TV That Pushes People To Kill Themselves

'The series' "To Catch a Predator" team had allegedly caught Mr. Conradt making online advances to a decoy who pretended to be a 13-year-old boy. When the police and TV crew stormed Mr. Conradt's home, he took out a handgun and shot himself to death.'

Dead kidmeeper. No big loss.

Well, did he actually meep the kid? Or just talk about it? Big difference.

In fact, it's the difference between you having a tiny bruise above your kidney, and you having to actually launder your shirt.

The show lures people into engaging in loathsome activities. It then teams up with the police to stage a humiliating, televised arrest, while the accused still has the presumption of innocence.

When some 40 year old guy shows up at a 15 year old girls house and then gets undressed in her kitchen while she is supposedly in the other room changing... the presumption of innocence is lost.

boo meeping hoo. it's really simple, if they don't want to be humiliated, they shouldn't put them selfs in those positions. this applies for both the kid meepers and morons on game shows.

i'm sure these pedos have the thought of capture running through their mind on the ride over, and yet, they still take the chance and the drive. same goes for game show contestants. for $500k, do they really believe that there won't be difficult questions that might cause repercussions?

with it's continued success, i would like to think that dateline has prevented a large number of pedos from following through with in-person meetings, if only for the fear of meeting an NBC camera crew and some po-po.

Maybe you guys didn't read:

'When Mr. Conradt did not show up at the "sting house" - the usual "To Catch a Predator" format - producers allegedly asked police as a "favor" to storm his home.'

It's obvious that they stepped over their bounds. The guy never showed up at the sting house. Maybe at the last second he realized the wrong in what he was doing and decided to not go through with his previous decision. Instead of continuing his life with this decision, he had SWAT storm his home with video cameras everywhere.

Yeah, it's meeped up, and I hope they get sued badly.

yeah, because the cops do what TV show people say... I bet they had some proof in order to storm his house..dontshathink?

yeah, because the cops do what TV show people say... I bet they had some proof in order to storm his house..dontshathink?

i think that, if anything, linkswarm provides links to enough articles that you can doubt the veracity of the claims of the police department.

i think that to catch a predator walks a thin line where they constantly verge on entrapping people. fortunately for them, they entrap people that the majority would like to see tortured, so they mostly get away with it.

think that, if anything, linkswarm provides links to enough articles that you can doubt the veracity of the claims of the police department.

as usual, you bring up a valid point, but I have seen this show a few times and they only film people after they have spent considerable time with them on the internet...They aren't going to waste time and money. The people they feature are showing up for under age meep...plain and simple. If you show up for and arranged meeting with what you think is a minor to have meep... how is that entrapment? If you meet said under age person and then get undressed in her kitchen in anticipation of getting some 14 year old meep... how is it entrapment?

i agree 100% that when they enter the house, that it's despicable and disgusting. the guy who killed himself did no such thing. now, transmitting meep pics to a minor is a crime, so for all we know, he did that and they came to arrest him. but i wouldn't be sure of that. it seems just as likely they decided they wanted to confront one of these sickos on his turf -- for ratings -- and it backfired, big time.

as to how it seems like entrapment, some of the chats that i've seen on the show involve the 'bait' encouraging the pedo to come visit. i've also seen one where the guy explicitly says, 'r u a cop, from dat show???' of course with entrapment, a cop has to admit if they are when asked, but in this case, they skirt that by employing non-police.

i mean, what if these civilians were selling coke at the behest of the police, slightly egging on the buyers, and then not revealing that they have anything to do with the police when asked? i know it's not quite the same thing, because EVERYONE hates pedophiles, but i think that it's a thin line between 'catching' and 'entrapping,' one that they step over every now and again.

i might add that when they have little updates, not every person 'caught' is convicted of a crime.

Entrapment is breaking a law at the behest of the enforcing athority. If you are doing what you would do anyway and are egged on, well wtf do you expect to happen. There is no fine line here. Any adult that asks a 14 year old for meep should shoot themselves.

Entrapment is breaking a law at the behest of the enforcing athority. If you are doing what you would do anyway and are egged on, well wtf do you expect to happen.

read that again. where do you draw the line between 'at the behest of the enforcing authority' and 'egging on'? i think that's exactly what my only complaint is.

Any adult that asks a 14 year old for meep should shoot themselves.

i agree with that

I'd love to see an episode of this show where the guy just starts screaming at the girl about how dangerous and stupid it is to invite unknown guys over for meep. You think they'd air it - or even let him get a word out?