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2 more scumbags caught up in Drogheda last night ,another nonce in Kildare caught last month. 

What are peoples opinions on these Pedophile hunter groups? Personally i think they are great, even if the coonts get lenient sentences their faces have been plastered all over social media and chat transcripts published so jail is probably the safest place for them as well as their lives being as good as over!

I do feel very sorry for their families however, they're victims in all this too.

Frightening how much this is going on 

Some weirdos on it, some not too far away from where I live. Wide ranging age groups from fellas in their 20s to aul boys in their 70s and 80s. Hard enough viewing at times

 Get Phil Collins on the scene 

Not gonna have much sympathy for some perv that gets caught and exposed for trying to get his wicked way with a 13 year old. 

Vigilantism is never justice. 

My bet is that a lot of the weirdos who operate these groups are secret paedophiles themselves.

Clearly they spend a hell of a lot of their own free time surfing wherever they surf to organise child sex meetings.

Fair play to them. Don't see anything wrong with it. It discourages sicko's like your man not to do what they do.

There is something very sinister about it alright, maybe their intentions are altruistic and they really are thinking of the children, but I can't help but think there is more to it. I'm not sure if it is a way to cover up their own conscience, but I find it very odd.

Yeah, that is curious...

You'd nearly think that some of them had an ulterior motive...

So it's not about justice, it's about destroying people:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/24/paedophile-hunters-jeopardising-police-work-child-protection" rel="nofollow - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/24/paedophile-hunters-jeopardising-police-work-child-protection
 

You'd want to have a mental age of about eight to think these sort of groups are a good thing.

Anybody else thinking of this?

Had to watch it again. Mad to think that it is 16 years old.

If these groups do this stuff then simply inform the police then fair enough, its when they plaster faces on the internet that its an issue. All it takes is one false accusation for some poor feckers life to get ruined.

Love that episode 

One of the funniest things about it was that most people didn't get it. 

And most people now probably still don't. 

Total genius.

Tomorrow, my posts on this forum will be made up exclusively of quotes from that show.

Not today, and not even tomorrow, but maybe the day after that.

They should have been left quadrospazzed on a life-glug.

 

FFS, literally no words to describe idiots of this nature

The upside of that incident was that it inspired that  'Paedogeddon' special of Brass Eye. Anybody who can't see the implications of these actions being carried out by a group of people whose motives are questionable at best, really needs to put the S*n down for a few days.

I swing a mean sack of doorknobs. 

And as for your grandma, well she shouldn't have started mouthing off like that 

 

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/watch-psni-reviewing-footage-after-ugly-scenes-in-belfast-as-bbc-ni-man-tries-to-interview-paedophile-hunters-36576541.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/watch-psni-reviewing-footage-after-ugly-scenes-in-belfast-as-bbc-ni-man-tries-to-interview-paedophile-hunters-36576541.html

 

 

Of course they do good work on occasion in outing paedos, but the whole trial by social media thing is wrong IMO.

They have been known to get it wrong and confront, video and shame totally innocent people in cases of mistaken identity. They've also done the same to people who when its been taken to court its been proven that once they found out the decoy was underage they stopped all communication, and they've also been known to confront people with learning difficulties.

There's also the issue of the families of these alleged paedos and how they are then treated by the community.

 

 

 

The police man on Nolan last night seemed to suggest that theres a reason as to why there are so few convictions of the cases that make it to court. In other words, a lot of people who are not guilty are being targeted.

 

 

Saw one of these videos taken locally last week, and the target was fairly clearly not of sound mind and  to listen to him, you would imagine he had learning or intellectual difficulties. Like you said, if they have the evidence, present it to the Gardai and let the law enforcers do their job, putting it on social media is more about themselves than any child protection issue. 

 

They're certainly coming across as weirdos with anger issues in the publicity they're getting in the north at the minute.

BBC NI are doing a report on them tonight on Newsline.

 

 

Bogball - just read about the Nolan interview on twitter there. I hear it was car crash stuff.

So the vigilante sets up a fake facebook profile with a photos of a 13/14 year old boy or girl, do the paedos then add them as friends? or do the vigilantes seek out men who look a bit creepy and add them? 

 

For all the size of the north of Ireland, and with the publicity and number of these vigilante groups there are around at the minute, these paedos really are gullible. Do they really think they're on their way to meet up with a 14 year old boy in McDonalds car park or whatever? At no point do they think to themselves before they send a photo of their cocks - hold on, this could be one of those vigilante groups set up as a fake profile.

That is pretty unsurprising, they usually have a link to some sort of right-wing lunacy.

In saying that, the Protestants may be up to no good,but nobody beats the Catholic Church when it comes to paedophilia. I think they got to keep the trophy.

Yes World and European Champions multiple times.

You really have to admire their consistency.

Putting the Borgias to shame.

Was that the one in McDonalds in Navan ?

 

I spotted it straight away that he had Aspergers and later when he calmed down and sat down, he admitted this.

I think they have been taking corrective measures over the last few years according to this factually correct article. 

https://www.theonion.com/pope-vows-to-get-church-pedophilia-down-to-acceptable-l-1819571429" rel="nofollow - https://www.theonion.com/pope-vows-to-get-church-pedophilia-down-to-acceptable-l-1819571429

 

The type of domination Sir Alex (the manager, not the poster) could appreciate.

He said his aim was to destroy these peoples lives, when asked about mistaken identity he didn't care and one of the people he caught killed themselves a few days afterwards, he blamed the police.

 

I'd almost be on the side of the paedo rather than that c**t

 

 

The big fat ginger one who targeted the BBC man is a WWE fanatic who for some reason puts on a transatlantic accent despite living in West Belfast.

 

That's the sort of clown's we are dealing with here. As many have said, I wouldn't like to see what's on some of their own hard-drives

 

 

This is a growing and worrying trend. I am fully supportive of vigilante groups going after c***s like this.

 

 +1

I wouldn't be averse to the odd kneecapping for that sort of behaviour.

 

 

How does it all happen? So they set up a profile on facebook of a 14 year old girl for example, with fake photos. A man is sitting minding his own business and gets a friend request? Or does the man with paedo tendencies go out and seek these young girls and add them?

And then the chatting begins and they arrange to meet.

 

 

Seems to be they actively go after people they suspect or in a few cases, people with mental issues they think are a bit 'off'

Probably a factor in why none of this stuff stands a chance of ending up in a courtroom

Its probably fair to say that some (or most) of those that they target would probably never offend at all if they weren't messaged by a fake account with fake photos claiming to be a young girl or boy

 

 

 

And the Darwin award nominees are.......

18 months behind bars , the real sentence will start when he is released, this coonts life is over 

Really?It certainly used to seem to be almost impossible to get sacked as a teacher etc.Hopefully things are changing.