Posted on 09/14/2010 5:56:56 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
Police in the US have issued a bizarre warning to parents about a ‘paedophile’ cartoon bear that was created by a website as in internet joke. Pedobear was created on 4chan, a chaotic, largely unregulated network of messageboards which has spawned some of the internet’s most famous virals and jokes. It is used by some users to mock people in internet chat rooms by suggesting that they are paedophiles or have said something slightly inappropriate about children. Now police in San Luis Obispo in California appear to have misunderstood the internet trend – or meme - and have warned parents that the Pedobear is being used by real paedophiles as a ‘mascot’. In a po-faced newsletter that has made them the laughing stock of the internet, the Sheriff’s department has warned parents that some paedophiles are even dressing as the bear to signal their intentions.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
4chan is a bad place.
Anonymous is Legion
paedophile: likes sex with stuffed animals and dolls
Pedophile: likes sex with children
ManBearPig??
They also put out an alert for a man named Chris Hansen(*), who “is known to associate with pedophiles.”
(*) From the Dateline NBC show, To Catch A Predator.
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