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Sex With Couch? Man Faces Possible Jail Time for Curbside Incident

An off-duty police officer out for a jog witnesses the suspect sexually gratifying himself with an abandoned couch left on a curb, according to a criminal complaint.

 

A 46-year-old Waukesha man is facing charges after an off-duty cop jogging through the Pebble Valley neighborhood found the man having sex with an abandoned couch set on a curb, according to a criminal complaint.

Gerard P. Streator was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court on Thursday with one count of lewd and lascivious behavior. If convicted, he faces up to nine months in prison and $10,000 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint:

At 11 p.m. Sept. 3, the off-duty Waukesha police officer was out for a jog on North University Drive near Pebble Valley Road when he spotted an abandoned yellow couch on the curb. He observed Streator by the couch and thrusting his hips as if he was having sex with a person.

The officer approached Streator to see what was going on and yelled “what are you doing,” which caused Streator to run away. The officer didn’t see anyone else on the couch, but the officer realized Streator was thrusting it between the couch cushions for sexual gratification.

The officer chased Streator to an apartment complex in the 2600 block of North University, where he went into a locked lobby, walked upstairs to an apartment and entered. The officer contacted the police department about the incident and discovered Streator’s name.

The next day police went back to the apartment and talked to Streator’s wife. She said police were there the night before, but her husband had done nothing wrong.

Police then went to Country Springs Hotel where Streator works and asked him about the incident. He denied being out, saying he had been at home with his wife and had gone to bed around 10:30 p.m.

He will make his initial appearance in court Oct. 1. 

Related Topics: Lacivious, Pebble Valley Neighborhood, Sexual gratification, Waukesha Crime, Waukesha Police Department, and lewd

TOM

7:12 am on Friday, September 21, 2012

WONDER IF THE OLE LADY WILL STICK UP FOR HIM AFTER BEING DUMPED FOR A COUCH

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Jake

8:00 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

A couch kicked to the curb nonetheless!

Jon Heil

8:35 am on Friday, September 21, 2012

Ha Ha that is funny, got to love the sheep who freak out, maybe jogger wasn't getting any and jealous, who cares if they make out with the couch, too many people freak out about stuff like that, but typical waukesha wanting to milk more money out of people. Always funny to read the crazy stuff that goes on and I would have expected that in other parts of Waukesha :P

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JT

9:54 am on Friday, September 21, 2012

BREAKING NEWS – The prosecutor is dropping the charges because it was revealed that the couch is actually a love seat.

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Tom

11:28 am on Friday, September 21, 2012

BREAKING NEWS - The couch was determined to be under 18 years old and the Waukesha man is now facing felony charges.

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Jordan Bartel

2:14 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012

How do you think it happened? Was he... strollin' down the road and just was overwhelmed with an urge to eff. that. couch? Or do you think he like, drove past it earlier and was like "O hayyyy couch, how you doin?" and made his way on back.

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Orkinman

3:28 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012

All, this isn't funny, this is how BB is spread (Bed Bugs).

Who knows how many other sofa assault victims are in this man's wake.

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kb

3:48 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012

There there's a man who likes "more cushion for the pushin'"

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SWE

4:24 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012

I wonder if he had to take the couch out to a nice dinner with drinks beforehand?

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Deb Strzelecki

6:43 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012

Would he had shared a cigarette afterwards with the couch if the cop hadn't showed up?

LiteBrite

5:42 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012

"Ork", let's not get too misty eyed here, I would guess the sofa wanted it. I doubt we had a "bring out the gimp" situation here.

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LiteBrite

5:49 pm on Friday, September 21, 2012

"Ork", let's not get too misty eyed here, I would guess the sofa wanted it. I doubt we had a "bring out the gimp" situation here.

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Erik

12:06 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012

Breaking news: the couch has nothing to say after the incident however will forever be stained for life.

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Randy1949

12:19 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012

Nine months from now we'll have a new little footstool.

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Brent Pitt

12:51 pm on Saturday, September 22, 2012

I don't get it, why can't he just have sex with his own couch like every other red-blooded American? Oh, he's got a wife. Sucker.

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Alex

5:43 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012

Will the couch have to testify at the trial?

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Alex

5:59 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012

Bail conditions include no contact with couches, sofas, love seats, or any other soft, cushioned furniture. The accused is to have no contact with the victim. Seriously, don't we have more serious issues to prosecute? While this is clearly strange behavior, does this guy deserve to have his life ruined for doing something that he clearly did not intend to be seen by any other person? He ran away when approached. It's not like he did this in front of a group of kids waiting for the school bus. Who is the victim here?

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JW

4:26 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

Some of Alex's thoughts here were also what I as thinking... if he has done nothing else... there HAS to be bigger things than this out there.. and is it worth his reputation and his job that it is taken this far? Granted, I do not mind them checking him out and doing some research to ensure he doesnt have some bigger issues (like pedophelia or child porn or anything substantial... but... otherwise I find it odd and strange no doubt and not a great thing overall by any means, but if it is the only thing there is... really... is it that big a deal? Couldnt this have been handled without it having to be a public mattress, err, matter unless there was found to be more to it or to the guy. And... no I have no idea who the guy is, I am not a relative, nor a friend... nor do I find furniture sexy. If Jim's dad this in American Reunion, we would have laughed at it...

Whatever Dude!

2:54 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012

OMG!! the officer went that FREAKIN FAR!!! really??? Let it go already. Regardless of the fact he should not hv been doing in public, nobody was hurt. It's obvious he didn't intentionally do it in front of people. And the fact he has a wife, tells U there is a bigger problem if the man is banging the couch. He has a job, so he's not some homeless, always in trouble with the law, crime committing citizen. And the cop sd he saw him thrusting his hips, well if he didn't see the wing ding, how he know he was just doing his hip hop abs work out or something.

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Jason J

6:22 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012

And another couch rapist comes out of the closet.

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KKP

6:13 am on Monday, September 24, 2012

Actually, check out CCAP....his record is NOT squeaky clean. Be that as it may, I don't care if anyone was hurt. We, as a decent society, should not "accept" people running around the streets humping anything that doesn't move. I mean, really....PIcture, if you would, some children, the next day, playing in the area, and deciding to have a seat on said couch...would you want HIS bodily fluids mingling with your children? AT any rate, there's a law against this type of behavior. Don't do it if you don't want to get caught. Plain and simple. Go home and bang your wife instead of a discarded piece of furniture.
Idiot.

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JW

4:32 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

Back in the day people would do things that are WRONG and it would stay more of a warning. That is still a lesson. The only legitimate thing I would have real concern with here is whether he has real sexual issues and either this is the tip of the iceberg of real illegal issues or if this is the starting signs of someone who might head that way. Investigating enough to find out more about the guy is fine and actually is probably the right thing to do to protect others in the area in case there is more to his issues.

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Randy1949

5:55 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

Reality check -- What sane person has sex with a couch on a public road? The crime was public lewdness, and people get their names in the paper for a lot less.

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A

11:53 am on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

I'm surprised no one has even considered what to me is pretty obvious: Does this guy have a history of stalking or is he suspected in stalking? It's not normal to have sex "with" a couch. If I were the "owner" of said couch (yes, I KNOW it was being discarded, but someone owned that couch), I'd be really creeped out by the fact that he chose THAT couch for that purpose.

And to the guy who said he didn't mean it to be seen -- please. You don't have sex on the side of a public road in broad daylight and "not expect it to be seen." Dude has a few issues.

Jim Hahn, CFRE

9:07 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012

I've heard in the case of legitimate couch rapes that the ScotchGuard secretes chemicals to prevent impregnation.

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PH

6:33 am on Monday, September 24, 2012

There are several of you....I lost track....who should definitely look into being a stand up comedian! The one liners were excellent! Thanks for the entertainment.

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Carole

9:31 am on Monday, September 24, 2012

I gotta agree with PH...Many of you brightened my day! :>)

Michael

8:53 am on Monday, September 24, 2012

Rather a couch or a dead deer than a child, woman, etc. Big deal. Not hurting anyone.

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ocmommyof4

8:59 am on Monday, September 24, 2012

Please don't say that his job at Country Springs is "room service". Phonetically pronounced "Street Whore" (Streator) !!

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Tom

9:08 am on Monday, September 24, 2012

Streator was thrusting it between the couch cushions.....
-Guess it depends on what the meaning of "it" is.
-Bill Clinton

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Frances Martin

9:38 am on Monday, September 24, 2012

if the couch was over 18(which ,being discarded it probably was) and consented,isn't that ok? and a discarded couch wants to feel valued, too(which it was)-- one last fling before oblivion!

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concerned ctitizen

3:50 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

For all who are saying it's not a big deal or he didn't mean for anyone to see - I think you are forgetting this was happening on curb at the SIDE OF THE ROAD out in public. If he can't control his urges enough to NOT HAVE SEX WITH A COUCH on the side of the road how on earth can he be trusted to do the right thing in any situation? This is not the type of person we want just roaming around our neighborhoods. Good for the officer for pursuing this to be sure we don't end up with a situation later on where, god forbid, a human was his next assault victim.

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Michael

7:34 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

Decorated police officer says:I spent my career busting drug dealers, drunk drivers and theives.
Waukesha police officer says: I spent my career following and busting a Guy who was humping a couch, and arresting an elderly woman for not making it across the street before the don't walk sign started flashing.

Pathetic Waukesha police.

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Randy1949

7:53 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

I thought you cut meat for a living, Michael. I think police officers, decorated or not, spend their time dealing with things that shouldn't be -- including cats in trees, drunk drivers, thieves, murderers, and furniture molesters. You have no call to be calling anyone pathetic..

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lifelongres

9:07 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012

Funny, because another article about a drunk driver on here elicited a bunch of responses about how that person, "wasn't that drunk." Just can't make anyone happy around here.

Michael

9:19 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Giving my opinion Randy, that's all. Too many tax dollars are wasted on ridiculous crap, like this. Because I cut meat, I can't have a voice? Pretty narrow minded for an elderly guy Randy.

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Randy1949

9:31 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

I'm fine with you giving your opinion. Just not with wording that implied you might be a decorated officer.

Furthermore, were you suggesting the officer should have ignored what seemed to be a silly sex incident? I recall some police officers who almost blew off a partially dressed guy in handcuffs. It took some persuading by the victim to get them to go back and investigate what looked to them to be a spat between two *insert slur for homosexuals here*. It turned out to be Jeffrey Dahmer in that apartment.

Michael

9:49 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Nothing I said even implied that I was a decorated officer, I'm not sure how you got to that conclusion.

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Michael

2:38 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

To answer the second part of your question Randy I think you're comparing apples to oranges. These are 2 totally different cases. The man in Waukesha was humping a couch, Dahmer ate people. While both were strange in my book, the severity of each of the crimes was quite different.

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Dewayne

3:54 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

I think raped couches have a way of "shutting down"unwanted pregnancy.

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charles turner

9:29 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012

next time i go to country inn ill never sit on a couch.

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Alex

8:08 am on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

I was married at Country Springs. It will never seem the same. Seriously, I have no idea how the ppolice officer was able to fhase him down, as I would have been laughing so hard that I could not breathe.

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misty lee

9:29 am on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

It's the way the couch was dressed. The couch was asking for it.

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sheri

8:45 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

I think it is sad that so many are taking cheap shots at this guy. I am not defending him or his actions. Obviously this man has some problems and needs some help. I also know the fears that his supposed actions instill. But let's have at least a little compassion.

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Michael

8:58 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012

He could have humped something at home.

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Deb Strzelecki

6:50 am on Thursday, September 27, 2012

Ha ha! And there's an ad for a couch at the bottom of this blog area!

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Patty

2:01 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012

...and Oh my God, he picked the ugliest one!

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PM

1:27 pm on Friday, September 28, 2012

Less of a couch, more of a sexional.

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MA

12:23 am on Saturday, September 29, 2012

Wonder if he named her "Sophia"??

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big ben

5:42 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012

I like hot girls feet! Should I go to jail for that too?

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meganbabette

8:14 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Okay I have to agree Waukesha police go after some minuscule things. But that being said, I don't really think this situation is something to take THAT lightly. I think it's safe to say that a curbside couch in a subdivision is considered in public, displayed where anyone could see it.. And to add to what someone else had said.. who knows if this man has a history of that kind of behavior or worse, a history involving children.. Child pornography, pedophilia, etc. I don't believe this man should in jail - the systems answer to everything - but instead have maybe have a psych eval and definitely some counseling or rehabilitation because there's obviously something going on there.

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meganbabette

8:15 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012

Also, I would think your wife would feel better than a polyester couch?

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Jake

11:22 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013

My only question is whether or not the couch had given proper consent. How do we know the sex was consensual?!?

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erin

11:42 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013

it had cushion for the pushin.....lol

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jenny morales

6:48 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013

At least he wasn't a couch potato.lol

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jenny morales

7:35 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013

Who knows he might have had the morning woods.

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