To Catch A Predator: freaky stuff...

KERPAL · 03-06-2008 12:16AM #1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PBLsLgKwx3k

was to told to watch this by a mate, its incredible.

Watch it. And the other related videos

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Overheal · 03-06-2008 12:18AM

I think i threw this up here once or twice. short synopsis is Brian Williams (host) and his team catch sexual predators under the guise of coming over to have sex with underage girls.

These guys do anything when they get there from running right out (into police custody), pleading, bargaining, denial, etc. etc. Most/all are caught in posession of sexual paraphonelia, toys, condoms, etc. and are charged by that evidence and their chat logs (which can be fairly explicit in places)

Its really a revelating watch. Get your kids down for it if theyre on the internet a lot. or even a little.

KERPAL · 03-06-2008 12:23AM

Overheal wrote: »

I think i threw this up here once or twice. short synopsis is Brian Williams (host) and his team catch sexual predators under the guise of coming over to have sex with underage girls.

These guys do anything when they get there from running right out (into police custody), pleading, bargaining, denial, etc. etc. Most/all are caught in posession of sexual paraphonelia, toys, condoms, etc. and are charged by that evidence and their chat logs (which can be fairly explicit in places)

Its really a revelating watch. Get your kids down for it if theyre on the internet a lot. or even a little.

Its unbelievable.

Overheal · 03-06-2008 12:24AM

Its a little amusing. But that may just be Brian Williams - he has his own brand of humour.

KERPAL · 03-06-2008 12:27AM

Overheal wrote: »

Its a little amusing. But that may just be Brian Williams - he has his own brand of humour.

Its someone called Chris Hansen who presents it.

I laughed to my shame..

Overheal · 03-06-2008 12:28AM

Oh, then its a new season or something.

edit: oh wait no i got them mixed up.

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

Winters · 03-06-2008 12:41AM

OMG CHRIS HANSEN!

Its quite a funny show but also shocking to see just how perverted they are and easy it is to trick people online. Those Internet Superhero's on slash b do something similar regularly around adult chat rooms which always provides amusing results.

tribulus · 03-06-2008 01:17AM

That guy is even more smug than Horatio from CSI:Miami! Looks like him too.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-06-2008 01:28AM

I give it 12 months before Jeremy Kyle's doign the saem thing in the UK.

Borneo Fnctn · 03-06-2008 01:49AM

A mate from America introduced me to this show a few months back. We discussed the merits of having our own version of the show... with a few crucial differences.

1. No cameras
2. No cops
3. No mercy.

FunkZ · 03-06-2008 01:55AM

His screams when he's running away from the tazers are hilarious!

Fizman · 03-06-2008 02:15AM

Talk about getting caught by the short n curlies! :eek:

I'm surprised I haven't even heard that this show was in existence! Compelling stuff though!

Couldn't help but clench my fists hard when it was showing the offenders faces at the end!

Ruu_Old · 03-06-2008 02:23AM

Seen it a few times, a huge amount of very, very successful and wealthy business owners throwing their life away. "Have a seat".

tribulus · 03-06-2008 02:25AM

You can see how they immediately become completely submissive once they realise they're f*cked!

Did anyone else get the impression from them that they didn't feel like what they were doing was wrong? //worried smiley

The_Minister · 03-06-2008 02:26AM

Weird.

What's freaky is that I don't get an evil feeling off the bad guy.
He just doesn't seem that weird. Not like you'd think.

SimpleSam06 · 03-06-2008 02:36AM

The_Minister wrote: »

What's freaky is that I don't get an evil feeling off the bad guy.
He just doesn't seem that weird. Not like you'd think.

He probably doesn't see it as weird or evil, himself, so wouldn't be giving off that vibe. Its amazing the justifications people can come up with to conduct the most horrendous acts, and sleep soundly that night.

Edit: Just watched the whole of that, these muppets apparently put a young (13-15) year old girl in a room with a potentially armed man (and he had a fully loaded semi automatic pistol in his car), with a platoon of armed officers outside, all set for the shootout, in the name of entertainment. And zero convictions in 24 arrests. http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgLyXIzmx8E&feature=related Great.

Overheal · 03-06-2008 05:14AM

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

He probably doesn't see it as weird or evil, himself, so wouldn't be giving off that vibe. Its amazing the justifications people can come up with to conduct the most horrendous acts, and sleep soundly that night.

Some know its wrong but it doesnt stop them. When they see the cameras they fall down to their knees etc. and you have to wonder if they arent just digging for sympathy.

Just watched the whole of that, these muppets apparently put a young (13-15) year old girl in a room with a potentially armed man (and he had a fully loaded semi automatic pistol in his car), with a platoon of armed officers outside, all set for the shootout, in the name of entertainment. And zero convictions in 24 arrests. http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgLyXIzmx8E&feature=related Great.

The girl was a trained police officer. The convictions and police enforcement is guaranteed as a result of the internet chat logs and the appearance of the suspect at the scheduled time and place. Primarily they ensure that during the chat they are aware the girl they are speaking to is supposedly underage, that they want to engage in sex and arrange to meet at a specific time and place with certain key distinguishing items (eg. did you bring the whip?) to which the suspect will say Yes. Its all on camera, documented, and is enough for a conviction. But primarily it and the show serves as a detterent to would be felons, getting them worried that the next time they arrange to meet a girl it will be the next sting operation, wether by the NBC show or not.

Sherifu · 03-06-2008 08:45AM

They should hire bubbles for the Irish version.

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BobTheBeat · 03-06-2008 09:15AM

Here's me expecting some kind of vid explaining 'the predator's' weaknesses and how to stop him from setting off the nuclear bomb on his arm.

Sweet jeebus this is mental. It probably would be better if they didnt film it though. Surely there would be a much higher success rate if these fellas werent wise to what could happen

SimpleSam06 · 03-06-2008 10:22AM

Overheal wrote: »

The girl was a trained police officer.

Bollocks she was. She had no idea how to check if he was armed or not, and had to be shown how to check. She was probably sourced by this group "perverted justice", the nice people in the chatrooms, who are not a legal body, are accountable to nobody, and earn in excess of $100,000 per show. Also it doesn't matter if you are innocent or guilty, the minute you show up on that camera you are finished, your life is over, no benefit of a judge or jury. Also did you even look at that link? Its nowhere near guaranteed convictions, you have a prosecutor stating that the show is any prosecutor's worst nightmare.

Overheal wrote: »

But primarily it and the show serves as a detterent to would be felons

No, lets call a spade a spade here. Primarily it and the show serves as entertainment and mucho advertising bucks. It never has and never will serve as a deterrent to real perverts, don't kid yourself. Its the spectacle that sells.

SimpleSam06 · 03-06-2008 10:28AM

The Scientist wrote: »

Is it not seen as Entrapment at all?

Entrapment is when the people in the chatrooms actually initiate the "sex talk". If the perverts initiate it, its not entrapment. Of course we aren't given access to the full transcripts of those chats, so we'll never know. What we can say for sure though, is that entrapment or not, anyone caught on that show is permanently ruined.

humanji · 03-06-2008 10:56AM

bobmeaney wrote: »

Here's me expecting some kind of vid explaining 'the predator's' weaknesses and how to stop him from setting off the nuclear bomb on his arm.

I was hoping it was something to do with that. I've got one hiding in my garden and am desperate to get rid of him. I tried an exterminator, but he was just skinned alive and is still hanging from my tree. Apparently body parts can't go in the green or brown bins, and the black bins aren't collected for another week. And the sun isn't helping the smell.

phantom_lord · 03-06-2008 11:27AM

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r75/rr8rfan/rudern1.gif

Sir Molle · 03-06-2008 11:48AM

Most of the people in this thread have fallen victim to the way the show paints the "offenders" on the show. This show is not a court of law and as someone said earlier, the producers have the power to manipulate and edit what you see for the purpose of entertainment. They have the power to twist facts to make people look more predator like with and leave out some facts that might contradict what they're painting the "predator" out to be like.

The show is disgusting and it is completely unethical to humiliate people the way they do.

KERPAL · 03-06-2008 12:04PM

Sir Molle wrote: »

The show is disgusting and it is completely unethical to humiliate people the way they do.

Nah nah nah, whats disgusting is a man in his mid thirties/mid forties/ mid fifities, bringing a condom to meet up with a girl aged 13,14.
Thats UNETHICAL.

They have done 6 or 7 series of these around america, and SIMPLESAM, i think the amount of people convicted from this show is 117 out of 200.
That case of 25 was in one state in which the state courts needed more evidence.
Id say NBC are doing very well out of it tho, and the presenters ego is probably out of control, but its convicted alot of these pedos.
Its amazing when you see the guys who have heard of the show and tell Hansen that they had a feeling this was gonna happen but still came, its unreal like.

Some guys shot himself in the making of the show(Louis Conradt) when they went to his house to arrest him.
Theres another sick case of an Air Force mechanic about to be deployed to Iraq, he brings his camera to the house and straight away asks the girl can they go upstairs to start taking photos. The usual happens, he tries to bluff, gets arrested. Dies in prison a year later of liver failure, karma much?

The_Minister · 03-06-2008 12:06PM

The fact that they are thought to fabricate the chat logs is disturbing.

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KERPAL · 03-06-2008 12:09PM

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

Entrapment is when the people in the chatrooms actually initiate the "sex talk". If the perverts initiate it, its not entrapment. Of course we aren't given access to the full transcripts of those chats, so we'll never know. What we can say for sure though, is that entrapment or not, anyone caught on that show is permanently ruined.

Ye there have been some cases of entrapment, see the wiki of the show.
In some cases, the subject of sex is brought up by the investigators, but apprently, the majority of the time, the minute sex is mentioned, the Pedos begin to talk of meeting up and ****.
Entrapment is no excuse

Borneo Fnctn · 03-06-2008 12:29PM

KERPAL wrote: »

Its amazing when you see the guys who have heard of the show and tell Hansen that they had a feeling this was gonna happen but still came, its unreal like.

I think one bloke got caught on two seperate occassions.

Sir Molle · 03-06-2008 12:37PM

So they are being convicted of meeting up with a woman pretending to be an early teenage girl for sexual activities? The girl isn't even a kid... Even if any of them ****ed her, how would that be a crime? The fact that he thinks it is a child may be disgusting, but since when is it a crime to pork an adult who looks like a kid?

Entertainment Television has absolutly no place in any justice system unless they are there for observational purposes only.

Child predators are disgusting, but publicly humiliation and trial by media is not justice. This show is ridiculous.

To Catch A Predator: freaky stuff...

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