Child Predator Sting Ops Cross to Pop-Culture
This is actually a lighter post on the issue and worth a giggle…
I was watching Reno 911! Last night (one of my favorite shows) and there was a scene where the Deputy Travis Junior character (played by writer/director/creator Ben Garant) is online posing as a young girl, waiting for predators to strike up a conversation. He’s a one-man Internet predator sting op. Eventually, someone does approach Junior online and he starts chatting with him. Throughout the sketch, Junior explains certain IM lingo and how the Sheriff’s Dept. tries to catch predators.
Junior chats for a while and eventually asks the person at the other end of the line where he is and what his name is. He recognizes the name given, stands up, looks through a window partition, draws his gun and starts yelling at his Sheriff’s Dept. co-worker, telling him to stop typing and put his hands up.
Thus ending the sketch on a hysterical note…
After I was done laughing I thought about what a heavy and important topic this is. It is on everyone’s radar so much so that comedy shows are working the issue of scumbag Internet predators into their episodes. Pretty sweet.
Did anyone else see the episode? Props to you, Garant!
