What is your favorite part in Catch a Predator?

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As you might have heard, there was a "catch a predator" show that was going on for few years. It has three parts: decoy part, Chriss Hansen part, and police part. Which of the three parts is your favorite?

I love it when they talk the perverts to get naked then the look on their faces when they see Chris Hansen.

It's an immoral show, as immoral as the acts of the people busted on it. Yes, the people being busted on the show have paedophile tendencies, demonstrable by their IM chats - this may or may not be their only kink. But it's a show that fosters the encouragement and progression of extralegal vigilantism, violence, and an extralegal lynch mob mentality in America. Thank God the UK has not been stupid enough to do such a show in its media. But shows like this and the mindset they foster are symptomatic of a society which if it's not careful is on the brink of social collapse - America - this applies also to the rest of the English speaking world where paedophile hysteria is particularly rife. So, no part of the show is my favourite.

I find shows like that repugnant.

The idea of taking something like crime and making it entertainment just seems so low-brow.

Do people here feel sorry for those likely on the spectrum who get busted, or angry that they're making the rest of autistics look bad?

Am I the only person who thinks Chris Hansen is very likely a pedophile himself?

As an American, I agree with Keeno regarding the whole pedophile hysteria business. There are a lot more damaging, more prevalent problems for people to figure out how to manage. To Catch a Predator feeds that hysteria and now people can't even deal with this less consequential problem with any sort of objective fairness. Where vengeance is normally looked down upon, parents can openly cry "if a pedophile ever touched my kids I would kill them" without many people, who would ordinarily discourage seeking vengeance, giving it a second thought (I don't mean that I think such a parent would really attempt to kill a pedophile, but a similar statement ending with "I would kill them," said with the same apparent honesty, would certainly not go unchallenged by a listener).

But I'm not without a sense of humor. The Chris Hansen part because of the cookies and the lemonade.

" Why don't you have a seat over there"

I like the ones where the guys offer some preposterous excuse like...."my computer had a glitch and sent that picture of my penis"! !!


What is it with certain criminals? The phenomenon that i'm speaking of seems prevalent among law-breakers from all socio-economic backgrounds. How stupid can they be to believe that ANYONE (let alone law enforcement) is going to believe the inexpressibly absurd excuses they come up with?