It'd be nice if there was always a stranger to come tip us off when we're making a terrible mistake. It sounds like the sh*t really hit the fan when this mom and pop learned that the man whom they'd trusted enough to give a key to their house, was a sex offender fixated on their son.
BTW, Oprah's now offering bounties on at-large predators. $100K a pop. This is a bit more useful than sulking about not being let into the Hermes store after hours.
Posted by floridacracker at October 13, 2005 07:15 PMI may be the only person in the world who opines as this, but to my view, the reward SHOULD BE that sex offendors are identified, captured and put behind bars for the rest of thier lives.
The financial reward thing by Oprah seems like her trying to pay for more publicity, given her slipping image (as it should be) for the publicity tour -- err, strike that -- arrival with three truckloads of goods in New Orleans. With crew. And cameras. Three truckloads full...THREE. Whadyaknow.
I think Oprah's incentives here are just too conflicted so she goes, *hey* this'll do it, and despite the fact that she's helping a very worthy cause (nabbing sex offenders, bringing them in), she's encouraging this good act by all the wrong means.
Doesn't speak well of her audience, by the way.
Posted by: -S- at October 18, 2005 12:58 AM