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Friday, September 15, 2006

He Doesn't Have To Leave The House


















Call me a wet blanket, if you like. I'll take that for the sake, of telling the truth. I wasn't as excited about the adventures of "Dog The Bounty Hunter", and his recovery squad. As everyone else was, until last week. I couldn't put my finger on what it was. I just knew it was something. Everybody else was caught up in the hype. Well, almost everybody else. As it turned out, he was wanted by Mexican authorities. They knew he was wanted. In the midst of all the hoopla. We were celebrating a fugitive. He knew he was wanted all the time.

There were too many flaws in his lifestyle, as it were. To suddenly be given the power, of both Judge and jury. It was an accident waiting to happen. I thought he came across as a legalized thug. Who had been given rockstar status. Whenever I watched his television show, I saw lapses in his judgement. He was a bit of what I call a "hotdog". He was his own biggest fan. He had some jacked up habits, but he was the boss. He was always just ahead of his biggest bond. To capture three bond jumpers. He didn't have to leave the house.

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  1. Anonymous8:04 PM

    That's like sending them to the wolves.

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  2. 'Dog' Unleashed: Chapman Out on Bail
    By JAYMES SONG
    AP
    HONOLULU (Sept. 16) - TV reality star Duane "Dog" Chapman and two co-stars accused of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters' capture of a cosmetics company heir in Mexico posted bail and were released Friday.


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    Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending the night in a federal detention center and his co-stars on the popular A&E show "Dog The Bounty Hunter" were freed on $100,000 bail each.

    Chapman, his son, Leland Chapman, and associate Timothy Chapman, no relation, were arrested Thursday on charges stemming from the capture of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster on June 18, 2003, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, officials said.

    Chapman's capture of Luster, who had fled the country during his trial on charges he raped three women, catapulted the 53-year-old bounty hunter to fame and led to the reality series on A&E. Luster is now serving a 124-year prison term.

    Bounty hunting is considered a crime in Mexico, and charges have been pending against the three since local police in Mexico arrested them shortly after they roped in Luster. They posted bail but never returned for their court hearing in July 2003, officials said.

    Chapman made the sign of the cross and mouthed "I love you" to his wife, who was sitting in the front row of the crowded courtroom.

    The men are now required to wear electronic monitoring devices until they return to court for extradition hearings to face trial in Mexico. The judge said they were not flight risks.

    Chapman and his tattooed crew were ordered to surrender their passports, to stay in Hawaii and not possess any firearms.

    Defense attorney Brook Hart, who successfully argued during the 1-hour, 10-minute hearing that his clients have no reason to be locked up, called the devices "overkill" but did not object to their use.

    "It's ironic that the bounty hunter would go around with a bracelet while arresting people. But so be it," he said.

    Reporters and fans packed the courtroom, and several supporters held signs outside the federal courthouse saying, "Let go our hero" and "In Dog we Trust." A&E TV crews were filming the events for a future episode of Chapman's show.

    "Our whole family likes Dog. He captures people who do wrong. Plus my older sister wants to marry Leland," said 11-year-old Shannon McNamara, of Los Angeles, who was wearing a Bounty Hunter shirt.

    Chapman's son Leland, 29, and Timothy Chapman, 41, assist him in exploits chronicled for the TV show around the Hawaiian Islands. The show focuses on Chapman's family as much as the bounty hunting, which generally involves tracking down bail jumpers, often creating emotional scenes with repentant captives.

    A member of a biker gang as a young man, Chapman was convicted in 1977 of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to five years in prison.

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