Chris Hansen caught on tape cheating on his wife

[Speedy]

I'm glad the show is out there, even if it keeps just one kid safe from a pervert.

[OWC Jamie]

I thought they were sued for setting people up and the show cancelled years ago.

[RAMd®d]

I'm in favor of stings, but not when done by civilians, and especially not when done by civilians for a TV show.

I watched the show once and was generally disgusted with the host and the whole thing.

While the irony is not lost on my, the fact that the Enquirer is apparently credited with breaking the story just plain makes me feel dirty.


"To Catch A Predator," a Dateline series, features Hansen and an advocacy organization called Perverted Justice posing as younger women and communicating with older men online, and then catching would-be sex offenders at a location that they and the almost-offender agreed upon.

Older men communication with younger women is now a crime? It looks like the level of reporting isn't any higher than that of the "police work" of the show.


with Kristyn Caddell, a Florida NBC affiliate news reporter twenty one years his junior,

Wow. I almost fell sorry for Hansen. At this point, I don't how who's the bad guy.

[NewtonMP2100]

....CHEATERS never win....and winners never CHEAT......???

[Mike Johnson]

I'm not comfortable with reality tv and law enforcement actively collaborating to produce Must See TV. I suspect there's not a big difference between a 40 year old volunteer pretending to be a horny 13 year old, and a 40 year old guy pretending to be a 19 year old who is hitting on the horny 13 year old who is really 40 years old. I find it troubling that men are convicted of what they're fantasizing about, rather than what they actually do. Still, I have no problem with law enforcement using stings to catch online predators. I wish more law enforcement agencies would do it.

Chris Hansen isn't law enforcement. His career was built on titillating audiences while tsk tsking his own sordid stock and trade. A lot of drama in To Catch a Predator is of the He-Should-Know-Better variety, and so it's kinda fun to just assume he's guilty because that's how he looks on video.