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I'm watching a Chris Hanson NBC special. It's just like "To Catch a Predator", except infinitely more lame. Rather than outing pedophiles who have arranged sexual rendezvous with minors, the topic of the show is "deceptive and misleading insurance salesmen"...really?! It has the same dramatic flair as "To Catch a Predator", except without the ILLEGAL aspect of what's being caught on camera. Rather than catching a middle aged man bringing condoms and sex toys to a 12 year old girl or boy, it's middle aged men not being completely forthright about the penalties of withdrawing money from your annuity at greater than 10 percent per year. So, just to clarify, rather than catching a pedophile, Chris Hanson is now "catching" a businessman who, rather than saying "you lose 16% of your principal if you withdraw more than 10% from your annuity in a year", he only says "there's a penalty associated with...". Really...an HOUR of television based on this premise. How lame.