# Dateline perv busts: what if someone is driving by the house at the wrong time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 7, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-perv-busts-what-if-someone-is-driving-by-the-house-at-the-wrong-time/391168 "2007-02-07T01:47:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-perv-busts-what-if-someone-is-driving-by-the-house-at-the-wrong-time/391168/41 "2007-02-08T16:57:00Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] I don’t know. On tonight’s show, at the end I think they said that all those depicted on the show declared they were not guilty in court, but none have been tried yet. [/QUOTE] This doesn’t contract the assertion that the events shown happened months before the air date. It’s not like the prime-time law dramas, you know – the wheel of justice grinds slowly, but exceeding fine. ---
**Author:** ![Driven\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Driven\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Driven_Snow)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-perv-busts-what-if-someone-is-driving-by-the-house-at-the-wrong-time/391168/42 "2007-02-08T22:55:32Z")
[QUOTE=A.R. Cane] there’s a distinct difference between a 40-50 year old chasing a 25-30 year old woman, in some misguided attempt to recapture his youth, and adult men being sexually obsessed w/ pubescent, or even prepubescent children. You’ve got a long way to go to convince me that pedophilia is the result of some natural instinct, in fact I think natural instinct is more likely to be responsible for a man to be less inclined to indulge in such behavior. [/QUOTE] Yes, I imagine you are right. I wish we could get a good discussion of this here. Maybe its as simple as children = small = tight orifices = maximum pleasure for the perv… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dateline-perv-busts-what-if-someone-is-driving-by-the-house-at-the-wrong-time/391168.md?page=2)