"...posed as a mannequin..."
You gotta love TV. Let me give you an actual example. A man drove off the road and hit a car that was parked on the shoulder, permanently injuring the occupant. The court ordered regular restitution payments be paid to help with the victims long-term care. The driver subsequently disappeared and was not heard from for several years. Attorneys for the victim were unable to find this man and no payments were ever made. We were able, through a wee bit of deception, to locate this man in another state. Rather than pay one of us to travel there to serve him with a summons, the attorney elected to have a process server in that town do the service. We still got a nice little check for our detective work and justice was served. I don't understand how some think this makes us bad people.