Four young Chilliwack men who dressed as superheroes to confront potential sex offenders have drawn public kudos but are being criticized by police, who say crime-fighting should be left to the proper authorities.
Police say the vigilantes - two are 17, one is 18, and one is 20 - put themselves in danger by posing online as underage girls to lure men for sexual encounters, only to confront the men publicly dressed as Batman and the Flash. The encounters were videotaped and posted in recent weeks on YouTube, under the title To Troll a Predator.
Police have spoken to the young men and their parents, said Cpl. Tammy Hollings-worth, spokeswoman for the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP, Wednesday.
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