Ask a Bounty Hunter

[Jeff White]

hammer4nc said;

Through several discussions here on THR, one of the major, repeated themes put forth by these members (one a moderator, no less), with regard to criticism of public officials, is the "few bad apples", defense, i.e., how wrong it is to generalize based on our limited, anecdotal experience.

It's pretty hard to accept the "few bad apples" defense when virtually everyone you met in a business was a bad apple. I have yet to meet the charactor Lee Majors played in that old TV show about the Hollywood Stunt Man who moonlighted as a bounty hunter. Chapman, currently the most famous bounty hunter in the eyes of the public is also a convicted felon.

I suppose there must be some decent professionals working in that profession, but from my experience, if there are, they must be in the minority because I've yet to meet one. The attirude that HMMurdock displayed in this thread is exacly how every bounty hunter I've ever met acted. The profession needs to clean itself up.

Last year I started a thread here on a story about 2 bounty hunters in Missouri who in a case of mistaken identity arrested the wrong man, kidnapped him and began driving out of the jurisdiction with him. When they were caught up with, their employer abandoned them.

Jeff

 

[S&W 910]

"Last year I started a thread here on a story about 2 bounty hunters in Missouri who in a case of mistaken identity arrested the wrong man, kidnapped him and began driving out of the jurisdiction with him. When they were caught up with, their employer abandoned them."




Those guys should be charged with kidnapping and do years in jail just like any other convicted kidnapper

But some of the guys on here seem to think it is wrong to resist bounty hunters

 

[TallPine]

I was sort of ambivalent about the bail bonding/bounty hunter industry, but I must say that after reading this thread I have a less positive outlook about them (probably not the original poster's intention ).

Still, I could mostly care less since I probably won't ever have anything to do with them. But some bounty hunters at the wrong address is just one more remote possibility to think about considering home and land security. That's all more of a "strategies and tactics" topic, which mostly has been discussed a lot already. Living way out in the hills, my policy is and will remain to be extremely suspicious and circumspect when strangers visit - especially a group of strangers. My driveway is posted, so anyone who comes to my door is technically already trespassing.

 

[Art Eatman]

And that's enuf. I really don't think we need more backing and forthing, nor "What I'm gonna do is..." stuff.

Art