Fire the minuteman now! just don't suspend him. Maybe he should have taken a few lessons from the king of this? The Tiger!

Patriot Pat Propping prostitutes pickle pounced. Say that real fast five times and Billy C. Clinton will appear and grant you three wishes!

LOL... Dude you are the mascot of the patriots and you still need craigslist to get some...! Sad.

Have you ever heard of innocent until proven guilty? They can't just fire him for being suspected of a crime!!

"Sormanti was one of eight johns arrested in the sting, and is one of several people who play Pat the Patriot. Who knows precisely what's been going on in that costume since he's occupied it"? Give it a rest, media; he allegedly solicited a prostitute, he didn't molest a child or murder someone. Grow up and quit the double standard and journalistic hypocrisy. High profile prostitutes in the news lately (Spitzer's self-proclaimed call girl for one) are treated like freaking celebrities, saavy business women, ground breaking heroes of some odd type; victims all. Men that allegedly solicite prostitutes are hardned criminals? The prostitutes are all 'victims'? Yeah, heard ya. Gender equality is a sham; the male bashing never ends.

OK, Who really cares? Is this news worthy? I wasted my time to read a stupid article about someone who likes prostitutes? Seriously, who cares?

Sometimes you just have to laugh. As JBS said: who really cares? Of course it's shameful but some men never move beyond adolescence and thinking with something other than the appendage between their legs.

Rick, you must have a "hard" time "coming" up with newsworthy material, don't you? Seems you are trying too "hard" to come up with the next Tiger story and want to be the first.

You have failed!

I think there's a bit of sarcasm in there combined with a slow news day.

People do need to lighten up.

Warwick PD needs to cut the stupid crap and get out to the malls and stop car theft!

Fishrun. Who is Billy C. Clinton. Were you trying to be funny and screwed up William Jefferson Clinton, perhaps?

Figures... typical angry people from New England! When will they ever learn that Montana is the greatest QB of all time... Brady is just, well, an idiot and overrated!

Let's see: wearing a costume, prostitutes, The Revolutionary Minuteman, a cop from Rhode Island...........there's a joke in there somewhere.

apparently his ex-girlfriend called him minuteman....for different reasons....

More evidence that we don't like in a free country. In some ways, it's like we're still living in the Victorian Era.

If other parts of his body were proportional to his head, he'd have a freakin' harem! Oh, and Mark - we live it when you wordcheck before posting. And yes, I made up "wordcheck."

You telling me he had to pay for it when there are all those easy giant fans out there?

Hey, everyone has to get laid. Who cares? This is a non story. The only story here is the ridiculous costume this guy wears. The real story is the crazy women who have sex with him.

It's William Jefferson Clinton you idiot. The middle initial is a "J" not a "C". If you're going to moronically try to link a former POTUS into an article about a sports mascot, at least be intelligent enough to do it.

Hey. He's a great guy!!! Why are americans such ********. Prostitution is legal in so many european countries. I don't want a relationship ...! Why waste time with dinner and conversation and spend hundreds and smile til it hurts. Just call a hooker and ... Any way i want it as many times as i want it. I bet most of these guys that responded have ugly wives and really should invest in sopmeone that is hot and young!!! Besides if we tax and regulate we could pay for a 3rd WAR!!!!!!!!!

JESUS, ANOTHER SPORTS "FIGURE" WHO CAN'T KEEP HIS PANTS ZIPPED!!
I BET TIGER IS HOPING THAT THIS MASCOT ARTICLE IS GOING TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE HEAT FROM HIM ... HA

With all the infidelity in male sports, the escorts Tiger does two at a time for days on end, Mascots and 2-bit (a bit is a Brititsh Term BTW for old slices of coins) cheap dirty whores, the history of the Cowboys Cheerleading squad AND their linemen (FOR YEARS), basketballs bloopers over the years, Hockey (enough said) ... perhaps they should get off the Human Growth Hormone, The Steroids (Which is TESTOSTERONE INJECTIONS), and they will be able to keep not only their dicks in their pants, but choose some NASTY broad that is a little more discreet. I'm not saying down-and-dirty, nasty, make Hue Heffner(Spelling) blush is bad, but, at least have some common sense around it when this is your livelihood and EVERYONE is watching. I'm a no-body and therefore me caught with some 1-bit whore behind the bar is not headlines, but I'm not pumped full of Anibolic Steroids to the point that would make a racehorse fuck his brother.

Cheers,
P.S. The Brits have always been known for housing some very discreet Madam's through the centuries. Too Bad Tiger didn't tip better.

As has been said in the past, God gave man a head and a penis but only enough blood to operate one at a time.

Legalize it!

I just don't get these guys - willing to put their peckers where so many have been before ...eeeewwww.

I can't believe that the key to happiness is to pay someone to pretend to like you for a few minutes. It's like preferring cheap fake chocolates over a sensuous Godiva truffle. It may be fun on the surface but ultimately very depressing inside. You have a choice to hang around people that are good for you, or bad for you. Think about it. Really.

As a true patriot, Pat the Patriot supports free enterpise. Lighten up, it not like he was a star QB that fathered a bastard.

Uh...actually they can.

Your chocolate analogy is garbage, and if you can't appreciate sleeping around a little, then you're probably ugly, and can't get a good poke from anybody but the resident hicks at your local watering hole. i choose NOT to hang around you, because you're fat, and we all know it.

Sure they can. 'Innocent until proven guilty' is only applicable in the legal system. It does not apply to the relationship between an employer and employee. Should it turn out the minuteman was actually innocent most employers would put the employee back on the payroll. However, in a prostitution sting this is extremely unlikley. But I do agree with most of the comments about this story - why is it even being covered?

Rob, they sure can fire him, it's called employment at will.

"The Drug War guys and the No Fun guys are coming......."

Isn't soliciting prostitution across state line a federal offense. Seems to me these cops are the ones that should be put in jail. As for the poor "Minuteman", better stay home and take things in hand next time.

Califgirl - Some men need sex because it feels good, not because they want to be 'liked for a few minutes'. And some men just don't have "a sensuous Godiva truffle" to trifle with.

Unless you are a psychiatrist, your evaluation of the situation is your own personal thought as a woman, and not based on reality.

Actually, at present he's suspended, which is a prelude to termination, but not before he's found guilty, at which time he'll be fired. Of course, he's just as good as fired, but from a legal perspective, they'd open themselves for a fat lawsuit if they fired him for simply being charged or indicted. What a country!

And in this garden of Edan, with temptations galore
It's boobs versus thongs, It's hard to keep score
But there are still those who spit and throw stones
I hope the shattered glass of their house does not cut to the bone

PEACE ON EARTH!!!

EAW is kinda shaky in Mass...ask companies like EMC who do lots of layoffs, and the occasional termination... There are plenty of attorneys who live off the fees they receive for successfully prosecuting employers who use the EAW clause as a defense.... by doing a suspension (without pay, I'd imagine) and waiting for the criminal case to come to fruition, Pats management has taken the right course...

Boston didnt invent wierd sex addicts and they have little to boast about otherwise. Give it up and besides, any man who has such little self worth as to dress up for a bunch of drunken men has BIGGER issues than sexual depravity. Word up Boston. Get a life

Who cares what this guy does in his free time....really, worry about your kids and not some 47 year old sports mascot.

Hey Jim, YOU should do some spell checking of your own boob brains. "We LIVE IT?" people who live in glass houses shouldn't shower in the nude LOL LOL LOL what a waste

Well if it is not the "sign of the times", an extraordinary gentlemen has been busted in a prostitution sting. Not only will the ailing economy not heal the "wounds" of past relationships in the availability of respectable females in the dating game, the governments that offer jobs to those to thwart this kind of excitement, men and women being able to talk about sex freely, in a forum away from TV, which seems to be the nuetral zone, cause everybody knows they have some very steemy sex scenes going on TV where we here that nobody gets charged with a crime.

So if you want to play with pussy, it looks like you will have to let the media moguls make a buck about it, probably a "real life" TV webisode where single men actually show the "pro life" assholes that wining and dining before a sexual encounter are acceptable ways to have excitement outside of the DSM-IV manual.

When "Christman " and his flock use the manual as a bible and study from it to divide and conquer the population then you have to wonder the efficacy of "XTC" in the first place, which is a widely used aphrodisiac in those enclaves to stimulate the eroticism of the bible. In essence this is church vs. individuals with "no name".

Big friggin deal...the dude only wanted a hummer. Excellent use of our police resources. Idiots!

Now if he was still wearing the costume while visiting the prostitute, that would be weird. . .

WILLMOSE, why do you call an innocent baby that horrible name? Call the father that, call the mother that, but leave the baby out of it!!!!!!!

Seriously...don't you guys have anything more newsworthy to report than this 4th rate tabloid drivel? I'm saying that even for tabloid news, this is 4th rate drivel.

It's Massachusetts, you dont need a reason to be canned. Every company has that privilege here.

Tiger Woods sets a new standard for male pigs.

Who said anything about pretending to like someone? You don't go to a prostitute to chat, you go there to f---k. You think these women have any intentions of talking to you for 4 hours about some random garbage? Please, these women know what they're doing and the majority of them like it as much as this guy did. Sure, some get exploited, but seriously, not everyone has their panties in a bunch like you. Some people see the world and entertainment as just that...not everyone tries to make a moral war out of everything. Some people just want to get off. Simple as that.

But they can fire him for putting himself in a situation that got him ARRESTED.

Cant wait to see the handheld signs on gameday. Gonna be hilarious...if they are allowed to be shown. Who knows,considering the prissy (not to mention fickle) nature of the media. They have no problem reporting on this drivel ,but when it comes to the fun part (the signs), i am thinking they will be sensored. Please media nit-wits ,report on something we care about for a change. As for the police that set up this sting ...find something better to do with your time please. Those of us that have been victims of car theft, and a variety of other crimes that actually have a victim involved ,see this kind of police behavior and cringe. The only victims in this event are the other employees that have to wear the mascot costume. They will bore the brunt of fans ire on gameday. Congrats..you have made some peoples lives miserable .Enjoy that.

how greaat.. now he can join our mascot in Miami, who fondled little boys in the 90's !!! -- YAY TEAM !!!

First Bert, are you Kidding, anything a woman says based on reality?? Back in the 80"s all the women complained they want me to show their feelings,(YEA RIGHT) then they said oh there wimps, can you imagine why so many men are gay,LOL My prefereance is A gal from Europe or another country, at least the will take care of their men. And by the way it should be legal and taxed accordingly.

Billy C. Clinton? Don't you mean 'William J. Clinton?'

See what happens when you try to be cute, and fark up? Someone smears it in your face.

And this garbage is news?????????????????

Uh, the mistake was intentional, hairy, but clearly too subtle for you. The poster wrote "More evidence that we don't like in a free country." See, he meant to say "LIVE in a free country" but wrote "like" so I took the word "like" and changed it to "live."

Geez, they always get my jokes at the Funk and Wagnalls blog.

Leave the Fox Network out of this!

At least someone is scoring in the red zone the last few weeks.

However I do agree that this story is a bit sarcastic and certainly the result of a slow "news" day.

He's so damn ugly he has to wear a mask!

the question raised::::

How can any person be suspended from work unless,
he has be found guilty of a crime...............

and the media's cry for bad taste in rushing out a story.....

is part of the problem thats this country is going through.

he should be suing the paper, for slander and pain and suffering

casing pain with his good name..........

WHO GIVES A FLYING "F" ABOUT THIS NONSENSE

As a good Christian, I believe in original sin, so none of us are innocent not even a new born, we are all sinners. Bastard is not a terrible name. According to dictionary.com bastard is "a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child". That was the usage I was using as it is the most common usage of the word. In slang, a bastard is "a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person". In think that slang definition is not true for either the star QB or the mother of his child. BTW, some of most influental people in history have been bastards (of both kinds).

Thanks JBS...sort of sick of hearing about the sex lives of others. Maybe Pat should meet Tiger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!j/k

Maybe to be an elite athlete you need a strong libido.

Castrate him

It's kinda hard to "frame" someone when it comes to being busted for prostitution. I'm pretty sure the charges are legit...

Some men need sex because it feels good??? So why then do other men need sex? everyone needs or wants sex because it feels good! you dope

Over rated? The guy is breaking all kinds of records. 3 Superbowl rings And has more money than he knows what to do with. He wasn't even first round pick. Gee, I wish I was an idiot

Why is this an issue? Since when are football mascots role models for anyone? No one gives a rat ass who is under the disguise.

It's Rhode Islands fault. Rhode Island should not have made it a crime to have Prostitution inside a building! It's better than doing it in a car or on a motorcylce!

I don't give a rat's behind on any think that is done in the New England area.....

Maybe now some people will understand that paying for sex is part of the very fabric of America's favorite past times...

It seems that being on time is an issue with this organization.

Are they still using convicts to plow the snow off the field?

Prostitute Pets Pat the Patriot's P****.
Film at 11.

It's unfortunate for the Patriots that this article is newsworthy only because of the occupation of this "gentlemen". Notice the other 7 "johns" and where they work weren't mentioned. I think comments like, "Pat the Patriot, beloved mascot of the New England Patriots and inspiration to Boston-area children since 1960, has been arrested in a prostitution sting." and "Who knows precisely what's been going on in that costume since he's occupied it?" are irresponsible because everyone knows it wasn't PAT that was arrested but one of the character performers. That's what the article should be about, the person who made the decision, not the Character who was affected by it. Being in sports, I know how hard it is to protect your brand and this publicity is not something I would wish on any time whether I was a fan of them or not.