Five Redeeming Qualities of Dog the Bounty Hunter
1. He is an example of how someone with a criminal past can hold a legal job, and still get the thrills and excitement from their former life. For many who are incarcerated and struggling to get their lives back on track, he offers hope for a better future. An ex-con who can make an honest living without fundamentally changing who he is? This is what many inmates hope to be someday. And more than one person affected by the incarceration of another hopes for a similar transformation in their loved one's life.
2. He and his team counsel their captures and try to help them change their lives. Once the takedown is done, Dog and his team share their stories, their pasts, and their paths to a changed future. They empathize and understand what it is like to be on the other side of the cuffs, and have made a difference in some lives. Not all, no, but some. And that is more than many people do in their lives.
3. Once captured, he treats the FTAs with kindness. He and his team have been known to load up on goodies from the drive-thru for a fugitive who fought them tooth and nail, or to offer a cigarette to a capture who cussed them out only moments before.
4. He values family. While his philosophies differ from mine, his love for his wife and children (grown and juvenile) is clear, and their family business ties them together.
5. His show provides fodder for comic scenes in the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum series. The literary mockery of bounty hunters who advertise their profession (losing the element of surprise) has generated many a chuckle among the readers of the Stephanie Plum series.
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