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( , Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:18, archived)

watched a DICKFART repeat of the South Park Tourette's episode last night, I think one of my SHITBALLS favourites

where someone pretended to be a young girl/boy and meet up with a paedophile,
the paedophile would come round, then that ^ man would come in and tell them
what had happened, which was funny funny funny, and then they'd get arrested usually.
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Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:24,
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the paedophile would come round, then that ^ man would come in and tell them
what had happened, which was funny funny funny, and then they'd get arrested usually.

What are they like eh?
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Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:34,
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so it's 'attempted'.
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Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:35,
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For instance if you steal something but then the person says they have given it to you or that it was in fact one of your own possessions you somehow implausibly stole, you don't then get arrested for 'attempted' theft. Attempted crimes are in failing to commit the actual crime, not having no crime to begin with BECAUSE IT WASN'T A CHILD!
Otherwise that would mean if someone tells you they are 15, but are actually 16, then when you have sex with them you've broken the law. Which is just stupid.
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Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:44,
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Otherwise that would mean if someone tells you they are 15, but are actually 16, then when you have sex with them you've broken the law. Which is just stupid.

I mean then you don't really have the intent, or the conscious commital of a crime.
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Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:49,
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by which i mean, that's why it's a tv show, not court papers
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Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:50,
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up until one moment...
The show I saw... Just before he is busted, the perp hands over alcohol (some beers) that the 'victim' has requested.
Then it's giving alcohol to minors =$4000 fine and year in jail. Which instantly makes entrapment a very difficult call.
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Fri 29 Aug 2008, 0:30,
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The show I saw... Just before he is busted, the perp hands over alcohol (some beers) that the 'victim' has requested.
Then it's giving alcohol to minors =$4000 fine and year in jail. Which instantly makes entrapment a very difficult call.

they may have done.
heard a case of a former police chief who got stung in a similar manner (but by a police force)and the charge they got him on was crossing state lines to have sex with a minor (the "girl" involved was 5, and in conversations with the "mother" the bloke claimed to have experience with children that young) he topped himself before the case went to court
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Thu 28 Aug 2008, 22:36,
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heard a case of a former police chief who got stung in a similar manner (but by a police force)and the charge they got him on was crossing state lines to have sex with a minor (the "girl" involved was 5, and in conversations with the "mother" the bloke claimed to have experience with children that young) he topped himself before the case went to court

Its still on FX on wednesdays
its brill, its quite satisfying to watch a paedo get tasered
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Fri 29 Aug 2008, 14:11,
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its brill, its quite satisfying to watch a paedo get tasered