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. you re free to leave, obviously if you want to go. had he decided to pursue the more aggressive route and had he gotten physical, i mean, we had security there, and security people would have stepped in to prevent that from happening. okay. but can i talk to you outside? you can say whatever you want to say no, i mean obviously want to say something off camera. i can have the cameras turned off at this point.
kennely was significant because not only did he admit what he was doing was wrong, he also 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 ve 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. take the towel. 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, kennely would have been a memorable character. but what he did the next day just put him over the top. less than 24 hours later, he s back in a chat. i have been in television for
investigation. so when joe wunderler says i like what you guys are doing, i believe in it, i want to help, i m thinking he believes we re the police. so my impression was that he was offering to cooperate in another police investigation, he would help us in any way he could to catch other predators if we d cut him some slack or perhaps even let him off the hook. i was wrong for doing what i did. i know that. i will do anything to help you guys out. what should happen to you? honestly, i d like to be able to get be given the chance to help you guys out any way i can. what can you do to help us out? anything that you suggest. well, i m not a policeman. i m chris hansen of dateline nbc, and we re doing a story on computer predators. you re free to leave right now. if there s anything else you want to say, we re happy to hear it. if you care to leave, you re welcome to leave.
why should anybody believe that? do you see what i m saying? so you ve been in movies. you ve been on television. well, you re about to get another role because i m chris hansen with dateline nbc and we re doing a story on computer predators. you re free to go, but if there s anything else you d like to say we d be happy to hear it. you have to wonder obviously when you re talking to an actor if he s not putting on an act then and there. but i think reality sunk in pretty quickly and i think he knew he was in trouble and he knew that this was not going to be a great day for him. so i think it was it was really him we saw. you ll receive a date to when you bail. they ll tell you when to appear in court. she told me she was 13. what was your plan with this 12 or 13-year-old girl? she had some video games.
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?