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B.C. Teens Dress Up As Batman to Nab Predators

  • First Posted: Nov 16 2011 08:04 AM
  • Updated: 1 minute ago

... and for your viewing pleasure (and the Mounties' frustration) they put it all online for you to see.

Three teenagers from B.C. are in a bit of hot water after posing as underage girls online, luring men with the promise of sex, then dressing up as Batman and busting the would-be predators – and capturing it all on film. The boys – two 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old, have posted the series of videos, named "To Troll a Predator", to YouTube, where they've attracted the attention of the RCMP, who aren't exactly impressed with the caped crusaders. There are four videos in total, all of which feature the young men taking screenshots of chats with the older men before cutting to Batman meeting the subject and confronting him. The videos had been pulled from the site, but two were back up as of yesterday. Feel free to watch, but they're a tad NSFW. Anyhow, we suppose it's somewhat of a positive that these teenagers are using their spare time to (sort of) fight crime instead of causing it, even if there are myriad privacy issues stemming from the whole endeavor.

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