Pedo Hunter in Area

He sounds like an idiot. He's just warned any paedophiles around to keep their heads down till he gets bored and buggers off.

Yeah it is like the thugs shouting about protecting their women and kids whilst they regularly punch their women in front of their kids

What area are you in? I remember seeing a FB post about this type of group that was either in the area I grew up or where extended family live. They were trying to legitimise themselves but the crux of it was “protect our wimmin from forriners”

They advertise to drum up "support" the next step they will drop a street or maybe a name to build up momentum and hopefully a mob, nobody wants sex offenders in their street, but these "hunters" are vigilantes and in it for the glory, block them don't give them views it is their oxygen.

I often think with these vigilantes there’s some kind of compensating going on. Just my personal opinion but I do think sometimes those who shout loudest are those with something to hide.

Exactly. The way the treat those with obvious learning disabilities should be a crime in itself. You can see how excited and gleeful they are to do a sting, it’s sickening.

I don’t know how conning someone with clear learning difficulties into meeting up with a “teenager” just so you can film it and put it on social media is keeping anyone safe.

I don’t want peados on my streets either

I certainly wouldn’t feel safe walking past them at night.

And I think some of them probably need their hard drives looking at.

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Worked with people who had to be moved at HUGE tax payer expense…people with learning disabilities who had a bit of online access and were talking to people at their mental development age and didn’t have any harm in them at all..cornered and filmed in shopping centres. These groups are despicable and nasty bullies who don’t care about the safety of women and girls at all..they take a perverse delight in the attack

I agree with you @XenoBitchabout no need to make it public...

but unfortunately these folk make money from YouTube and monetising their channel to earn from views.

So they have a vested interest in making it public, and sometimes don't even care how it affects the court cases.

The money they get? Well it's not enormous riches, but I am sure it all becomes very addictive / appealing to get all the likes and comments.

Perhaps the first few cases are bonafide busts of individuals who deserved being outed. But the minute the views start to go down on the channel, you have to feed the beast to get the likes, clicks and revenue.

Hence the announcement style "here I am in X place hunting out new wronguns", it just serves to drive viewership because you're creating urgency and demand to view.

This is not about protecting children it’s about enjoying being intimating and their who’s

they don’t pass on evidence to the police quietly

Exactly glory hunting twats also grifters trying to make a bit of money through merch.

Why don't they just take the evidence to police? Well where's the glory in that!

Pathetic.

What these cretins do actually hinders a lot of actual police work and can even prevent a prosecution as it can be seen as entrapment. They aren’t the knights in shining armour some people believe them to be, it’s all for their own egos. Likely because they’ve never achieved anything else in life.

Give over. This is one area of policing that they are really hot on.

I never understand why the police and the courts get the blame for people committing crime. Maybe people could just be decent, law abiding people instead

I suspect they mean well and can no doubt do some positive things. However, I’m a little uncomfortable with the whole confront and film aspect of this; I just think law enforcement should be done by the police. By all means assist but leave the confronting to them.

They are glory hunting twats. And often they are very, very uneducated. They do it for the likes and adoration of other thick people on social media. They don’t care about the fallout for the family of the people they ‘sting’ - often innocent kids who have to go to school the next day knowing their dad/brother/uncle has been outed on FB for being a pedo. People have had their houses targeted with other family members inside. People have been wrongly accused. They don’t care. Some even get merch made - how is that about protecting kids? It’s all about their own ego.

They are a disgrace and given the nature of what they do, I often wonder if some of them aren’t wired up quite right either. Pretty sure there was a case where it was found that one of the hunters was actually a pedo himself.

Honestly they should just leave it to the police. If they must do it then submit the evidence and let the police deal with it. Don’t do all this vigilante bullshit, it’s completely unethical.

I don't like them and I don't agree with them. If they really cared what they were doing they wouldn't be doing it for likes and notoriety. Those who do hand over to police have already ruined any half decent chance of prosecution, evidence is poor or has been lost/destroyed. Yes they have also plastered people all over the internet and got it wrong. They have also adverted their home address so families get targeted as well.

I don't understand the urge to post it all online either.
Send proof to the cops. No need for making it all public.

I’m sure some of them do good work but I feel very bad for the families of the caught nonces. A boy in DH’s year at school’s dad got exposed (rightful, he was a pedophile and ended up jailed) but he had to move schools. The whole family had to relocate. These things should be dealt with by professionals in my opinion, but so many get away with it I can’t say I don’t understand the urge to go vigilante.

Sounds a bit like the Witchfinder General. IMO

Some one on my FB kept posting various videos of "stings" for a while.
Some people caught had very obvious and profound learning disabilities, but the hunters (and people commenting) still seemed to think they were the scum of the earth and needed lynching.

Izzy is great. Always enjoyed seeing her calmly take paedos apart.

Thank you! I didn't realise it was a female.