i wasn t going to use them, i was going to give them to her. you were going to give her condoms. you just came over to tell her it s a bad idea to talk to guys on the internet, but if you re going to talk, here, use some condoms. yeah. danny, it doesn t wash. i know. it doesn t wash. well, i m sorry. why don t you start again and just tell me what your plan was tonight? just to meet her. just to meet her? yeah. but the condoms, the sex talk. i know. i know. i ve never done this before. i mean, i have never been in problems with the police. do you ever watch tv, danny? yes. do you ever watch dateline nbc? yes. have you ever seen our stories on computer predators? yes. this is one of them. now, if there s anything else you d like to say for yourself. no, that s it. then obviously, you re free to leave. thank you. i think some of these guys truly believe that dateline can t be everywhere, and what are the odds of it happening to me? law
nbc and we re doing a story on computer predators. if there s anything else you d like to say to us, we d like to hear it. if not, there s obviously nothing i can do to keep you here and you re obviously free to go. he knows he s in significant trouble. i mean, if you go back and look at record from the previous case it would appear that he perhaps got probation instead of prison time because the 15-year-old boy he pleaded guilty to having sex with told him he was older. how old, 68? and he wasn t going to catch a break on this one, because it said in the transcript, this boy was 13. robert lyons. i thought it was somebody else clearly he s had experience going through the criminal justice system, but it became pretty clear immediately during the police interview that lyons
i thought, you know, based upon the look in his eyes, that this could go a couple different ways. one of them not so good. i wish i could just run home with my tail between my legs and i d feel like apologizing but i mean, like, it s cyber. who do i apologize to? and i don t know. i feel sick. well, i am not the police. but i am chris hansen with dateline nbc and we re doing a story on computer predators. he knows that he s a bad situation once the camera guys come out. and so he s not going to try to be my pal anymore. he s mad. well, you better i ll shove that camera down his throat. i don t think you re going to want to do that. why s that? i don t think you want to do that. we can t keep you here. if you want to say anything
admits that he knew it was illegal, and he showed up anyway. what do you think should happen to you? i don t know, sir. well, there s something you got to know. i am not the father of the boy, but i am chris hansen of dateline nbc and we re doing a story on computer predators. anything else you would like to say to us, we would like to hear it. if not, you re free to leave. thank you. you can take the towel to the garage and get dressed. he sees the camera, he s trying to keep the towel up around him. he s trying to grab his clothes and head out the door and he gets his underwear on and just beelines to get out of there. if he had just left it at that, you know, he would have been a memorable character. but what he did the next day just put him over the top. less than 24 hours later,
can t i m more than happy to tell you who i am. i m chris hansen with dateline nbc and we re doing an investigation on computer predators. oh, now. come on. you don t want to touch anybody. you don t want to it was really only one of the times the only time, really, when someone physically lunged at me. looking back, i don t think i was in much danger. but you can see how the security system works. our guy stepped in. took care of it. and diffused the situation. you got to stop this. sit down. sit down. you re free to leave any time. we got phone calls from him. for months. and he was down right mean. he blamed us for his situation. and we offered him the chance to do an interview. he initially said yes but only if we didn t show the video of the house, show his face or