"You’ve committed a crime against nature, pervert! Now nature’s going to get you!
Since when has Dateline been considered a bastion of journalistic ethics? Oh yeah, since their revelatory piece on exploding GM trucks. :rolleyes:
Stranger
The pervs were idiots, and deserve to get busted. Those guys should be forced to wear ‘I’m with stupid’ t-shirts in their coffins.
‘With?’
Despite the stupidity and the grossness, we do have a news outlet paying a source AND engaging it what could be described as vigilante justice - not to mention the old ‘scare the parents by telling them the Internet is full of child molesters’ thing.
The New York Times referred to it as “checkbook journalism.”
Apparently the tackling was considered necessary during the one in Florida because of concealed carry. I guess they were assuming that the pervs were going to pistol-whip the children or something.
If they truly believed these guys were carrying concealed weapons, Chris Hansen wouldn’t be standing there berating them for being disgusting pervs.
It seemed to me the cops were really hamming it up for the camera. I’m almost surprised they didn’t taser & pepper spray each one of them once they were tackled.
[Homer Simpson Voice]
Mmmm, pistol whip…(drool and that odd noise he makes)
[/homer simpson voice]
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And yes, Officer Larch in the tree-suit was just frickin’ hilarious. IQUOTE]
Number 1…The Larch.
The Larch.
The…Larch.
Funniest. Hour of TV. EVER.
In fact, I would fully support this becoming a weekly series. Do you know what the best part about this being a weekly series would be? No one would ever learn. They could use the same house, the same screen names, and everything- - they’d still have creepy douchebags willing to try to get in some little girl’s pants.
Tree cop was hilarious. The first time he ran out, my friend and I were gasping for laughter. The look on the Creepy Dudes’ faces totally captured that, “HOLY SHIT THERE’S A TREE ATTACKING ME!” look. Brilliant!
But I think we can all agree that the star perv of that episode was LittleTrini85 (or whatever his screen name was). You know, the guy that Hansen walked in on and said, “You’re naked. There’s a 14 year old girl. You’re chasing the cat. You’ve got COOL WHIP.” That, my friends, is the funniest line ever uttered on Dateline.
I have always wondered why the guys don’t just bolt when they see Chris (mostly because, as someone mentioned, how do they know that he isn’t the girl’s father, ready to beat some ass?), but then I realized something: Dateline probably just doesn’t show us the guys that run. That wouldn’t be good TV, now would it?
And normally, I would feel bad about people being trapped like this and I’d feel even worse about laughing at them; but, ya know what? These guys showed up to diddle children. Perhaps it makes me a bad person, but I find their situations hilarious.
Chris Hansen: "Ahem. You wrote. ’ So have you ever BEEPED a cat?’ "
Is that how you identify a police office from a long distance away?
Maybe this whole thing is a stunt dreamed up by the network to get rid of Hansen without worrying about contract disputes.
“Sorry, no money for Kevlar. Go get 'em, tough guy.”
About the guy in the ghillie suit (that’s the tree cop to you ): I figure it was just like in Alice’s Restaraunt --“they were using us all kinds of police officer equipment they had hanging around the police officer station…”
We had to laugh at the one time a big, black SUV careened up in the yard. No, no they aren’t hamming it up for the camera at all, no sir. :rolleyes:
Mostly these Dateline shows just depress me.
You laugh, but these shows provide a major public service.
You see, I have a rather unusual fetish. I’m aroused by propositioning middle aged male journalists/vigilantes who are pretending to be sexually vulnerable pubescent girls.
And then being restrained by several police officers, at least one of whom is dressed like a tree.
All while being filmed.
Thanks to Dateline NBC, my wildest fantasies can come true.
I only caught the last 20 minutes or so of the show, best TV ever. I thought the last one was funny as hell (I like seeing this type of pervert get arrested) but tree cop took the cake.
I can see just the cops at the station going “hey, Dateline wants us to nap these perverts on TV. I wonder what we should do to make this more fun. Ya know, Bob used to work for Disney; I wonder if he still has that tree suit from Animal Kingdom? He does?! Oh, this is going to be the best sting EVER!”
The mind of the pervert.
Hey, here’s a taker. I wonder if she likes Cool Whip? She does. I wonder if she has a cat. BONUS! All I have to do is strip when I enter the house.
driving to the house
Gosh. I just remembered that show I saw on Dateline. I wonder if… naw. I’m sure this 14 year old girl is into Cool Whip and cats. That’s not strange at all. She wants me.
entering house
I’ll just whip off my pants. HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY!
Dateline comes out
Oh crap. I’m busted. I knew I should have stayed at home are jerked off to the Olsen Twins on Full House.
Shit. They’re letting me leave? That was close. How sureal was that?
leaves the house
I am so lucky. I’m going to be on TV for being a perv but at least I didn’t get arrested. I think… errr… why is that shrub moving?
WHY IS THAT SHRUB RUNNING AT ME?!?!?!?
getting handcuffed
Why am I getting arrested by a shrub?
Man, this is gold, I say Gold! What you need now is to make it an event where a cross-section of regular people become competing sting teams and they challenge each other to see who can nab more suspects and/or come up with the best set-up…
Nah. He’s not that bad. He’s not John Stossel. Gimme a break John! You’re a moron!
As if the New York Times is in a place to talk.
No one checked Jayson Blair’s sources. It was good entertainment. Why check them? People love the stories!
insert barfy smiley here
Mind if I ask where you got your journalism degree? The Times did fuck up big time with Blair, but it’s loopy to say that it had anything to do with money. They failed to do a number of things, but no newspaper in the world is going to watch every step their reporters take. If you’re unable to trust your employees, you can’t run your business.
Oh, I’m not really sure what these people are thinking. Somehow I got the impression none of these guys truly expected a cute little 14-year-old would be there waiting for them. Although, I’m sure they were hoping, “maybe this one time, my dreams will come true! This 14-year-old really is into whipped cream, duct tape & rope!”
I kinda suspect most of these guys, if they’ve ever done this before, are used to the fact that every time they show up at one of these houses, it’s one of their fellow perverts waiting for them. “Oh, man! Well, I brought beer. Want one?”