Happy Valentines Day!
After a good eleven day stretch, I finally have a day off. But, I don't mind all the work because it's been a blast. The best TV news station in town teamed-up with the so-called "vigilante" website, Perverted Justice to net guys interested in hooking-up with thirteen year-old girls.
Basically, they hit up a girl in a Yahoo! or AOL chat room and started with all the kissy-talk. Of course, in our case they weren't 13 year-olds, but PJ volunteers - and they made sure to let the guys know right away that they were jailbait. For the most part, the guys didn't seem to mind and thought it'd be a good idea to come over in person. That's where I came in.
For my part, I wired a house with survellience cameras, monitors, and laptop computers, and then waited behind the front door for the gentlemen to show [video link]. When they rang the bell, our reporter and a PJ staffer answered the door - with my bright camera light, and started asking them the hard questions [video link]. One of them turned out to be a reserve deputy, who later apologized - his wife, citing the internet (and films like Titanic) as a tool of the devil.
On a personal note:
I can't even tell you how surreal it was to see all these different guys show up, and then watching them just make up excuses like "I'm lost, and am just knocked on this door to get directions." or "I must be at the wrong house." But, they never knew what they were looking for or who they were going to meet. I kinda respected the guys who just turned and ran, at least they knew that they were in hot water, and got the hell out of there. One guy abandoned his car and took off, and three hours later (after hiding in the bushes or something) he finally came back for it. We even had one guy who saw the pizza delivery guy come to our place, was questioned by the cops, and heard that "a channel 12 news crew was in the area doing some kind of sting", but still came to the door anyway - and later said that he thought "she was 15 or 16!" - like that was any better, or more legal.
If you live in Portland, or like to watch news story over the internet check out the rest of our coverage on FOX 12 next week. And stay out of the chat rooms, will ya?
After a good eleven day stretch, I finally have a day off. But, I don't mind all the work because it's been a blast. The best TV news station in town teamed-up with the so-called "vigilante" website, Perverted Justice to net guys interested in hooking-up with thirteen year-old girls.
Basically, they hit up a girl in a Yahoo! or AOL chat room and started with all the kissy-talk. Of course, in our case they weren't 13 year-olds, but PJ volunteers - and they made sure to let the guys know right away that they were jailbait. For the most part, the guys didn't seem to mind and thought it'd be a good idea to come over in person. That's where I came in.
For my part, I wired a house with survellience cameras, monitors, and laptop computers, and then waited behind the front door for the gentlemen to show [video link]. When they rang the bell, our reporter and a PJ staffer answered the door - with my bright camera light, and started asking them the hard questions [video link]. One of them turned out to be a reserve deputy, who later apologized - his wife, citing the internet (and films like Titanic) as a tool of the devil.
On a personal note:
I can't even tell you how surreal it was to see all these different guys show up, and then watching them just make up excuses like "I'm lost, and am just knocked on this door to get directions." or "I must be at the wrong house." But, they never knew what they were looking for or who they were going to meet. I kinda respected the guys who just turned and ran, at least they knew that they were in hot water, and got the hell out of there. One guy abandoned his car and took off, and three hours later (after hiding in the bushes or something) he finally came back for it. We even had one guy who saw the pizza delivery guy come to our place, was questioned by the cops, and heard that "a channel 12 news crew was in the area doing some kind of sting", but still came to the door anyway - and later said that he thought "she was 15 or 16!" - like that was any better, or more legal.
If you live in Portland, or like to watch news story over the internet check out the rest of our coverage on FOX 12 next week. And stay out of the chat rooms, will ya?
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