I saw Dateline’s To Catch a Predator IV (torrent here) yesterday. It wasn’t as hilarious as I thought it would be.

Predators scouring the Internet, targeting children for sex: It’s a national problem that Dateline has helped uncover.

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More than 20 Perverted-Justice members are in Ohio and surrounding area chat rooms posing as 12-to-15-year-olds. They’ve set up profiles using pictures of young teens, and posted personal information like age, sex and location. Some of the profiles are on social networking Web sites like MySpace and Teenspot. The decoys from Perverted-Justice are waiting to be instant messaged by a potential predator.

In a matter of seconds, men start hitting on the decoys. One man, screenname “greeneyed121,” even goes so far as to suggest phone sex. He found our 13 year old decoy, “katiedidsings” on MySpace.com.

What the hell are these people thinking? What is their contingency plan? They go to some kid’s house, bring alcohol and hope for some fun in the sack. Then what? Leave and hope that the kid never mentions it to anyone? What a brilliant plan.

Honestly, what kid would invite a complete stranger into his/her house? On a sex date nevertheless. Those who took the bait deserves to be put behind bars because of their stupidity alone.

What is the thing with Mike’s Hard Lemonade and pedophiles? Every freakin’ pedo brought Mike’s Hard Lemonade!

Since I’m too lazy to make a post regarding the poll of the week, I figured I’d make it easy for me and make a poll loosely based on this. Is it ok for a 20-year-old to date a 15-year-old? Of course assuming the 20-year-old’s intent isn’t only to solicit sex with a minor.