Alleged Pimp Asks Dateline‘s Chris Hansen For An Autograph

It appears that enough time has passed since the the Dateline: To Catch A Predator series, with its whiff of entrapment and suicide scandals, for its host Chris Hansen to come back with another Dateline hidden camera series, Vegas: Undercover, which premieres tonight. One of the amusing parts of To Catch A Predator that distracted us from the sad gross parts was how, especially toward the end of the series, many alleged predators, when caught, would recognize Chris Hansen and be almost starstruck by him, saying things like "I knew it! I knew it!" as if Hansen were Candid Camera's host Alan Funt (yep, ask me about my grandbabies) and not the harbinger of the official and total ruining of their lives forever. Anyway, in this clip from tonight's show, a man arrested for pimping recognizes Chris ("Was she seventeen or something?") and then can't resist getting an autograph from the #1 person in the world associated with the capturing of child molesters. Americans are THIS obsessed with fame.

If that guy is guilty, he should totally put Chris Hansen's autograph up in his cell and see what happens!