One of my little Vices is watching Dog The Bounty Hunter
The show is a reality series that follows Duane “Dog” Chapman and his family of bounty hunters as they track down bail jumpers. In America when people are arrested they can often get out of jail until their trial by paying bail. (Read: My horrible surprise, there’s no bail in Japan!) Those who can’t afford the bail go to bail bondsman who front the money under the condition that the person shows up for trial. If the person bails and goes on the run (bail jumpers) then the state has a right to seize the money provided by the bail bondsman unless the bondsman or bounty hunter, in this case Dog, can track him down.
I started watching the show late in the game so I missed a lot of episodes of the first seasons but I’ve tried to get my hands on everything I could. It’s amazing watching them change as a hunting unit, just in the couple of years that I’ve seen them on air. Looking from the first season you can see their weapons and techniques evolve.
Dog doesn’t carry a gun with him and so relies on manpower and pepper spray. At the beginning of the series they used hand held bear spray or mace. Then they moved on to paint gun pellets fired from what looks like standard paint ball guns but in the latter seasons they’ve moved onto paint ball guns that look like actual weapons. Watching them is like watching some sort of red-neck tactical unit storming a target house.
It’s not just the armament that has improved but their search techniques too. In the first seasons they used maps, and personal knowledge of their communities. In a lot of cases they didn’t know what was waiting for them but now they’re armed with iphones and ipads where they can use Google Maps’ Street View to find out exactly where the perp lives and what the neighborhood looks like. I’ve even seen a couple of episodes where they use facebook to catch their prey. Either the idiot bailjumper doesn’t have his privacy set to “friends only” or the Chapmans hack the bail jumpers facebook account to see personal communication. It’s amazing watching the show seeing how technology has changed not just our lives but even the art of bounty hunting.
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Yes rednecks and technology…I like how you used the word Amazing to say scary as hell. Rednecks + technology = monkey trying to open a coconut with an atom bomb he found laying around…Dog can hack…therefore, if his show fails he can always turn to Redneck cyber crime…JESUS AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT SEES WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE!?! Still I can see where it would be a very interesting show to watch, surprised it is still around after his leaked phone conversations.
The whole family is a train wreck, the phone scandal was just a minor bump. Both Dog and his wife are reformed meth heads, the “brother” was kicked off the show for a supposed indecent exposure and the youngest daughter recently was arrested and publicly humiliated for a wild bender after getting divorced. The most normal one is the MMA fighter.
So…you see my point?
Actually one of the recent episodes that dealt with Lyssa Chapman’s arrest also had this interesting subplot about this cute Asian girl who got caught up in a Hawaiian meth dealing ring. You could see her just waste away…
Cute Asian caught up in a meth ring and wasting away…GOD you are depressing me YOS! Quick say something funny for the love of god.
I don’t have cable because it’s like crack to me. I can suddenly find myself in a time warp and wonder what happened to 5 hours…. but anytime I am at my in-laws and this show is on I get sucked in. I blame the mullet, I study the mullet and before I know it the show has sucked me in for more than just the mullet.
Oh and the boob shelf…
The show makes me gawk as if I was watching a car accident in slow motion, I can’t look away!
One of my friends used to frequent this weird website. It took mullets and made them into a hobby like birdwatching. It had different categories and so on. Pictures would be posted by the sites owner and mullet spotters/fans. I can’t for the life of me remember the site. He did show it to me and it was just not weird enough for me to frequent.
here are some other sites I came across in my atempt to find that site for you:
http://mulletjunky.com/picfix8.htm
http://www.mulletjunky.com/america.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/sd/DavsHomePage/
http://www.collegehumor.com/picture/3192963/mullet-spotting
http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=mullet%20spotting
http://themulletuncut.com/
I feel bad even posting this.
It is like humanity has failed when I think of the mullet.
Fuck that. I am a proud supporter of the classic “Fuck You” Mullet.
Thanks for the links.
I know a guy in town that had an amazing mullet, I think he originally had it as a joke and then just sported it. Seriously he got so much lady attention from it. It was a conversation piece and it worked for him. That’s actually how I met him, I complimented him on it and he got to telling me the mullet dare story.
The bogan/redneck maxtreme entertainment hyper-revolution seems to be taking over. Read this baby this morning: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/the-shire-tens-new-tv-reality-show-20120318-1vd7v.html
Half of my mates from where I grew up would think these fake-tan cladded women are the hottest thing since shit on toast. I cringe, but I wouldn’t mind just checking out an episode either. Modern day circus freak show?