Male HvP Decoy

Chris saving Charles Lawrence from the decoy's performance

> *"Who lives here? Well, I live here... Meeeeeee, my mommy, and my daddy..."*
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> -The decoy unknowingly dropping the most influential line of his life.
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**The Male HvP Decoy** (*name redacted*) was a decoy in the Fairfield, Connecticut, sting operation. He is best known for his older appearance and terrible acting.

## Biography

### *Hansen vs. Predator*

He (nineteen years old at the time) was recruited as a decoy for the Fairfield, Connecticut, sting because he was an intern for the police department and volunteered for the duty. He immediately became a meme in the TCaP community due to the fact that he was obviously not a thirteen-year-old boy. Chris Hansen even acknowledges that he looked "a little older than thirteen". Jesse Velez, who looks visibly disappointed upon meeting the decoy, tells him that he doesn't look thirteen and even asks for his ID. His encounter with Velez has perhaps become the most notorious decoy moment in the show's history, due to his terrible acting (acting much younger than the age he presented with his “My mommy and my daddy”), trying too hard to seem younger than he is, the awkward tension between him and the suspected predator, and the fact that he looks older than the suspected predator. In a lesser-known encounter, he appears to convince Charles Lawrence.

### Post-*Predator* activities

Following his contribution to the series, he worked as a security officer for the New England Patriots football team and The Kraft Group (a sports and event management company founded by the Patriots owner, Robert Kraft). In 2019 and 2020 he continued to build off his already stacked resume by assuming internships for the Warwick Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police, respectively.

## Trivia

* According to Nervous Nellie/Nelly, he looks younger in person than he does on video.
* Despite his laughable performance when interrogating Jesse Velez, his acting is described as "great" by Chris Hansen.
* In 2020, a Tiktok surfaced depicting the male HvP decoy in a frat, humorously acknowledging his meme status in the TCAP community.

## Quotes

**Jesse Velez:**You look different.

**Decoy:**I know.

**Decoy:**What'd you wanna do after? Netflix? Chill? Netflix and chill?

**Jesse Velez:**Where're your parents at?

**Decoy:**They went away.

**Jesse Velez:**Oh, they did?

**Decoy:**Sorry?

**Jesse Velez:**They did?

**Decoy:**Yeah.

**Jesse Velez:**So how old are you?

**Decoy:**Thirteen.

**Jesse Velez:**You don't look thirteen.

**Decoy:**That's what they all say, y'know. That's what they all say.

**Jesse Velez:**This is gonna be a weird question but do you have your ID on you?

**Decoy:**I don't have my ID on me. Sorry. I'm only thirteen. My mom keeps that in her purse.

**Jesse Velez:**Who lives here?

**Decoy:**Who lives here? Well, I live here. Meeeee, my mommy, and my daddy.

**Jesse Velez:** \*Looks directly at a hidden camera\*

**Decoy:**Bet you wanna come look at this, this right here (knocks on table). This is- my dad made this.

**Jesse Velez:**Oh he did?

**Decoy:**Yeah. Pretty cool, wanna come look at it?

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/FansHansenvsPredator/comments/ygyskt/rare\_video\_of\_the\_hvp\_male\_decoy\_from\_about\_two/