on 11-04-2014 07:05 AM
Remember The Song By Cyndi Lauper?
A 40-year-old US man jumped into his car and drove for 18 hours nearly non-stop to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.
But when Christopher Lanning showed up at the rendezvous point, he found undercover police waiting to arrest him.
Lanning, who has dwarfism, was in such a hurry to have sex that he refused to stop for bathroom breaks and instead urinated into a bottle when he set out on Tuesday from Kansas City, Missouri to the meeting point - a petrol station beside a high school in Longwood, Florida.
When he arrived at the petrol station after the 2000km road trip, Lanning's car reeked of urine.
"It was pretty bad,'' Longwood Police Department spokesman Kevin Tuck told the Orlando Sentinel.
Lanning thought he had been chatting to a teenage girl online and arranging to meet her for sex when in fact it was an undercover officer laying a trap as part of an internet sting.
Lanning was arrested on charges that included travelling to meet a child for sex and transmitting obscene material to a minor.
"I made a major mistake in judgment," he told a Seminole County judge yesterday.
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He looks old for 40
on 11-04-2014 12:20 PM
on 11-04-2014 12:43 PM
Lanning, who has dwarfism, was in such a hurry to have sex that he refused to stop for bathroom breaks
How does his dwarfism have anything to do with the story?
on 11-04-2014 12:49 PM
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:Lanning, who has dwarfism, was in such a hurry to have sex that he refused to stop for bathroom breaks
How does his dwarfism have anything to do with the story?
It's irrelvant, she-el.
on 11-04-2014 01:17 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:Lanning, who has dwarfism, was in such a hurry to have sex that he refused to stop for bathroom breaks
How does his dwarfism have anything to do with the story?It's irrelvant, she-el.
That's what I thought, Icy. I wasn't having a go at you, just at the article. It seemed to me his dwarfism was only mentioned to make the story a bit more lurid - planting a suggestion in the minds of readers of some connection between dwarfism (Ooh,look, he's a freak) and paedophilia.
on 11-04-2014 03:16 PM
on 11-04-2014 03:25 PM
@joz*garage wrote:
@j*oono wrote:I know I shouldn't feel sorry for him but there is something really sad about this story.
i agree, there's something very wrong with the story i feel
the cops set him up and didn't actually commit a crime, or did he?
"Lanning was arrested on charges that included travelling to meet a child for sex and transmitting obscene material to a minor."
You might feel sorry for him but you'd still be glad the cops were there looking out for your kid, wouldn't you?
on 11-04-2014 03:30 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@joz*garage wrote:
@j*oono wrote:I know I shouldn't feel sorry for him but there is something really sad about this story.
i agree, there's something very wrong with the story i feel
the cops set him up and didn't actually commit a crime, or did he?
"Lanning was arrested on charges that included travelling to meet a child for sex and transmitting obscene material to a minor."
You might feel sorry for him but you'd still be glad the cops were there looking out for your kid, wouldn't you?
there was no child
and he may not of been tempted to travel... at all... if the cops didnt set the bait
& he may not have ever commited a sex crime
(and i dont have a kid)
on 11-04-2014 03:57 PM
@joz*garage wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
@joz*garage wrote:
@j*oono wrote:I know I shouldn't feel sorry for him but there is something really sad about this story.
i agree, there's something very wrong with the story i feel
the cops set him up and didn't actually commit a crime, or did he?
"Lanning was arrested on charges that included travelling to meet a child for sex and transmitting obscene material to a minor."
You might feel sorry for him but you'd still be glad the cops were there looking out for your kid, wouldn't you?
there was no child
Just as well
and he may not of been tempted to travel... at all... if the cops didnt set the bait
It's how they catch sex offenders
& he may not have ever commited a sex crime
Well he's been charged with one now
(and i dont have a kid)
I know. It was a hypothetical.
on 11-04-2014 04:01 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@joz*garage wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
@joz*garage wrote:
@j*oono wrote:I know I shouldn't feel sorry for him but there is something really sad about this story.
i agree, there's something very wrong with the story i feel
the cops set him up and didn't actually commit a crime, or did he?
"Lanning was arrested on charges that included travelling to meet a child for sex and transmitting obscene material to a minor."
You might feel sorry for him but you'd still be glad the cops were there looking out for your kid, wouldn't you?
there was no child
Just as well
and he may not of been tempted to travel... at all... if the cops didnt set the bait
It's how they catch sex offenders
& he may not have ever commited a sex crime
Well he's been charged with one now
(and i dont have a kid)
I know. It was a hypothetical.
it reminds me of illegal sex sites
one can be charged just for viewing them even though it might be out of curiosity
but the sites remain
on 11-04-2014 04:03 PM
I wouldn't know.