Originally I had just "Journalism in Canada", but then I had the idea to add the third testicle bit -- what man doesn't want to read about a third testicle?

[-Jrabbit]

This Frost character must be a real piece of work... but at least his victims got laid.

[Asher]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
This Frost character must be a real piece of work... but at least his victims got laid.

There were rumours he was going to go watch some Phoenix Coyotes games/practices to "keep track of a young prospect", but Wayne Gretzky (the Coyotes' coach) put the kibosh on that pretty quick, saying he wouldn't be allowed in the arena.

[Elok]

I believe the technical term for the phenomenon referred to in the title is triorchidism.

EDIT: Educate yourselves...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyorchidism

[Asher]

How would you know Elok?

[Krill]

I'm so glad I only read the comments and not the quotes...

[Velociryx]

And in other news, the man with three testicles announced today that he formally endorses Barack Obama.

He also announced that when he has the operation to remove one of his testicles later this month, he plans to send it in a jar to Joe the Plumber, a McCain support of some renown....

-=Vel=-

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Theben


Also no mooses ....

There ya go.