Alleged Pimp Asks Dateline's Chris Hansen For An Autograph
It appears that enough time has passed since the the Dateline: To Catch A Predator series, with its whiff of entrapment and suicide scandals, for its host Chris Hansen to come back with another Dateline hidden camera series, Vegas: Undercover, which premieres tonight. One of the amusing parts of To Catch A Predator that distracted us from the sad gross parts was how, especially toward the end of the series, many alleged predators, when caught, would recognize Chris Hansen and be almost starstruck by him, saying things like "I knew it! I knew it!" as if Hansen were Candid Camera's host Alan Funt (yep, ask me about my grandbabies) and not the harbinger of the official and total ruining of their lives forever. Anyway, in this clip from tonight's show, a man arrested for pimping recognizes Chris ("Was she seventeen or something?") and then can't resist getting an autograph from the #1 person in the world associated with the capturing of child molesters. Americans are THIS obsessed with fame.
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If that guy is guilty, he should totally put Chris Hansen's autograph up in his cell and see what happens!
Posted by Lindsay at 4:15 PM in Newsmagazines
Tags: Chris Hansen | Dateline | Vegas: Undercover
Now we need a commenter named "Alleged Pimp."
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What did I miss?
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9 out of 10 alleged pimps agree, To Catch a Predator is an invaluable public service. Keep up the good work, Chris Hansen!
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In a way I envy the total lack of self-consciousness this alleged pimp is displaying.
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"You think I'd let her solicit someone while I's standin' there?!?!?"
Bought time we had a (alleged) pimp with some business sense.
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*'Bout...Whoops...
Chris Hansen is also so classy, the way he tells him he would shake his hand...but, just realized, you are in handcuffs. Silly me...
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I hate chris hansen. i think he is the most smug, self-satisfied guy. i cant watch any of those shows. i would rather hang out with any one of htose "predators' for an evening this spend it with chris.
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I watched one To Catch a Predator where the Predator was such a sad-sack sort of fellah, that he basically resigned himself to his downfall right then and there, and spent the rest of the interview being chill. Even shared a fistpound with Mr. Hansen.
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I watched one To Catch A Predator, where Chris Hansen basically walks in and confronts the guy but then as Hansen goes over the chat transcripts, they get to talking and find out a lot about one another so that by the end of the episode they've become really good friends. It was a two-parter though. In the second episode they both agreed that since the one guy was going away for awhile and that he had only a few days left of freedom, that they should both rent a car together and see America the way god made it before he loses the chance forever.
It's a pretty touching story about friendship and the triumph of the human spirit. The final moments of the episode are especially heart-warming. As the pedophile runs into a field while a huge storm crashes around him, a lightning bolt strikes him in mid-run. But he doesn't die. Rather his body is released like energy.... back into the world, as Chris Hansen looks on with tears in his eyes.
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I love how he's simultaneously pronouncing that he's not a pimp and handing out pimping-related advice. Not so good for his case.
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Still though, guy is really collected. Like, I know folks that blow up when they get a parking ticket. So basically what I'm saying is that in my legal system if you were cool enough about being arrested you would get a firm shake and then CH would say "Dude, ya better cut it out!"
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Oh, right, and then you wouldn't get arrested. That was an important bit of my 'thing' that I left out and now I'm adding it but you're all probably fed up already because double posting ruins lives!!
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RIP Chappelle's Show. I can only imagine.
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nice shirt, alleged pimp.
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I live in Vegas, and that was shot just a few miles from my house! I swear I got Panera Bread in that same strip mall for lunch today.
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I watched this and now I know how to print money. Thanks NBC!
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