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09/15/2006: "Dog Hit By Karma"

If I had to guess, I'd say that most people don't hold your average bounty hunter in high esteem. Paid to track down those who skip bail - and using methods that are at times iffy at best - bounty hunters rank somewhere on the evolutionary scale between child molesters and jailhouse informants.

And then there's Dog.

Part biker thug, part surfer dude, Duane "Dog" Chapman is a bounty hunter who has catapulted to fame via his own reality show "Dog the Bounty Hunter" on A&E. His rock star-like persona has grown over the run of the show as he executes ever more over-the-top trackdowns.

His claim to fame - and the incident that brought him to the notice of network executives - was the capture of serial rapist Andrew Luster. Luster had fled to Puerto Vallarta and was using his wealth - he's a Max Factor heir - to support his lifestyle as expatriate on the run. Dog and his team violated several Mexican laws to capture Luster (bounty hunting illegal in Mexico? Imagine!) and were themselves arrested. Once bailed out, Dog promply forgot his promise to return for trial.

Unfortunately for the Dogster, the Mexican Government did not forget. Yesterday, US Marshals arrested Chapman and two members of his team for return to Mexico to face the charges he skipped on. Needless to say, Chapman sounds a lot like those nutballs he chases down ...

Chapman, shackled at his ankles and wearing a blue muscle T-shirt at his first court appearance Thursday, said the government was jealous of his success in hunting down criminals.

"You see what the American government is doing to us? They throw us in jail," Chapman said in a federal courtroom. "I'm so upset about this."

Looks like Chapman forgot that justice is a two-way street, and he's got to meet the requirements of bail just like those he goes after.

I wonder if he was nailed by "Cazador De la Generosidad Perro"?