Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Attorney General's Office warns of 'Paedobear'

The New Mexico Attorney General's Office has cautioned parents against an Internet image they said is really a sexual menace called the "paedobear."



It started out as a joke, but authorities said the bear has spiralled into something much darker and more evil than they could've imagined. Authorities said the bear actually started off as an image mocking paedophiles but that paedophiles have embraced the bear and are using the image themselves.

Lynn Southard with the AGO said authorities have seen several cars in Albuquerque and southern New Mexico sporting large paedobear stickers. She said that other than getting the word out, there's not much the AGO can do. It's not illegal to have a paedobear image in public.


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"It's very scary, it's a very scary situation that's been brought to our attention that these vehicles are circulating around New Mexico," Southard said. Authorities said some people may be sporting the paedobear symbols as a joke, but they said that doesn't make law enforcement take the images any less seriously.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's somewhat disturbing that you felt it necessary to insert an "a" into each instance of the prefix "pedo". A professional can help you with that; I'd recommend a Freudian specialist.

arbroath said...

I don't know what's Freudian about it.

In the UK 'pedo' is a soil type, whereas 'paedo', which comes from the Greek word pais, refers to a child molestor

shak said...

Maybe Anonymous doesn't understand that you are based in England and that there are different spellings here than in the U.S.

Insolitus said...

If the police think child molesters are marking their own cars, why are they upset? Doesn't it make their job easier?

Gareth said...

Given that the authorities suspect that paedophiles are using these stickers, I doubt that any nonce would actually use one. It calls attention to them and will almost certainly get them stuck on some watch list.

I think it's more likely that people (probably kids) are putting these stickers on other people's cars to try to label them as paedos.

Ratz said...

Now I'm confused.. I'd assumed Arbroath was based in Scotland (hence the Arbroath bit). If you are, is that just the colonies equating England == UK?

arbroath said...

My late dad was born and brought up in Arbroath before he spent most of his life as an expat, Ratz.

Hence the name.

Gareth said...

Were the blog based in Arbroath then surely it would be something to do with Arbroath.