"I send it to everybody"

I meant Hansen, of course.

Female predators use class rooms, not chat rooms.

Yeah, women don't do it this way. I remember one cop being interviewed about "To Catch a Predator" stating they've never once busted a woman looking for chatroom hook-up pedo-sex.

Yeah, KThor, the link on shortandhappy.com isn't working. Fix please?

Where's the token Bad Karma/ Evil Route dialogue options?

"Hey Chris, I brought enough lube for three. What say you turn off those cameras, get that little bitch back in here, and we have the night of our lives?"

There are more dialog options in the expansion, To Catch A Predator: Yuri's Revenge.

If you have the "Brian" hack you can be this guy:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=42143

It was all a wacky scheme to meet your idol, Chris Hansen.

I am dying to see the episode of this show where one of these guys just owns up to it, flat out. Just "Well, if you have to know, I was going to fuck a 13 year old! God, drag it out of me, why don't you?"

Personally, I think they have been caught by family or friends before and the religion card worked.

"I promise to pray this away if you don't tell anyone!"

I was taken back by that too. I only know of the house setting the use. I guess they got to level up and got a bigger budget for location shots.

Yeah, it's rough watching. I think part of it is that while the individuals caught here are obviously not good people, it's impossible to imagine a situation where teenage girls would want to fuck them.

I feel bad that they were convicted of crimes that they never would have had the capacity to commit in real life, regardless of their intent to actually commit those crimes.

The impossibly awkward situations presented are/were pretty much the entire appeal of the show.

To Baldr, a lot of people feel that way too, about the entire chat room entrapment thing in general. I think it's one of the main things that led to the show no longer being aired.

I think this is why the show is no longer being produced:

http://www.esquire.com/features/predator0907

I can appreciate how your empathy gene can be tweaked by these scenes, but face it, these guys really go out of their way to *do* something they know is wrong- not just chatting. I know how kids can talk the talk, but the likelihood of them actually being ready for sex (especially with someone that old) is pretty much nil; and sex before they're ready tends to mess people up mentally for a very long time. If it was your 13yo daughter they were trying to fuck, I expect you would want them to suffer more than an uncomfortable experience. It's well-placed schadenfreude.

//end o rant, back to giggling

That's not it. I don't feel sorry for the people being cornered. I feel very uncomfortable with the idea that people are taking a vicarious enjoyment out of watching vigilante justice played out. That people sop this up is deeply disturbing to me.

That would be the best CYE ever. It makes me giggle just to think about it.

Thanks for that. It was a really depressing clip and I needed that.

When you have the segment on pretty much every week, it no longer is special.

They all go to jail, sure. Just like the 22 guys who got let off in Texas (Of all places!) because of the shoddy nature of the investigations, and the fact that one of the suspects ended up killing himself after holing up in his house.

Bear in mind that until these men are charged with anything, the presumption of innocent is *supposed* to apply; so "Who cares about some pedo wasting himself?!" would just be an ignorant way of replying.