Are you a Trekkie? Keep the hell away from my daughter!

[JohnT]

Their work is a daily sojourn to the underworld. Gillespie has a team of 10 men and six women who spend hours in front of their computers, extracting leads, writing warrants and sifting photos for clues. The payoff is the day they get to kick down a door and take the "bad guy" away. The mood is light and the humor often off-color to ease the horror.

On one wall is a "Star Trek" poster with investigators' faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie.

Det. Constable Warren Bulmer slips on a Klingon sash and shield they confiscated in a recent raid. "It has something to do with a fantasy world where mutants and monsters have power and where the usual rules don't apply," Bulmer reflects. "But beyond that, I can't really explain it."

That is one of the biggest challenges of the Child Exploitation Section's work. They need to get inside the minds of the victims and the perpetrators to find them, but there is only so far they can — or want to — go.

link.

In case you haven't figured it out, this guy is saying that all but one of the child predators arrested in Toronto over the past four years were Trekkies.

[Q Classic]

Every last one of them also drank water during their crime.

[JohnT]

Precisely!

[chequita guevara]

There is a much smaller ration of Trekkies to normal people than water drinkers to normal people. This is disturbingly significiant.

[Whoha]

http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/2005/04/28/la_times_claim_about_pedophiles_wrong.php

"Wow. All but one in four years. Seemed rather unlikely to me.

So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the LA Times article.

He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly."

There is a lot to **** on trekkies for, but this isn't one of those things.

[Pekka]

yeah it is. Not the same as drinking water. Did Star Trek made them do it? of course not.

JohnT, you and I both know, that when your daughter is like 24 or so, we somehow bump into each other in indie rock festival, she's selling flowers and I'm just digging the music and she really digs my bike, and you know, then we get married and your heart will die



In fact that should be my new goal! Only have to wait about 20+ years but ****.. I'll inherit you, go on JohnT, go make some money..

[chequita guevara]

'Nevertheless, Detective Lamond does claim that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest."'

[Edan]

Maybe the reason they're trekkies is because of Wesley or the other annoying child actors on the various Treks?

Which would mean that those of us who hate Wesley are in the clear.

[JohnT]

Let's not selectively quote, Whoha:

He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times' reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?

Nevertheless, Detective Lamond does claim that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest."

They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and Det. Lamond claims they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs." I asked if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek specific.

A weird factoid. Nevertheless, it is not correct that "all but one ... in the last four years" was a hard core Star Trek fan.

But it is correct to say that, in their experiences at least, there is a strong correlation between pedophilia and Trekkieness.

[Whoha]

passing interest != hardcore trekkie. My father has 1 of those videos, I gues that makes him a pedophile.

Also there is the fact that Star Trek is easily recognized, perhaps the police missed other material that was present.

[JohnT]

Do note that your second objections was already rebutted in the quote.

[Whoha]

No, they mentioned Harry Potter and Starwars, I'm talking the really obscure stuff.

[Pekka]

No, in this case it doesn't make trekkies pedophiles. However in this particular case, these pedophiles were also trekkies. There's a difference. It means that in this case, it's more likely that the pedophile is a trekkie, not that a trekkie is a pedophile... of course unless trekkie phenomenon would be small, then it would suggest that, but since it's worldwide, and huge, then it really doesn't.

[JohnT]

However, people have no problem making this sort of correlation with ones position in your church and pedophilia, Pekka. There are tens of thousands of priests, a couple of molesters, and BAM! The entire Catholic church is apparently populated by child molesters.

[DinoDoc]

/me wonders if he should mention that he owns all 3 seasons of TOS on DVD