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"OKLAHOMA CITY -- It was a bright-blue winter morning in this Bible Belt capital, and Brian Bates was happy. The balmy weather conditions, he explained, were conducive to his peculiar line of work: public humiliation.
Steering wheel in one hand, camcorder in the other, Bates slowly drove a white Ford Explorer with tinted windows past a procession of sad-eyed prostitutes. But his camera was not trained on them; it was targeting their customers.
Bates, the self-styled Video Vigilante of Oklahoma City, sneaks up and surprises men consorting with prostitutes and then posts cleaned-up versions of the footage on the Internet -- to disgrace them.
"If you get caught by the cops, you pay a fine. If you get caught by me, you get a life sentence," Bates bragged as he trailed a middle-aged man who had invited a young prostitute into his red Ford pickup. "There's no reprieve, no probation. People will be hitting that video on Google searches as long as you live."
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Steering wheel in one hand, camcorder in the other, Bates slowly drove a white Ford Explorer with tinted windows past a procession of sad-eyed prostitutes. But his camera was not trained on them; it was targeting their customers.
Bates, the self-styled Video Vigilante of Oklahoma City, sneaks up and surprises men consorting with prostitutes and then posts cleaned-up versions of the footage on the Internet -- to disgrace them.
"If you get caught by the cops, you pay a fine. If you get caught by me, you get a life sentence," Bates bragged as he trailed a middle-aged man who had invited a young prostitute into his red Ford pickup. "There's no reprieve, no probation. People will be hitting that video on Google searches as long as you live."
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