70 gay men in Malaysia arrested in raid

Yahoo distributed this Bernama news service story from Malaysia. The headline is very funny, but the story isn't:

POLICE BUST GAY PARTY, DETAIN ABOUT 70 MEN WEARING JUST A TOWEL

BUTTERWORTH, Nov 2 (Bernama) -- Unlike the 1993 Mel Brooks-directed comedy, 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights', an entertainment centre and two massage parlours hosted separate parties with a difference yesterday.

Apparently, the humble bathroom towel was the 'theme' of the three parties meant exclusively for men.

As it turned out, most of the 70 men who turned up to have fun and frolick with one another, wore just a towel, and nothing else.

The guests, including a foreigner, were allegedly participating in a 'gay party' meant exclusively for homosexuals.

Thus, the police were not amused when they raided the entertainment centre in Jalan Perai Jaya and the massage parlours in Pulau Tikus to find the men frolicking with their male partners, clad only in towels.

They found used and unused condoms scattered on the floor as they rounded up 73 suspected homosexuals in the three separate raids between 5pm and 8.30pm.

A police spokesman told Bernama today that the suspects aged between 20 and 50, were detained to facilitate investigations under Section 377D of the Penal Code for gross indecency.

He said the police were in the midst of tracking down the owner of the entertainment centre who was suspected to have held regular 'gay parties' at the premises.