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djssniper
Jan 10, 2003


Splicer posted:

When I'm perving, well I know I'm gonna be,
I'm gonna be the man who's perving after you

There's lots of mileage left in that gag

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ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


A couple digging a grave for their baby found another infant buried alive

:wtc:

The MSJ
May 17, 2010


That's one efficient exchange counter.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

djssniper posted:

There's lots of mileage left in that gag
149 or 649 depending on how you count them

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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The MSJ posted:

That's one efficient exchange counter.

:drat: :lol:

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Splicer posted:

149 or 649 depending on how you count them

you make the other 149, and I will make 500 more

Ornamental Dingbat
Feb 26, 2007


quote:

“We are looking for her parents, and it is possible that they are involved in it,”

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004


Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019


I would watch this show.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014


I read the article and it’s a little creepy. Apparently he was already a sex offender and the cops sent him a Facebook friend request as the 14 year old girl. This means either the cops are sending friend requests on fake profiles to random people to see what crimes they commit, or they’re trying to bait sex offenders into reoffending.

cinni
Oct 17, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

And that baby's name was Tara Cotta. I think by law of finders keepers, they must contractually raise this new zombaby. Life is funny sometimes, you win some you lose some.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

chitoryu12 posted:

I read the article and it’s a little creepy. Apparently he was already a sex offender and the cops sent him a Facebook friend request as the 14 year old girl. This means either the cops are sending friend requests on fake profiles to random people to see what crimes they commit, or they’re trying to bait sex offenders into reoffending.

I'm not super strong on cops baiting people but if you can be baited into wanting to walk 351 miles to gently caress a child then maybe the cops didn't gently caress this one up.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

chitoryu12 posted:

I read the article and it’s a little creepy. Apparently he was already a sex offender and the cops sent him a Facebook friend request as the 14 year old girl. This means either the cops are sending friend requests on fake profiles to random people to see what crimes they commit, or they’re trying to bait sex offenders into reoffending.

It’s just a sting operation.

If it crosses the line into entrapment, that would be bad, but the bar from entrapment is quite high.

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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I may be incorrect, but I think "entrapment" is when they put you in a situation where you basically have no choice or are tricked into breaking the law. So pulling over people leaving a bar and testing them for DUI isn't really entrapment, but locking someone in a room and demanding they give you $20 and you hand them some weed is.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

Solice Kirsk posted:

I may be incorrect, but I think "entrapment" is when they put you in a situation where you basically have no choice or are tricked into breaking the law. So pulling over people leaving a bar and testing them for DUI isn't really entrapment, but locking someone in a room and demanding they give you $20 and you hand them some weed is.

It’s not quite that limited.

The case that “resurrected” entrapment happened to involve a pedophile.

The Postal Inspectors went much further than sending him a friend request. IIRC they actually sent him what amounts to softcore child pornography, but Wikipedia’s summary only describes the text of the “advertisements”.

quote:

Included was a questionnaire attempting to gauge the respondent's interest in various paraphilias, including pedophilia and ephebophilia. Jacobson indicated an "above average" interest in the latter, especially between males, but also stated he was opposed to the former. The USPS decided he was not a promising target and left him alone [for a time].

Well we know he owned a thesaurus.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Platystemon posted:

It’s just a sting operation.

If it crosses the line into entrapment, that would be bad, but the bar from entrapment is quite high.

It might not legally be entrapment, but don’t we have something better to do than keep baiting released felons to pad our arrest record?

slinkimalinki
Jan 17, 2010

chitoryu12 posted:

It might not legally be entrapment, but don’t we have something better to do than keep baiting released felons to pad our arrest record?

Yeah, generally shooting black people who are just living their lives in their own homes.

I mean, it would be nice if the police were doing better things but it's usually worse things.

AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope

These Gordon Ramsay shows are getting really intense

Clone Farmer
Aug 28, 2006

Oh my god, of course I would never cook my pets.

I own a 6 pound dog and two zebra finches, none of them even have any meat *to* cook.

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
My pets are long dead and gone, so...

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



[climbing into oven] Mine too, sooo...

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


*grabbing alley cats left and right*
You'll be my pet, and you, and you, and you!

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

chitoryu12 posted:

It might not legally be entrapment, but don’t we have something better to do than keep baiting released felons to pad our arrest record?

There is so much recidivism among child sexual abusers that a sting might well spare actual children. (I’m always going to be biased on this one, as someone who was assaulted by a multiple offender, so I might not be the best person to evaluate this story.)

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

slinkimalinki posted:

Yeah, generally shooting black people who are just living their lives in their own homes.

I mean, it would be nice if the police were doing better things but it's usually worse things.

Don't forget setting up elaborate schemes with shady "informants" to entrap Muslim immigrants who barely understand what the conspiracy they're "involved" in is about because most of it is made up, then charging them for the whole thing.

Nottherealaborn
Nov 12, 2012
I have a couple really young cousins (12, 13) who are currently going through a stage of trying to act much older and one got a 19 year old boyfriend (yikes) through Facebook.

The fact is, actual young girls sometimes add random people on Facebook and can be tricked into being in a “relationship” with some weirdos. So I’m fully supportive of police stings through Facebook, as long as they don’t continually pester someone into acting out when they otherwise wouldn’t have done anything.

ZombieLenin
Sep 6, 2009

"Democracy for the insignificant minority, democracy for the rich--that is the democracy of capitalist society." VI Lenin


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chitoryu12 posted:

I read the article and it’s a little creepy. Apparently he was already a sex offender and the cops sent him a Facebook friend request as the 14 year old girl. This means either the cops are sending friend requests on fake profiles to random people to see what crimes they commit, or they’re trying to bait sex offenders into reoffending.

Which seems to me to be entrapment. Maybe it passes legal muster, and I have no real sympathy for a 30 something dude walking 300 miles to have sex with a 14 year old, but it sure feels dirty that the police friend requested him.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

ZombieLenin posted:

Which seems to me to be entrapment. Maybe it passes legal muster, and I have no real sympathy for a 30 something dude walking 300 miles to have sex with a 14 year old, but it sure feels dirty that the police friend requested him.

A friend request on Facebook to a known predator from a profile claiming to be a 14 year old is about as entrapment-y as sending a plainclothes cop door to door asking if anyone wants to buy meth. Like it's a little pushy and weird, but if that's all it takes, I don't have much sympathy.

What I'm really curious about is if they did this because they saw his Facebook profile showed he was already friends with a bunch of kids. There was an episode of the Small Town Dicks podcast about a guy who did something similar, and apparently he would spam out Facebook friend requests to literally thousands of kids, knowing that only some will accept and of those that accept only some will talk with him and of those only some will be vulnerable to his ... predation.

In that case, a mother pretended to be her daughter after the guy randomly friended the daughter and basically gift wrapped a conviction for the cops, but if they saw he was friending kids, I have zero problem with what they did.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Azathoth posted:

What I'm really curious about is if they did this because they saw his Facebook profile showed he was already friends with a bunch of kids.
Yeah this or something like it was the third option I was wondering about.

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/thank-god-floyd-the-big-dog-was-rescued

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

It looks like I'm going to be a feature at the Paris zoo.

Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes

Randaconda
Jul 3, 2014

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Just a slime mold, isn't it?

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Randaconda posted:

Just a slime mold, isn't it?

What are slime molds tho? We just don't know.

AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope
https://twitter.com/ktivnews/status/1184562161345011715?s=20

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




So many cool potential apocalypses lately and yet we're stuck with slow, boring climate change :sigh:

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

Inceltown posted:

It looks like I'm going to be a feature at the Paris zoo.

Paris zoo unveils the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes

"the "blob", an organism with no brain but 720 sexes"

I thought that this was the new title for Reddit

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Captain Hygiene posted:

So many cool potential apocalypses lately and yet we're stuck with slow, boring climate change :sigh:

i'm holding out hope for some kind of runaway fungal spore catastrophe once we get the earth hot enough. i'm gonna be pissed if i gotta live through this poo poo

mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."
https://twitter.com/MirrorTech/status/1184468008175067136?s=19

Double Punctuation
Dec 30, 2009

Ships were made for sinking;
Whiskey made for drinking;
If we were made of cellophane
We'd all get stinking drunk much faster!

It’s not like stuff like this could possibly cause any harm, like, say, loving Germany up for four and a half centuries. It would never happen.

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

what if prayer, but blockchain?

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Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


Grieving Parents ‘Ambushed’ by Trump, Who Had Teen’s Killer Waiting at White House

quote:

The president had hoped to surprise the family of dead British teen Harry Dunn with a meeting with the woman who killed him. “And they weren’t ready for it,” he admitted.

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