that dateline pedophile sting stuff

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the below article made me think of this. whenever dateline does this, it's like the same thing as 'extreme home makeover', albeit the sense of smug satisfaction the host and his team oozes not being 'happiness' at helping poor folks but rather 'outrage' at the people they're catching.

of course these people need to be off the streets, but the episodes still make me a little ill for reasons beyond the disgusting perps that are caught in the net. then again, if it starts to make pedos think twice about trying to meet anyone through the internet, maybe it's a good thing?

Prosecutor Kills Himself in Texas Raid Over Child Sex

By TIM EATON
Published: November 7, 2006
TERRELL, Tex., Nov. 6 — A prosecutor in this North Texas town killed himself Sunday as the police tried to arrest him on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet from a person he thought was a 13-year-old boy.

The prosecutor, Louis Conradt Jr., 56, had been caught in a sting operation set up by Dateline NBC, the television news magazine, and an Internet watchdog group called Perverted Justice. An NBC camera crew was outside the house to film the scene when the fatal shot was fired.

Mr. Conradt had refused to open the door when police officers arrived at his house, where he lived alone, said Sgt. Snow Robertson of the Police Department in Murphy, a nearby town where officers said Mr. Conradt intended to meet the boy he thought he had communicated with.

Officers eventually forced their way into the house, only to find that Mr. Conradt had shot himself in the head with a small-caliber semi-automatic handgun, Sergeant Robertson said. Mr. Conradt died later at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

Police officers from Murphy had gone to the house with a tactical team and two officers from Terrell to serve a warrant for Mr. Conradt’s arrest. One of the officers from Terrell knew Mr. Conradt from his work as a prosecutor, Sergeant Robertson said.

Mr. Conradt had been a district attorney in Kaufman County and was the chief felony assistant district attorney in Rockwall County at the time of his death.

The police planned to search his computer and his house, Sergeant Robertson said.

The sergeant’s department had been working with Perverted Justice and NBC News in a sting operation singling out people who solicit sex from children.

Allison Gollust, an NBC News spokeswoman, said the crew for Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator” series was taping as the police approached the house. But Ms. Gollust added that no one from Dateline had had contact with Mr. Conradt and that there was nothing to suggest that he had seen the crew before he turned the gun on himself.

“There’s absolutely no evidence that would suggest that he was aware of us,” Ms. Gollust said. “We don’t anticipate making a change to our reporting.”

Xavier Von Erck, director of operations with Perverted Justice, said Mr. Conradt had made contact in an AOL chat room with a decoy from Perverted Justice who was posing as a 13-year-old boy. Mr. Von Erck would not disclose the details of the chat, but he said, “It was sexual in nature.”

Unlike some suspects in pedophile stings that appear on “Dateline NBC,” Mr. Conradt had not actually met the person he thought was the teenager, but Sergeant Robertson said he planned to do so. Perverted Justice staff members found profiles from Mr. Conradt on AOL, Yahoo and MySpace.com, Mr. Von Erck said. He also said that he thought Mr. Conradt had tried to erase at least one online profile, on MySpace.com, a popular online social networking community used mainly by teenagers, in the moments before he shot himself.

Sergeant Robertson said the police in his town of 3,100 had apprehended 22 other people in stings since last Thursday, mostly from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with the help of Perverted Justice. He said more would be arrested in the coming days.

“We’ll continue to work with them right now,” Sergeant Robertson said.

Perverted Justice stings have led to the arrests of 260 people nationwide this year, Mr. Von Erck said.

Several residents in this town of 14,000 about 30 miles east of Dallas said they were shocked to hear the accusations of pedophilia against Mr. Conradt, who had served two terms as district attorney.

Kirby Webb, an investment advisor from Terrell, said he never wanted to hear about people taking their own lives, but he applauded law enforcement’s effort to catch online child predators in the town.

“This is a good family town,” Mr. Webb said. “We want to preserve that image.”

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

the shit is compulsively watchable, admittedly.

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

the only "ill" feelings it might cause me is the sick vigilante/voeuyrism thing that accompanies it. no sympathy whatsoever for the complete fucking dumbasses who get caught up in it.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

it just seems like it's going to drive this sort of activity even further underground, although it's not really like drugs or prostitution where it can be safe and fun-fun all around

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

they are catching people who need to be caught but further the misconception that big bad perverts are out there to hurt your children!! the majority of children who are sexually assaulted are done so by relatives/friends and shows like this aren't targeting those people (directly).

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

I find the gloating/righteous/self-congratulatory tone of those reports pretty hard to take, esp. at 8:00 AM on the Today show.

easier and more legal than lynching the pervert I guess.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

the people who are caught need to be caught, obviously, and i have little sympathy for them but there is this lynch mob mentality about the whole process that seems to be cruel and unusual punishment (plus one wonders about the impact of such a heightened expose on the perp's wife, kids, parents, etc)

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

but how dumb are these fuckheads? this show's on every damn day. they definitely deserve to be caught.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

what cracks me up is when i've seen this show, there's usually one dude who's all like, 'yeah i thought this might be a setup', which goes to show how twisted/stupid these guys are.

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

one guy was excited to be on tv

wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

it's alarming how many people get caught by this. it's the same suburban house for all of them, and each episode has like 8 guys getting nabbed! so it's not pulling in the family/position of trust abusers (the real crime, as Sam said), and if there is such a thing as a savvy, career "net predator" they aren't getting them either.

geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

it's not as bad as this, anyway:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/19/neighbor.stabbed.ap/index.html

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

yeah a lot of these dudes they catch seem like the slightly creepy 23 year old guys who still hangs out with high school kids and probably don't even realize hooking up with that one cute 16 year old girl in the group isn't kosher.

there was that one guy they caught who brought his 3 yr old son along with him to the house, though.

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I'm slightly disturbed by the way they celebrate and lionize the people who are doing the baiting. Obviously the sting operatives are doing something they feel to be right by trapping child predators, but you've got to be a little tapped to volunteer to pose as a sexually-interested adolescent for 12 hours at a time -- they seem almost as compelled by the sexuality of children as the creeps they bait.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

I have looked into doing this myself. My reason is though that I was abused as a child (he is still doing time) and it would be personally vindicating. Perhaps some of these volunteers have similar, personal reasons.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

You know, if someone with leanings toward children was very, very canny, they'd get hired as the supposed teenager and use some kind of "insider" tip-off to warn his correspondents. It wouldn't work forever but it would certainly cause a mess in the meanwhile.

Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

they mention in the obligatory listing of legal stuff that one of the charges is "travelling with intent to commit x" meaning that if a guy gets cold feet, even if he doesn't even turn in the driveway, they can nail him at least on that (also meaning they could just get the dude in the driveway w/o any kind of show, no fun there i guess).

they guy with his kid was really unsettling and bizarre and awful. but the next step after thinking "wow, how many asshole abuser wierdos are out there" is thinking "uh ok this is kind of a lot of low hanging fruit you're bringing in"

geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, aren't there are plenty of internet perverts who willingly pretend to be adolescent children for their own jollies?

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

The fact that they are still catching people boggles my mind.

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

I don't mean to reverse the issue and villify the baiters, but their motivations seem a little murky.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

what motivations do you imagine they have?

Dateline/Perverted Justice is certainly the most well-known but law enforcement agencies across the country do these sorts of stings all the time.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

the ends justify the means, totally. those fucking creeps need to be locked away. I don't give a country fuck if only 15% of molestation occurs from strangers. If it drives these scumballs further underground, all the better. More importantly, if it even scares off one non-stranger then the mission is a worthy one.

I would love to see a clip show of courtroom theatrics where victim's parents get to berate scumball molesters. Actually, I'm sure I could "create" a clipshow over at YouTube.

don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

uh

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Classic if only for the jokes.

Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

if it even scares off one non-stranger then the mission is a worthy one

but that's what so nuts, it doesn't seem to be doing so! you could only really measure this by seeing the number of guys drop off, but as of now they're still lining up at the door to get arrested with a camera in their face. i don't know whether to think this is a good thing (paedos r dumm, reel them all in) or not (how fkn many creeps are there? how many more have already moved off radar?)

geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i would really not like to see that clipshow, btw.

geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really know what their motivations might be. I understand, as you brought up, Poxy, there are folks who do this whose lives have been affected by sexual abuse against children, either against themselves or their families, and that seems a perfectly rational motivation. There are also folks who do it because it's their job as law enforcement officers.

I dunno, maybe it's because of the Rev.-Haggard-gay-sex-&-meth story in the news cycle now, but I can't help but suspect the motivation of persons obsessed with persecuting "perverts" as a way of sublimating / doing penenace for their own shameful urges.

And yes, I realize I'm on extremely shaky ground here. Just throwing it out there.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

but that's what so nuts, it doesn't seem to be doing so!

there's no way to measure this although there are loads of studies showing the influence of deterrence on crime.

also, although the vast majority of molestation occurs from non-strangers, that might be a condition of convenience. In other words, scumballs probably have an easier time raping their relatives and gym class students rather than kids who they don't know.

don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

I would probably start clipshow with that black woman screaming at Jeffery Dahmer. And without looking, I'm sure that's on YouTube.

don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever I see this photo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Disney_World_Girl.jpg

I think about the person who had to doctor that child abuse photo to make it "presentable" for the public.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

u r a creep

xpost

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

There was a thread about a really famous Hip Hop artist setting up his own sting ops on internet pedophiles and "not getting the police involved."

Who was it?

researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

bereaved victims' uncontrollable horror, grief, and rage, A+++++ VERY ENTERTAINING REWARDS REPEAT VIEWS

geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

pleasant plains, what's the story behind that?

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

i don't understand that photo. it is creepy completely.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

the next step after thinking "wow, how many asshole abuser wierdos are out there" is thinking "uh ok this is kind of a lot of low hanging fruit you're bringing in"

yeah i mean i watch this show and i think these dudes are creepy scumfucks but i also think the really, really twisted, fucked up ones aren't the ones stealing out to some 15 yr old girl's house hoping to get a blowjob. though i guess that one dude with the cat fetish is another story ; (

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

that picture had an underage girl doing some sex act on the bed; police photoshopped her out so that the public could ID the location

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

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

i was curious too so i googled the jpg

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

time to start scavenging the WDYLL threads

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

wow, all this time you never bothered me Mickey but everyone's right. You are an ass!

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

OTM

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

This is a sincere question: how is this not entrapment?

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

In jurisprudence, entrapment is a legal defense by which a defendant may argue that he or she should not be held criminally liable for actions which broke the law, because they were induced (or entrapped) by the police to commit said acts. For the defense to be successful, the defendant must demonstrate that the police induced an otherwise unwilling person to commit a crime. However, when a person is predisposed to commit a crime, offering opportunities to commit the crime is not entrapment, a widely held misconception similar to the idea that police officers must answer questions truthfully if they are asked the same question three times, or that they must say "yes" if asked if they are a police officer.

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

(from all-knowing Wikipedia)

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

predisposed to commit a crime

Whoof, vague-o-rama. So they basically have to blackmail you into comitting a crime for it to be entrapment? And even then you have to be crying while you do it?

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Eppy, this part could be wrong, but I think entrapment can only happen if initiated by the state. i don't think private individuals/corporations (ie, Dateline, MSNBC, etc) can "entrap" people.

other than that, entrapment can only be proven if the accused did not already want to initiate the crime. so, it's my understanding that the Dateline people just go online in these chat rooms that are likely to attract pedophiles and be provocative/flirtatious enough for the pedophile to make an advance. unless the Dateline people themselves proposed sexual conduct, they didn't legally entrap the accused.

or so i understand.

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

pushing drugs on some kid until he relents and buys a nickel bag even though he said "no" like thirty times=entrapment

selling drugs to kid who asks for them=okay

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

these shocking exposes always make me think it must be some kind of sweeps period

hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

the idea that police officers must answer questions truthfully if they are asked the same question three times

what is this, candyman?

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

t's my understanding that the Dateline people just go online in these chat rooms that are likely to attract pedophiles and be provocative/flirtatious enough for the pedophile to make an advance

wow, this is just so wrong.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

there was that candyman sequel where it was discovered if you shouted "please don't!" 7 times candyman would not kill you.

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

why? just curious

xpost

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Wrong as in innaccurate or wrong as in repugnant?

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

so wait, this guy DIDNT actually go to meet the kid and they went after him anyway??

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

you think victims flirt and are provocative? all these stings do are go in chat rooms as kids, and wait. these predators iniatate things, not potential or actual victims.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

yeah plus these people don't want to waste their time on trying to get people, they want to get the people to come to them. i imagine someone underage in a chatroom trying to initiate something would raise red flags, maybe?

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

and jess, yes. based on what he said online, they had enough for a warrant for the Terrell prosectuor.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Jess--they mention in the obligatory listing of legal stuff that one of the charges is "travelling with intent to commit x" meaning that if a guy gets cold feet, even if he doesn't even turn in the driveway, they can nail him at least on that (also meaning they could just get the dude in the driveway w/o any kind of show, no fun there i guess).

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Do they go into, like "Teenchat" rooms, or ones with a more overtly sexual name?

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

i spent a little time looking at the perverted justice site and apparently they target "regional" chat rooms.

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

as opposed to... "national" ones?

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

by which i assume they mean like "peeps in saginaw" or "what's up amarillo" or whatever. not overtly sexual stuff. stuff where people can actually track kids in their actual area.

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

8thgradersinWaco

gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

more detailed info on their doings i really dont care to read

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

from the perverted justice website:
Perverted-Justice.com recruits volunteer contributors who pose as underage children in chatrooms. Posing from a variety of ages (standard ages are 10-15), these contributors simply go into chatrooms with fake online screennames and wait for predators to instigate conversation with them. Are you curious as to what our contributors see when they go into chat with these underage names? Finding out for yourself is easy. Simply go to Yahoo.com, create a new profile, put underage information in your profile (works best if you are posing as a girl), then log into any regional chatroom (perhaps even the one closest to your own community). Without even saying anything in the chatroom, you will often be deluged by PM's that will occassionally be open solicitations for sex or "grooming" (an adult preparing, through conversation, an underage child for such solicitations). Now simply imagine if, instead of you, it actually was a young child logging online only to receive this "perverted" greeting from fellow chatters. Hence, the problem.

and

We have an official "rules of engagement" that we instruct to a contributor when they're brought aboard to help out with the site. One of those rules is that unless asked to in the chat, always let the male PM you. That way they can't cry that the "kid" messaged them in IM first, they have to take the first step. Typically, and I stress typically one of our operatives will be chatting on the main screen, or announce their presence (A/S/L) in the rooms . . . sadly, and typically, they almost always receive interest. Often, just entering a chat room is enough to get 3-10 instant messages at once without having to say anything.

We are philosophically against anyone or any organization that contacts people first as underage personas. There is no reason to do that when online predators are so numerous and motivated to contact what they think is a 10-15 year old male or female first. We want threats and we are happy to wait as long as it takes to find them.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

selling drugs to kid who asks for them=okay

good. i've been meaning to check on the legality of that one.

researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

why are they called 'perverted justice'? is this some kinda admission of the whole bread & circuses/public execution aspect of it or just a weird freudian slip?

and what (ooo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I apologize for posting that picture without giving some back story. Few things bother me as much as the history behind that picture.

Here's a decent article about entrapment and police stings in regard to internet predators. It also addresses the issue of how a guy can act like a thirteen-year old day after day without getting warped.

Molly makes some good points above about "Dateline". I mean, I'm really glad that they're nabbing some of these people, but there is something sensationalistic about it all as well.

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

selling drugs to kid who asks for them=okay
good. i've been meaning to check on the legality of that one.

-- researching ur life (goforgrad...), Today. (grady) (link)

a bit thick? i meant that it's not entrapment if a police officer does it

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

i think you mean "zing."

either way.

researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

you think victims flirt and are provocative? all these stings do are go in chat rooms as kids, and wait. these predators iniatate things, not potential or actual victims.

-- Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (poxyfule...) (webmail), November 7th, 2006. (Molly Jones)

1. i'm not talking about "victims." i'm talking about the fake victims who pose as kids to make good tv.
2. yes, i do think they act flirtatious or provocative to ease attracting pedophiles. i could be wrong, but i think it's more likely they'd be in these teen chat rooms saying things that would attract pedophiles rather than simply sitting idly in there with names like molly13.
3. yes, obviously the actual meeting for sex is initiated by the pedophile. that is exactly what i said.

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

(I am totally roffling that there used to be a yuppie food chain in MA called "Bread & Circus".)

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

from perverted justice, again:

We have an official "rules of engagement" that we instruct to a contributor when they're brought aboard to help out with the site. One of those rules is that unless asked to in the chat, always let the male PM you. That way they can't cry that the "kid" messaged them in IM first, they have to take the first step. Typically, and I stress typically one of our operatives will be chatting on the main screen, or announce their presence (A/S/L) in the rooms . . . sadly, and typically, they almost always receive interest. Often, just entering a chat room is enough to get 3-10 instant messages at once without having to say anything.

--

the whole point is to pose as a potential victim and act like a real victim would act: e.g. not being provocative.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

or maybe i'm wrong about point 2. according to the perverted justice webpage, that is exactly what they do. well, anyways, you sure are a sensitive little flower if you think what i said is repugnant.

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Hahahaha way to hammer home the "Mickey is an asshole" opinion!

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

cap'n save-a-felon

and what (ooo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

but anyways, i wouldn't exactly put blind faith in the most sensationalistic tv "news" program out there to be entirely honest.

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost
I can think you're repugnant while I simutaneously put my foot up your ass, no problem.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

and what, shouldn't you be busy copy and pasting your own jokes on the noise board or something?

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

people, think of the children

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I don't go to the noise board and don't consider myself particuarly funny. I just don't think I'm being overly sensitive in wanting to call you out.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think i was talking to you

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

ladies, you're both pretty

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

you consistently post your own joke

and what (ooo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

people, think of the children

I believe they are the future.

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

sorry, you posted right after me without an xpost so I assumed, you know.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

okay, dan and jess are ruining all serious ass-kicking conversation. i'm going home.

Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

i've never actually watched one of these shows but i am kind of amazed that they're advertising them at, like, 8 in the morning when i'm getting ready for work and watching the view.

bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

One of those things where to admit that it was at ALL creepy would negate their whole point. They're protecting children, so what's wrong with children seeing how we're protecting them? If they have to cordon it off as "sensitive material" then they admit there's a prurient interest.

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

i've never actually watched one of these shows but i am kind of amazed that they're advertising them at, like, 8 in the morning when i'm getting ready for work and watching the view.

-- bo janglin (wt...) (webmail), November 7th, 2006. (dubplatestyle)

i'd imagine their primary audience is mothers who are up at 8 in the morning watching the view. think of the children.

like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Perverted Justice's Rob Feinstein bust is probably the second funniest thing on the internet.

dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

I have a problem with the thought-crime angle - so you've got someone chatting to a non-existent child and wanting to meet them. The harm/infringement of rights angle (that provide the basis for criminal law) goes out the window - you're punishing someone for what he could potentially have done to an entirely fictional character.

And Sam, you may place a bit too much trust in stated 'rules of engagement' - none of us actually know what they do in the chatroom and 'Perverted Justice' wouldn't have any interest in telling you if they initiate contact (or start talking about how much they love sex/etc.).

milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Today shows excerpts from the Dateline stings in the AM.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

what are you talking about w/r/t "thought-crime"? the guys are being busted after they've walked into what they thought was the home of a underage girl.

Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe someone should pose as a pedophile and go into chatrooms and try and find out exactly how they work.

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

i thought i was killing someone who was a just a doll, so i was charged with murder

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen this Dateline segment once, but I recall the Perverted Justice folks saying something like "Young people are curious about sex, they don't really know anything about it, but they're interested."

I'd imagine successfully imitating an adolescent is expressing such an interest in sex; they may not *initiate* conversations about sex, but you can bet they have such conversations.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is arranging to meet with an underage person a crime? What would a prosecutor have to prove in order to convict one of these people in a court of law (as opposed to the court of public opinion, which is more favorable to vigilante justice)?

o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

When is Pete Townshend going to show up on this thread?

don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

The home of an underage girl who doesn't exist, Chesty. No one was harmed, no one's rights were violated, there was no physical or mental abuse - it's a crime that exists entirely in the mind of the pedophile.

milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

To cut things a little more finely, as said above, they don't necessarily get busted for sexual assult in that case, they get charged with "intent" or maybe with child endangerment. Do these make them official sex offenders where they have to register and whatnot?

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, there is a public welfare issue, and it's not a "thought" crime, they at the very least were soliciting what they thought were underage kids, and at the most performed the physical act of trying to go and have sex with said underage kid. You can think it all you want, but that is one of the ways you can act on it.

Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

I found it!

Cam’ron Vigilante Pedophile Justice Sting DVD

researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

it probably makes them sex offenders.

I think you have a slight point though Milo. BUT can it be safely assumed that some of these scumball predators would probably pull out their c0cks and get down and dirty? Granted, these stings are made for TV and all, but should we be glad that it's only a mind crime and assume that nothing else would have happened?

don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

milo should people who buy fake drugs from undercover agents not be prosecuted?

Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago)


hah, I knew this would be on YouTube

don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

i just hope when cam busts child molesters he has his verse from 'thoia thong' playing in the background

and what (ooo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

Massive x-post

Since these cases eventually go to court and win convictions (I'm pretty sure they've said that on the show), the decoys probably don't initiate any sexual talk. The transcripts are used in the cases.

nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

there are folks who do this whose lives have been affected by sexual abuse against children, either against themselves or their families, and that seems a perfectly rational motivation...I can't help but suspect the motivation of persons obsessed with persecuting "perverts" as a way of sublimating / doing [penance] for their own shameful urges.

OTM. When someone seems obsessed with pedophiles, wants to devote their energy to tracking them down, rants about how they should be executed, then I tend to think to myself, "OK, that person is sexually attracted to minors, and is other-izing what they feel guilty about." Especially the dudes who froth at the mouth, say "No punishment is too harsh for these people", etc.

The intersection between {people I know who have been abused} and {people I know who are obsessed with pedophile-hunting} is near zero. Most of the molestation victims I've known just want to get on with their lives, and not be defined / define themselves by the abuse they suffered; they'll speak up when appropriate, but they don't spend their time salivating over this bread & circuses shit.

lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

It could also serve as a partial explanation as to the wild popularity of the show.

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

I used to go to regional chatrooms years ago, and anyone with screen name that could possibly be female (like anything other than "DragonKnight69") gets bombarded with solicitations. I can definitely see how Dateline/Perverted Justice can find their "guests" without being overtly sexual or flirty.

The show is pretty awful though -- I can't help feeling bad for the guys they catch.

Chris H. (chrisherbert), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

The show deserves a weekly airing.

Watching pedophiles get caught Schadenfraude is all the rage this year!

researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

hey im upstairs finishing up laundry. come on in. i made you some sweet tea :)

chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

just take a seat, i cut myself and i'm trying to find a band-aid lolz ;-P

researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, the one where the guy gets completley naked is the best.

researching ur life (grady), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

i like when the guys are like "yah i brought some barles n james and capn crunch!"

then

BAM

mofucker gets PWNED
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/05/17/arts/17stan.jpg

chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

"thought crime" wtf, there are intent laws on the books for a billion things

geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

Intent laws that involve another, extant, human being.

milo should people who buy fake drugs from undercover agents not be prosecuted?
Um, no, they shouldn't.

milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

there is a difference between "thought" and physically attempting to act out that thought. that is why someone may think about having sex with children, but not drive across town expecting to get down with one.

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

I think that guys who stop themselves in the driveway shouldn't be prosecuted, largely because they really haven't done anything yet. Lots of people think about doing illegal, wrong things but stop themselves; is it right to punish someone for controlling themselves?

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

there's that whole business about stuff they bring along too, like alcohol and condoms. if they arrive with any of that, they're in even deeper shit.

gear (gear), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone should carry those though.

Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

Alcohol and condoms: bad
Your toddler: COPACETIC

The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone hear the Seven Second Delay where Andy and a female FMU blogger attempt a Dateline-style sting on car rental company phone reps? Takes a while to heat up, but hilarious:

http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=20695&archive=30643

(they first mention the idea around 10 mins and it doesn't even get going for another 10-15 mins as is usually the case with Andy Breckman show ideas)

A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

Um, no, they shouldn't.

no need to studder.
i agree with dan re: the guys who, er, pull out of the deal at any time beforehand.
i really don't understand milo's Technicality thinking. what difference does it make if the girl/drugs are or aren't real? esp w/r/t underage girls due to the extreme difficulty of catching a guy before he's done any harm yet after his actions have given police enough cause to arrest. you're misusing the term thought-crime, ie the subject not the object is the relevant variable.

Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

What difference does it make if the person against whom a crime is being committed exists or does not exist? That seems self-evident to me, if you believe that laws should exist to protect the rights and interests of persons.

If a person does not exist, he or she cannot be violated.


What's the difference if a guy is clearly interested in pedophilia, but doesn't walk through the threshold? There's no logic to that. These are pre-emptive arrests and prosecutions - you're taking someone down because they could, theoretically, actually hook up with a minor down the road. If they'll drive across town, but change their mind (maybe they got suspicious of the unmarked cars on the street) - why aren't they just as much of a threat to do it again (to a real person) as the guy who walked in?

The entirety of the crime is what's going on in the guy's head - if he's made his intent clear (rolling up with a batch of jello shots and a six-pack of condoms), shouldn't he be just as much of a mark as the guy who comes to the door?

milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

you're taking someone down because they could, theoretically, actually hook up with a minor down the road.

no, you're taking them down because, with premeditation, they entered a minor's home with the intention of engaging in sex acts with them. for me, this (along with the fake-drugs bust) is valid because in the perp's mind, the girl is real. this is not the same thing as a thought-crime where EVERYTHING takes place in the mind, ie the girl can be real but entering her home is imagined. i can see what your point is and why you probably think it, i just disagree.

Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

i can see what your point is and why you probably think it, i just disagree.

AWARD FOR THREAD'S MOST BIGGEST EUPHEMISM

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

yall are even SLIGHTLY hating at the fact that Cam is tryngta do sumthing bout child molestors?????? doggy, that’s really wack of yall.

this’s a SEERRRRIOOOUSSS ass issue, like 1/4 of kids on the internet & chat rooms get hollared at EVERYDAY in really disgusting filthy manner by disgusting filthy people. THat shit is real and seriosu as cancer,–do you know how many kids are on the net???

Cam’s being a MOOOREEE than stand-up dude, and yall sitting here hating on him. sure, make fun of how surreal the idea is, but SHOW proper respect ta the wildly humanitarian duty as well. That right there is doing more for the world than ANYTHING you’ve ever thought about contributing ta making the world a better place. like really, fuck your life doggy. you ain’t doing shit for the world. go out & do sum good doggy! be a vigilante like Cam doggy!

I have a friend that did sumthing similar last year, where he lured a 40 year old sicko pervert out ta his house saying he was a kid & told him ta bring a case of beer. Then when he showed up he jacked dude for 250 dollars & his ID card & a broken nose.
and I mean, my friend is kinda a lazy abusive fuck up generally speaking, but that 1 event I feel like was heroic & redeemed him 100%. VIGILANTE JUSTICE NIGGA!!

and I support Cam just the same! lol. do sumthing good with YOUR life nigga! you’ll feel better bout yourself and your weed will taste better & the world will suddenly smell like good clean pussy. try that do-gooding shit out!

posted by Cavebaby — February 14, 2006 @ 9:30 pm

am0n (am0n), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

Chesty, first - they didn't enter a minor's home. Period. So the crime is entirely in their minds - they've taken no physical steps toward pederasty or statutory rape, except for walking through a door.

So if you drive 300 miles and walk through a door, you're probably going to attack someone in the future - but if you drive 300 miles and stop at the curb, you're not?

milo z (mlp), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

(he asked nervously)

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

ha

am0n (am0n), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=SEERRRRIOOOUSSS

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 9 November 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

hey milo i got a number you can call where they are real good at answering these sorts of questions: 911

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 9 November 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

it's kind of sad how obviously camron is projecting

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 9 November 2006 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

do sumthing good with YOUR life nigga! you’ll feel better bout yourself and your weed will taste better & the world will suddenly smell like good clean pussy. try that do-gooding shit out!

wow.

M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 9 November 2006 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

so that's why everything smells like dirty pussy all the time!

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 9 November 2006 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

lol

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 November 2006 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

So if you drive 300 miles and walk through a door, you're probably going to attack someone in the future - but if you drive 300 miles and stop at the curb, you're not?

yes. exactly. congrats.

Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago)

what if the police had a suspicion that a guy was going to murder his wife while she slept. they placed a dummy in the bed, and sure enough, he stabbed the dummy 55 times before finally realizing it wasn't an EXTANT person. this person should walk away scot free, right?

Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

he would probably get a restraining order but that action would have to be initiated by his wife, not the state

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

a divorce as well, and we all know those aren't free

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:50 (eighteen years ago)

I also can't help feeling bad for the perverts who get busted. I think it very often goes well beyond 'how could they be so stupid?' into solid, serious mental illness, where logic and reason just don't apply. It's not as attractive to consider this, because it takes a lot of the exciting melodrama of revenge and 'justice' out of the equation, but these people are often times very sick and in thrall to the instincts of that sickness. They need help, treatment, etc.; not to be thrown on TV by a smug asshole with a $300 haircut and then tackled by a bunch of thugs with their own horrible issues. (That said, I am physically unable to change the channel when this is on, etc.)

Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

"I just came over here to warn her that she doesn't know who she's talking to on the Internet."

Joe (Joe), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

"So, you're a *mentor*..."

Joe (Joe), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

"I wanted to be a big brother to him"

researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2006/10/02/the-perversions-of-%E2%80%9Cperverted-justice%E2%80%9D/

and what (ooo), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

ugh

gear (gear), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

side note: i'm doing a story on the crazies: the xxx church for a journalism class. they recently came and did a little event at a local church here. amusingly enough, just a month or so ago someone in that church got busted for producing child porn.

like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

i really don't have a point

like murderinging (modestmickey), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

“See you later masturbator, after a while, pedophile.”
“Squeeze no child’s behind”
“a/s/l”
“Coast to coast, we make predators toast”

What the fucking hahahahhahahahha jesus.

Andrew (enneff), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/post-1486-1149307672.jpg

a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/8012/urpl9.jpg

and what (ooo), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

Well of course!

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

I think it very often goes well beyond 'how could they be so stupid?' into solid, serious mental illness, where logic and reason just don't apply.

one dude they just busted was obviously retarded.

chaki (chaki), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/111506/sting.gif

elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.wroclaw.nop.org.pl/materialy/pedofil.jpg

Run!

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:41 (eighteen years ago)

I've never seen a cock that... sharp.

milo z (mlp), Saturday, 18 November 2006 06:55 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...
I read today that one of the people they busted in Long Beach last month was Matty Nash, the founder of the music/performance group Mutaytor.

nickn (nickn), Sunday, 11 February 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

This show is now on every week!!!

Tuesday's episode featured a guy who sent pictures of his "hueg c0ck" to the decoy and then after he got busted and they were booking him he had to empty his pockets and there was a this gigantic dong in his jeans pocket - the kind with a suction cup on the base.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Sunday, 11 February 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

the braindamaged dude they busted twice is my favorite

I used to have ethical problems with this whole thing, but by now, these people should know better

kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://bp0.blogger.com/_yWgB5oBoljY/RcErtyzGQZI/AAAAAAAAAAs/M7VsjxTBs-0/s1600-h/predator-michaelseibert.jpg

oops.

jambalaya backgammon (grady), Sunday, 11 February 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

haha "these pedophiles should know better"

cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

woah! i always hated mutaytor!

chaki (chaki), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:10 (eighteen years ago)

February 9, 2007 E-mail story Print Most E-Mailed


Mutaytor won't die
L.A.'s techno-funk-rock collective plans to weather the scandal after its founder gets nabbed on 'Dateline's' 'Catch a Predator' series.

By Ron Garmon, Special to The Times


More than one raver or beat-hippie idly surfing network TV on the evening of Jan. 30 knew a brute shock of the all-too-familiar. NBC's "Dateline," in another installment of its sordid and successful "To Catch a Predator" series, rolled tape on the latest batch of vermin lured to an obscure Long Beach residence with online promises of sex with (fictitious) young teens.

Caught in "Dateline's" on-camera haul was musician Matty Nash, the percussionist-founder of L.A. techno-funk-rock circus the Mutaytor, and one of the few actual celebrities to emerge from the Burning Man subculture. Looking wan and paranoid, Nash bolted the house after host Chris Hanson strode into view with a hammy, "Did you bring your drums, Matty?" only to meet police officers waiting outside.

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In the days since the broadcast, Nash has departed the act he founded, and has pleaded not guilty to the pending felony charge of an attempted lewd or lascivious act with a minor arising from last September's sting. This leaves the remaining 35 members of the Mutaytor collective to build another meaning out of the group's motto, "Plot, Scheme, Toil, Smash, Repeat."

The Mutaytor was born when Nash set up his drums at the 1998 Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert to pound out polyrhythms for dusty revelers. Eventually came belly dancers, fire-eaters, trapeze artists and spinners of flaming poi, with the whole meshugas taking high-concept shape as a Mad Max compound of Cirque du Soleil and "Soul Train." The act received favorable notice, soon breaking out of the Burner underground into Hollywood venues such as the Key Club and similar high-profile bookings on the outdoor-festival circuit.

With an album and concert DVD in the pipeline, what next for the Mutaytor? The act's democratic structure plugs the group into the Burner underground that's still its principal fan base. Judging from postings on Burn-dominated Tribe.net, the Mutaytor faithful appear torn between loyalty and outrage, with a generous dose of the personal rancor for which online communities are famous. The dominant mood seems to be an anxious suspension of judgment.

Remarkably, most of the group didn't hear about Matty's woes until after the broadcast, which led to a furious debate among members that was still going on as the curtain went up on its gig Wednesday night at the Knitting Factory. Backstage, several Mutaytor cast members discussed the incident before the show.

Of Nash, dreadlocked Buck Down (co-writer with Atom Smith of most of the group's music and one of the act's longest-tenured members) was blunt: "At this point, he has no connection with us. He has nothing more than a historical link to this project. Whatever it does from now on will be without Matty." Nash's wife of 13 years, who goes by the single name Crunchy, is staying on as stage manager/den mom.

"Everybody's seen the clip at this point," Down conceded. "Even if he goes to court and more than wins, the damage is already done. He did quite a job of containing this from us. Nobody saw it coming. This worst of surprises is costing us enormously." Specifically, he said the group has lost its manager and booking agency.

"What we've got left," Down said, "is a great band, a great show and a lot of supporters. If you look at the support we've received on Tribe.net, we made it out with about an 85% approval rating and there is no worse publicity than this. We've survived a Category 5 PR [disaster]. Professionally, you don't get worse."

"If we have to go back to playing in the dirt, I'm fine with that," he said with a shrug. "As a house band for Burning Man, we've taken a microcosm of how it works and looked for ways to sustain that. The most gratifying shows we ever did weren't on any stage. Just put the drums in the dust and let 'er rip. As long as we're doing that, we can survive this."

What gigs are left as the Mutaytor? "This one and two in Tahoe," he replied. "The rest are canceled or pending."

Roo, fire performer and roustabout, added, "There's talk of changing our name, but we don't want to give up everything that we as a collective have been working for for a quarter of my life. We're playing tonight as the Mutaytor; after that, I don't know. Musically, Matty wrote part of two drum songs. The main songwriting is from Atom and Buck and all the other decisions are made collectively by us, the performers. None of us are ready to give this up. No way."

Bassist Jon Avila, formerly of Oingo Boingo, said, "The Mutaytor is a family and we're going to get through this." Hoop dancer KJ added, "It hasn't been about any one of us in a very long time. We all came out of the audience and the band has actually regained some performers due to this. Many acts would buckle, but we won't. What we do is mutate."

Diehards displayed their support by bulging the Knitting Factory to near-capacity on Wednesday, with scores of festival vets slicked into the usual wildly extroverted display of desert bling and battery-powered wardrobe.

"Boy, are we glad to see you!" Buck bellowed as fans unloaded vociferous love on the ragged and motley act. Onstage was mad hustle and eyes shining in a vindication perhaps terminally late for a dozen hungry ambitions as the troupe slid without visible effort into joyous renditions of an incendiary catalog. The desert disco of "On Fire Like This" and "Drop the Laundry" uncoiled like dusty whirlwinds as cast and crowd shook it down mightily.

Neither a funeral nor a wake, this show was a reunion for a hardscrabble musical family.

chaki (chaki), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:15 (eighteen years ago)

Good luck to 'em!

mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

haha "these pedophiles should know better"

indeed. They *do* know better, that's not the issue.

So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

To reiterate something that was said upthread:

this happens = classic, they need to get caught.
it's a TV show = dud.

StanM (StanM), Sunday, 11 February 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

L.A.'s techno-funk-rock collective

some things are worse than pedophilia...

GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 11 February 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

ten months pass...

i think dr. scholl's marketing division is genius to get its massage chairs as the centerpiece of these new stings! the chairs perfect for internet predators!

johnny crunch, Saturday, 29 December 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dFf-BhUzk

gr8080, Saturday, 29 December 2007 06:02 (seventeen years ago)

that dateline pedophile zing stuff

haitch, Saturday, 29 December 2007 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

LDPZC

dell, Saturday, 29 December 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

is anyone watching the new Chris Hansen sting op where he takes down identity thieves? this shit is way way more intersting than pedophiles.

gr8080, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:35 (seventeen years ago)

seriously they are pulling some international spy shit that makes the Bumfuck, USA Police Departments come off as way boring.

gr8080, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

wtf

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/media/11network.html?

and what, Friday, 13 February 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

oh ffs

I hate ppl

Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Friday, 13 February 2009 20:23 (sixteen years ago)

is anyone watching the new Chris Hansen sting op where he takes down identity thieves? this shit is way way more intersting than pedophiles.

― gr8080, Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:35 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously they are pulling some international spy shit that makes the Bumfuck, USA Police Departments come off as way boring.

― gr8080, Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:42 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark

^this was actually remarkable

happy house of representatives (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 February 2009 20:24 (sixteen years ago)

tcap is an old favorite - any fan of zinging should be fan imo

happy house of representatives (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 February 2009 20:25 (sixteen years ago)

Mr. Ungar said Goucher was unaware of the indictment until NBC News arrived on the campus in December. He then contacted Alison Des Forges, a senior adviser at Human Rights Watch, who said she was skeptical about the evidence against Mr. Munyakazi.

“It seemed to me really highly unusual for a national prosecutor in one country to enter another country without official clearance and to accompany a TV crew in order to basically catch people unaware,” she said.

she just died in that plane crash O_O

memo from norv turner (omar little), Friday, 13 February 2009 20:30 (sixteen years ago)

i still cant believe that group is called perverted justice

s1ocki, Friday, 13 February 2009 22:44 (sixteen years ago)

you could never make that shit up.

s1ocki, Friday, 13 February 2009 22:48 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlzXvMOKe8&feature=youtu.be

buzza, Saturday, 21 May 2011 23:49 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009511/To-Catch-Predators-Chris-Hansen-caught-cheating-wife.html

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:17 (fourteen years ago)

Hansen, who has two young sons, was caught in an undercover sting operation arranged by the National Enquirer.

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 20:19 (fourteen years ago)

If I were a superhero like Dr. Hansen, and I ran what was probably the most morally and civicly righteous television show of all time and had that taken away from me and I was reduced to doing "To Catch a Bicycle Thief" and "To Catch a Bath Salt" segments... I'll just say I'm not surprised. Those ignorant bastards. Hopefully he'll be able to revive TCAP to come back from this.

kkvgz, Thursday, 30 June 2011 11:20 (fourteen years ago)

not that bicycle theives don't deserve to get theirs, though...

kkvgz, Thursday, 30 June 2011 11:28 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, let's sit back and watch the irony pile up as people try to compare cheating on one's wife, which is not a crime, to soliciting sex from minors, which is a crime everywhere.

Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 12:49 (fourteen years ago)

Well, 'exposing' 24yrold lads that meet up with 16yrold girls.

That's not a crime, here.

Mark G, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:10 (fourteen years ago)

His wife and mistress look a lot a like, except for a somewhat noticeable age difference. I notice that is the case a lot in these situations.

Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:33 (fourteen years ago)

Well, 'exposing' 24yrold lads that meet up with 16yrold girls.

oh come on 90% of the decoys say they're 12-14

blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:36 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, let's sit back and watch the irony pile up as people try to compare cheating on one's wife, which is not a crime, to soliciting sex from minors, which is a crime everywhere.

I don't think anyone is trying to argue that the crimes are similar in the least.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:37 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i think the "argument" is more that this guy's a douche

call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:37 (fourteen years ago)

my argument is simply this: "lol"

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:38 (fourteen years ago)

^^^

blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:39 (fourteen years ago)

Well, 'exposing' 24yrold lads that meet up with 16yrold girls.

That's not a crime, here.

― Mark G, Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:10 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's not the case in the US in a majority of states either (I'm assuming you're outside the US). In very many states the age of consent is 16.

Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:39 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.webistry.net/jan/consent.html

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

(to underscore Bill's point)

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:42 (fourteen years ago)

Yes, and again, the "Perverted Justice" dudes with whom Hansen has worked always portrayed themselves as under the age of consent in the jurisdiction in which the sting was taking place. If they didn't, none of the people with whom they interacted would have been convicted.

Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

good lord, south carolina

Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:48 (fourteen years ago)

How about that footnote on Mississippi?

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:49 (fourteen years ago)

o_O

I feel like Phil is trying to stir up an argument that no one really wants to have.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:52 (fourteen years ago)

Mississippi 16 - [2]

waht

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:52 (fourteen years ago)

I'm not saying anyone here is making those arguments, jon, but they're gonna be made. Just watch.

Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

e.g., "About 142 results (0.11 seconds) for "Chris Hansen"+"hypocrite" in past 24 hours"

Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:56 (fourteen years ago)

thanks for getting out in front of this one.

call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:56 (fourteen years ago)

I think people are just lolling at "smarmy dude gets caught using the same means he likes to employ" not "wow cheating on you wife is as bad as being a pedophile!".

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:58 (fourteen years ago)

I'll bet they didn't pull it off with chris hansen's finesse

blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:59 (fourteen years ago)

I hope they caught him bringing in a 4-pack of wine coolers

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:00 (fourteen years ago)

my argument is simply this: "lol"

― DJP, Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:38 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

I thought of this show when all the stuff about that gross dude in the van started to blow up.

Fa la la (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:02 (fourteen years ago)

and that is ALL i am going to say about that situation right there, so *not* trying to stir anything here pls note

Fa la la (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:05 (fourteen years ago)

Hansen all following his girlfriend into a darkened room, then backing out slowly, followed by his wife and a cameraman.

kkvgz, Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)

"Why don't you have a seat right over here and talk to me for a minute?"

online pinata store (Nicole), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)

I'm confusing this thread with the Bristol-Sarah slashfic thread.

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:10 (fourteen years ago)

There probably is a way to tie it all together.

online pinata store (Nicole), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:12 (fourteen years ago)

"Come have a seat, you betcha!"

Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:14 (fourteen years ago)

The Mississippi thing has me so nauseous/angry.

kkvgz, Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:16 (fourteen years ago)

Wow stay classy, M-I-crooked letter.

you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

what the fuck mississippi

horseshoe, Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:52 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, words really can't express how fucked up I find that rider

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:56 (fourteen years ago)

you'll never catch me defending this place

the presidential candidate inside me (WmC), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:58 (fourteen years ago)

just glad nat'l enquirer is running sting ops now

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:00 (fourteen years ago)

can't wait for them to turn their powers on Shia TheBeef

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:01 (fourteen years ago)

never forget

PEOPLE FROM GEORGIA

buzza, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:09 (fourteen years ago)

I think that Mississippi thing is outdated or simply wrong

MS criminal code according to another site:
"(2)  Neither the victim’s consent nor the victim’s lack of chastity is a defense to a charge of statutory rape. "

bill magill (milo z), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:27 (fourteen years ago)

I'm confusing this thread with the Bristol-Sarah slashfic thread.
―The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 30, 2011

waht

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

2012 republican presidential nominee

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:32 (fourteen years ago)

cleverly disguised as "2012 republican presidential nominee"

blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:34 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.realmofdarkness.net/sounds/hansen/chrishansen-soundboard-2.htm

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:35 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCkolIsO1ic

"I don't wanna be on the news, dawg."
"Well, it's a little late for that, dawg."
He quickly comes up with a... disguise!

blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:38 (fourteen years ago)

The Mississippi thing is so fucked and confusing. Like, I don't even really get how that makes any sense at all.

I'm really freaked out by how much Hanson's wife and mistress look alike. I mean - it's ridiculous.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

he's clearly a man with...predilections.

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:43 (fourteen years ago)

just let me drive baby . . . I'll show you heaven

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)

predilicktions

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:44 (fourteen years ago)

preyledicktions

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:45 (fourteen years ago)

preydelicktions

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

preydelickshots

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

preydicklic . . . no, I'm not going to do it.

Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:46 (fourteen years ago)

I feel like in general the similarities are a sign that really wants to be w his wife, but a version from before life happened to them. Like whatever their cumulative issues/damage are from over the years, the version from before that, when responsibilities were less demanding, and personal failures on both sides hadn't made everything much more complicated.

you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

http://i55.tinypic.com/2wpulg8.gif

blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:47 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3FxdOBXWC8

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

i bet marc ecko was really plzd with that free advertisement

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

oh man the disguise is the best

Laurel - yeah, I think you're probably onto something. It's still very strange though.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:49 (fourteen years ago)

omg dying at the crank calls

I'm cute though, built good?

Well, that's fun.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

oh man those phone calls

blended haircrüt (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:50 (fourteen years ago)

"laugh out loud"

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

i wish he'd just use "lawl"

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:51 (fourteen years ago)

omg that was amazing

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

oh yeah

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

I have tears in my eyes from trying so hard not to lawl at my desk.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:52 (fourteen years ago)

it's a funny desk

Mark G, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)

ha

DJP, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

enbb is called into her boss's office later and asked to just have a seat over there

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)

Don't say that!!!

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.gifsoup.com/view/143102/to-catch-a-streaker-o.gif

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

just a bit of fun on a thread about pedos, lets just have a seat over there and be cool

death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

omg the naked guy

youtube?

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)

i can't control my horny level

☂ (max), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazY7cLfHr0

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:08 (fourteen years ago)

Wait i probably shouldn't watch that at work, right?

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

i can't control my horny level

― ☂ (max), Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:08 PM

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=47

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:09 (fourteen years ago)

laugh out loud

☂ (max), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

lawl

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:12 (fourteen years ago)

"horny level" is p much the funniest thing I've ever to me right now

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:12 (fourteen years ago)

cleanest, best lawl

buzza, Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:47 (fourteen years ago)

buzza ^_____^

dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 17:03 (fourteen years ago)

http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/homer-and-apu-picture.png

rip nyc chicken (am0n), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:20 (fourteen years ago)

Hey, smashed hat. Why don't you have a seat over there.

shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

four months pass...
one month passes...

In a sensational new twist to an outrageous scandal, “Dateline NBC” star Chris Hansen is still cheating with his sexy girlfriend months after The ENQUIRER exposed the affair – and now he’s vowing to dump his wife for her, say sources.

In our July 11, 2011, issue, The ENQUIRER exposed Hansen – best known for catching Internet sex perverts on “To Catch a Predator” – for straying from his wife Mary and hooking up with Kristyn Caddell, then a news reporter at NBC affiliate WPTV in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Although Kristyn, 30, resigned from her news position in December and is moving to the Tampa area, an insider says the twosome are still sneaking around behind Mary’s back. And the 52-year-old newsman is promising his girlfriend a bright future together, says the source.

“Exposing the scan­dal didn’t stop Chris and Kristyn from seeing each other – it just taught them to be more careful when they’re meeting,” re­vealed a close source.

“After they were caught cheating, Chris encouraged her to lay low for a while to let the scandal blow over, but they vowed to resume the relationship when there weren’t so many prying eyes.

“Now that Kristyn isn’t in the public eye, it’s a lot easier for them.

“She’s flown to a secret location to meet with Chris at least twice since the cheating scandal broke, and they speak regularly on the telephone.”

Meantime, the source says that Mary hasbeen loyally standing by her two-timing hus­band’s side.

“It’s sickening because Chris has been telling Kristyn all along that he intends to leave his wife for her,” the source revealed. “He’s just waiting for the right time."

Best-Penis (buzza), Thursday, 5 January 2012 07:52 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

Time is moving too fast these days.

http://i.imgur.com/oCdxOjg.jpg

pplains, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:07 (ten years ago)

I guess we're about at the point where kids born when that show was on are old enough to chat now.

pplains, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:07 (ten years ago)

But anyway, back to HANSEN vs PREDATOR: http://www.hansenvpredator.com/

http://i.imgur.com/yXD0Huh.gif

pplains, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:08 (ten years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Mn5Fkr2.jpg

pplains, Saturday, 16 May 2015 17:11 (ten years ago)


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