You're busted, Buddy!

thefasteriwalk

Brian Bates, the 'video vigilante,' trawls the streets of his hometown, Oklahoma City, following 'Johns' who pick up street prostitutes. He waits for them to engage in their activities and then confronts the 'John,' capturing everything on video. He has hundreds of these videos on youtube account and has his own website where he names and shames those involved.

There are some really disturbing videos that he has recorded outside schools and playgrounds.

So, what do you make of this guy?

Lisha

Why would he do that ?

The Guy is an idiot, simple as.

Dont be at yourself

Brian Bates... Mister Bates? Master Bates? There's gotta be something there...

thefasteriwalk

Lisha wrote: »

Why would he do that ?

The Guy is an idiot, simple as.

He claims to be trying to rid the streets of Oklahoma City of street prostitution.

AnonoBoy

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Brian Bates... Mister Bates? Master Bates? There's gotta be something there...

Can't see any possibility of jokes myself.

The Backwards Man

Sounds like a guilty pervert trying to justify himself.

minidazzler

The creep here is the guy following hookers with a camera.

Lisha

thefasteriwalk wrote: »

He claims to be trying to rid the streets of Oklahoma City of street prostitution.

Well he might like to work on eradicating drug addiction, child abuse, poverty, and alcoholism first.
Then maybe ensuring excellent free education to all leading to very well paying jobs for everyone in the world.
Then of course getting all of mankind to treat everyone with respect.

Prostitution often a symptom of wider problem. It is not a stand alone issue.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Brave guy. Somebody or gang obviously runs the prostitution rings in the city, if he doesn't watch himself he could end up on a slab.

Rayne Wooney

He's definitely going to get a severe beating one day, it's inevitable really.

Esoteric_

Sounds like a bit of a voyeur tbh. Following prostitutes and their clients? Could he not just go have a **** to some porn ffs?

thefasteriwalk

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Brave guy. Somebody or gang obviously runs the prostitution rings in the city, if he doesn't watch himself he could end up on a slab.

Yeah, there are videos of him confronting pimps too. Apparently he's been doing this for years and is really well known in the States.

orestes

I think I'll take my lessons in morality from someone other than a self-righteous idiot following prostitutes around with a video camera.

smellslikeshoes

Vigilante my arse, he has 60 million youtube views. Even forgetting about his own website traffic he is getting a liveable wage from being a youtube partner.

IvySlayer

Does he ever confront the prostitutes?

AnonoBoy

IvySlayer wrote: »

Does he ever confront the prostitutes?

'Confront'..... yeah, that's what he calls it alright.

thefasteriwalk

IvySlayer wrote: »

Does he ever confront the prostitutes?

Not so much. He seems to think the only way to stop it is to scare the men away, for fear of being caught on camera. He seems to catch the same women over and over. Most of them are crack addicts and their addiction seems to make them apathetic to it. He has done a lot of interviews with Oklahoma's prostitutes, though:

Grayson

That guy is an arsehole.

I think he gets some kind of powertrip from it. Look at me. Aren't I fan-fcuking-tastic.

Cavehill Red

He seems like a highly manipulative man, using vulnerable prostitutes to aggrandise himself and make money. He comes across as creepy and weird.
Why didn't he just pass on a message from Yvonne to her daughter instead of filming it (with plenty of jump cuts) and putting it on the web where he can monetise it?
Because he's lining his pocket on other people's misery is why.
If he's going to appoint himself the judge of other people's morality, he leaves himself open to me judging him, the creepy manipulative voyeur.

shanered

"I think I'll go out hiding in bushes and filming people getting hookers and jump in cock-block, humiliate and piss off people in the middle of the act."

It really is a fantastic idea!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Youtube, Insert Homer Simpson sexual harassment video here, too lazy to do it myself, slash youtube.

.Henry Sellers.

He's a real life Rowdy Roddy Peeper.

Gorilla Rising

Loser who couldn't get into the police force? Most likely failed the psych test.

I think what he's doing is pathetic...and weird.

Duckworth_Luas

They're women and they're on their own!

cml387

Does anyone think he sounds like Reverend Lovejoy?


Lovejoy... HAH

Odysseus

thefasteriwalk wrote: »

Not so much. He seems to think the only way to stop it is to scare the men away, for fear of being caught on camera. He seems to catch the same women over and over. Most of them are crack addicts and their addiction seems to make them apathetic to it. He has done a lot of interviews with Oklahoma's prostitutes, though:

I hate seeing sh!te like that interview, I spend a lot of my time listening to people's stories like that womans. However, I respect their stories and their life, I wonder if he paid her to do that interview, I wouls imagine so.

That womans story deserves to be respected not thrown on the net as part of someone crusade, in my opinion he just used that woman.

A sad sad man, he must have a sh!te life if this is what he has to do in order to feel good about himself.

rolliepoley

If he is making money off this well then he is the biggest pimp of them all.

shanered

Somebody should follow him David Attenbrough style commenting on the perverts who stalk perverts.
The commentry would of course have to be as pervy as possible, perv on perv on perv style.
I'm sure it would become an internet craze, triple perving.
Third person dogging, going to be the new craze im tellin ye!

BillyMitchel

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

Brian Bates... Mister Bates? Master Bates? There's gotta be something there...

Says the man whos called done be at yourself!!

Weevil

thefasteriwalk wrote: »

Not so much. He seems to think the only way to stop it is to scare the men away, for fear of being caught on camera. He seems to catch the same women over and over. Most of them are crack addicts and their addiction seems to make them apathetic to it. He has done a lot of interviews with Oklahoma's prostitutes, though:

.....and if any of the women, through good luck or sheer determination, should manage to clean themselves up, they can sleep soundly in the knowledge that, at any one moment in time, some one is watching a YouTube video showing them at their most abjectly pathetic.

What a dickhead.

Esoteric_

He's filming interviews with these women who are in bad circumstances to make money from them.

He's worse than their 'clients.' At least the clients are upfront about wanting to pay for sex, he just uses these women for money and Youtube hits.

Scumbag.

The guy reportedly paid prostitutes to go hooking in areas that were convenient for him to film:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/prostitution-vigilante-hooked-pimping

Cavehill Red

Deleted User wrote: »

The guy reportedly paid prostitutes to go hooking in areas that were convenient for him to film:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/prostitution-vigilante-hooked-pimping

It's some achievement to make men who screw crack-addicted, AIDS-addled hookers and then go home to their wives look morally preferable, but this prick seems to have managed it.

Odysseus

Cavehill Red wrote: »

It's some achievement to make men who screw crack-addicted, AIDS-addled hookers and then go home to their wives look morally preferable, but this prick seems to have managed it.

I would normally take no pleasure in a person becoming a criminal, but in this case I'll make an exception.

Son Of A Vidic

Surprised this creepy weirdo isn't dead already. But no doubt one day, he will open the wrong car door.

monkeysnapper

I wonder if some of thoughs men paid upfront for the service. Or did they get out of paying after they were sprung . All I know is if I'd paid in advance I'd finish the job . Do they take lazer?