Chris Hansen recalled in his 2007 book “To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home” that “To Catch a Predator” almost started with a disaster as the very first predator nearly beat the host to the sting house. Stuck in traffic in Bethpage, Long Island, in February 2004, Hansen recalled receiving a call from his producer and being told the suspect was on the way to the house.
“If the predators got there before I did, it could sabotage the whole operation,” he wrote. Luckily, Hansen ended up beating the target to the house by 45 minutes.
Hansen revealed while recalling the same story that he was concerned that no one would actually arrive at the sting house and the whole operation would be a bust. What ended up actually happening was Hansen confronted more than a dozen targets in the sting house, throwing their own predatory messages back at them in a signature style that would give the internet endless content for memes.
“Once they started coming, they never stopped. Over the course of the next two and a half days, seventeen men arrived to meet with one of our decoys — who’d posed as underage girls and boys,” Hansen wrote.
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