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Comment: Several months ago, there was a story about a mother who purchased a bargain DVD player at Wal-Mart in order to allow her children to watch Disney movies. The story has it that when she got the DVD player home and hooked it up, it automatically started up and began immediately playing the hardcore parts of a porn DVD which was already in the player. A link to the story is here:
More recently, a similiar story has cropped up about a boy who purchased a Sony PSP game device and the game NBA '06 only to find that the game was actually a porn movie on UMD.
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The first one, at least, sounds very unlikely. A DVD would be jostled about a lot during the shipping of a DVD player, and I know from experience that the wrong handling of a DVD player with a disk in it can ruin the disk.
Also...maybe it's just me, but isn't it a bit much to get kids a counselor for seeing thirty seconds of a DVD? Shouldn't a brisk "birds and bees" talk suffice?
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quote:Originally posted by Dancing Dragon: The first one, at least, sounds very unlikely. A DVD would be jostled about a lot during the shipping of a DVD player, and I know from experience that the wrong handling of a DVD player with a disk in it can ruin the disk.
Also...maybe it's just me, but isn't it a bit much to get kids a counselor for seeing thirty seconds of a DVD? Shouldn't a brisk "birds and bees" talk suffice?
As to your first point, it depends on the model -- some top-loaders secure the disk in place, although I agree that most consumer models wouldn't do too well with a loose disk.
As to your second point, again, it depends -- if we're just talking average (whatever that is) hardcore, maybe yes -- if it was something exploitative or particularly kinky, maybe no.
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When I was in high school, my father (an elementary school principal) brought home a tape one day that he had confiscated at school -- it seems one of the night custodians had been using the school A/V equipment for his own entertainment, and had accidentally (we hope) left a tape in a machine that a teacher had pre-set for class the next day. Luckily the teacher noticed her tape sitting on the cart before she pressed play. My dad, figuring I was old enough to handle it, was curious as to what the fifth-grade students would have seen. As it turned out, the first few seconds were relatively harmless -- a receptionist in a low-cut blouse talking suggestively to some guy in a leisure suit. "Well," my father said, "at least that's not so bad; it's not like they would have seen..." at which point the film cut to an orgy scene, in which the camera panned across the room to show a woman masturbating with the handle of a whip, various and assorted S&M bondage/punishment acts, enough sexual positions and variations to serve as a Kama Sutra primer, and, most notably (and most unforgettably -- years later, this image is still burned into my brain) a woman rubbing pancake batter onto her nether regions and sitting on a hot griddle. Keep in mind that this was within 45 seconds or so. I didn't need counseling (although my father and I agreed on the spot to destroy the tape and NEVER mention this to my mother), but I can see where the images might have been disturbing to someone younger.
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quote:a woman rubbing pancake batter onto her nether regions and sitting on a hot griddle.
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The story sounds plausible. Not everybody checks if there's a cassette, CD or DVD left in the device when they get rid of it. To take another example, one or two years ago, a (stupid) pedophile was arrested in Switzerland because he had sold his old computer, but had completely forgotten to erase all his kiddy-porn files. The shocked buyer just had to call the police.
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quote:Originally posted by DarkDan: Mr. Furious, IIRC, bought a refurbished video camera and found a homemade porn tape in it.
Close. It wasn't a homemade tape, but rather a sort of compilation video with Korean writing on the label.
Also, the camera wasn't refurbished - it was brand new, and factory sealed. My theory is that they had been using the tape to test the camera during the QC process, and forgot to take it out.
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On one of the local radio stations one of the female DJs talked about how she got a DVD player for Christmas from her boss that was obviously used then returned because the box had been taped back up and it came without a remote, and when they got it hooked up, it came on and porn started playing.
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A friend of mine worked in the Department of Environmental Quality and would tell about the crazy calls he would get, including this one sent in an email:
quote:A guy bought a DVD player from Wal-Mart, so I’m thinking maybe something dripped out of it, or something.
Oh no, it wouldn’t be that simple…there was a DVD already in it…evidently of hardcore porn. After much snicker stifling…we asked the guy why he decided to call us, and apparently he saw something that said “For complaints, call (our number)”
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I think it's implausible simply because the porn DVDs I have seen recently have a few minutes of unskippable warnings and such when they start up, before you can even get to a menu.
quote:Originally posted by mags: I think it's implausible simply because the porn DVDs I have seen recently have a few minutes of unskippable warnings and such when they start up, before you can even get to a menu.
Immediate hardcore, really?
Those menus are put on by the DVD manufacturer. They can easily be left off.
[ETA: And if the DVD wasn't meant for sale in the US, that warning at the beginning isn't required.]
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I once bought a Walkman-type cassette player at Wal-Mart, and not only did it not work, there was a tape in it. The clerk said it was probably a returned item that was inadvertently packaged and put back out for sale.
smitty"never did listen to the tape"kins
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That was my assumption when I read the first story, that the DVD player was returned with the video left in it, and was repackaged and put out for sale.
As for it playing as soon as it was turned on, the DVD software that came with my computer remembers the point where I stopped watching, and restarts the video at that point when I take the disk out and put it back in. Even with porn. My regular DVD player is fairly old, but do some newer DVD players have a similar feature, perhaps? Would they remember where the disk was last stopped, even after being unplugged?
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My mother bought a susposedly new phone, that had obviously been returned as faulty. Not only would it not work, but it had the previous owners answer phone messages still stored.
Nothing NSFBSK - but long personal messages, and a certain amount of domestic argument...
Actually we ( I was there to set up the things) found it so funny, it ALMOST made up for the hassle of having to return it. You would think people would be a bit more careful of there privacy when returning items.
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I wonder how many times this has happened to someone who just looked at the screen and said "Awesome! Free porn!!!"
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Did anyone else notice that they did show a picture of the label that was "too graphic to show"? Looks like the DVD was called "Super [blurred out] Sex Challenge" which googling shows to be "Super Slut Sex Challenge". I found some places selling it but no "reviews". Doesn't look like anything that would suggest the kids need counseling for seeing all of 30 seconds of it (i.e. extreme bondage/humiliation stuff). My three kids saw a snippet of porno once (I won't go into who was stupid enough to leave it in the DVD player!) they don't appear to carry any emotional scars from it.
In a completely irrelevant hijack, I ran over a box of porn on our vacation. I didn't notice in time that the car in front of me was swerving and went right over a cardboard box. I stopped and my husband got out to check for damage. He found a paper stuck to the undercarriage which appeared to be part of the cover of a hard-core porno magazine. There were a bunch of magazines all over the interstate. Luckily the car wasn't damaged!
quote:Originally posted by Major D. Saster: The story sounds plausible. Not everybody checks if there's a cassette, CD or DVD left in the device when they get rid of it. To take another example, one or two years ago, a (stupid) pedophile was arrested in Switzerland because he had sold his old computer, but had completely forgotten to erase all his kiddy-porn files. The shocked buyer just had to call the police.
That is how the singer Gary Glitter got caught. He took his computer in for repair and the technicians found kiddie porn. What a creep.
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quote:Originally posted by snoozn: Luckily the car wasn't damaged!
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So, no need to take it to see a psychiatrist, then?
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quote:when she got the DVD player home and hooked it up, it automatically started up and began immediately playing the hardcore parts of a porn DVD
This was the part that made me suspicious. Even if the DVD player had a feature that could remember where in the DVD it left off, even after being unplugged for God knows how long as it was repackaged, returned to the store, restocked, purchased, and brounght home to be installed, I have NEVER heard of a DVD player that just starts playing whatever's in it as soon as you plug it in! If this story has any basis in reality, I'm guessing the real story went something like this: Parent buys a DVD player, gets it home to set it up, and finds a pornographic DVD already inside it. Curious, the parent presses "Play," and begins to watch, thinking the kids have already gone to bed. Just then, Junior wanders into the room and gets an eyeful. Embarrassed and upset, the parent concocts a cock-and-bull story about the DVD randomly starting up in the middle of things, rather than admitting to having been watching it all the way up to that point, and perhaps even enjoying it. Because we all know good parents--indeed, good people--find sex and nudity absolutely repugnant, right?
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No one else has brought it up, but I find the PSP version of the story very hard to believe. UMDs don't really have any way for people to write their own disks.
Sony has been sitting on their technology to keep this kind of thing from happening. I'm not saying that it's entirely impossible for someone to figure out how to write their own UMD disk, but that it's extremely difficult.
However, it's possible that what was actually bought was some kind of pirate disc, though I'm not sure how often those show up in Walmart - ploy to get money perhaps?
The article mentioned that the disc was 'installed' to the PSP... I'm not sure if it's because that's what really happened or the article writer wasn't familiar with the system, but UMDs are not 'installed' to the PSP, you just play them like you would any console game. If it were a pirated CD-rom that supposedly had the game on it (which would make sense as to why it needed to be 'installed', via the computer and USB cord, given that UMDs cannot be written by outside influences), it's really the boy's father's fault.
Either that or he caught his son looking at porn on the internet via the PSP wi-fi browser and the kid made some lame excuse hoping the father wouldn't be familiar enough with the game system to know the difference. People have been making a big deal lately about how the PSP has internet capabilities and OMG there's PORN on the internet THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
DVD scenario = Plausible, especially with DVD burning, in which case you could potentially set porn to play immediately when the DVD player was turned on. PSP scenario = not so much.
Anyway I'll shut up now.
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quote:Originally posted by Missie: No one else has brought it up, but I find the PSP version of the story very hard to believe. UMDs don't really have any way for people to write their own disks.
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I had a TV once that was old, and the on/off switch broke. Had to unplug it to turn it off. If the DVD player turned on and began playing as soon as it was plugged in-- well, that could be the defect for which it was returned.
I also wouldn't put it past someone mad at WalMart to deliberately leave porn in a returned player.
But on the whole, this does look like a UL.
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I was wondering where that DVD went... Just kidding. It's at least a plausible scenario. Whether accidentental or deliberate, I can see a DVD being left in the playerr for any variety of reasons. Still, I doubt that a few seconds of porn should require therapy. Possibly that part was added to the UL to make for a better story?
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quote:the camera panned across the room to show a woman masturbating with the handle of a whip, various and assorted S&M bondage/punishment acts, enough sexual positions and variations to serve as a Kama Sutra primer, and, most notably (and most unforgettably -- years later, this image is still burned into my brain) a woman rubbing pancake batter onto her nether regions and sitting on a hot griddle. Keep in mind that this was within 45 seconds or so.
Holy cow! That sounds like the most amazing movie ever made -- especially considering that these images were shown at such rapid-fire speed. I can only imagine what the rest of the tape looked like. Do you happen to remember if this tape had a title?
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It might have been the start of the movie. My friend tells me that many porn movies start with a montage of some of the action to be found within.
quote:Originally posted by Esprise Me: I have NEVER heard of a DVD player that just starts playing whatever's in it as soon as you plug it in!
I don't know about plugging in, but if a DVD is in my DVD/VCR, it will begin playing the DVD as soon as the power is turned on. I don't like this feature, BTW.
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The coach of the high school girls basketball team in my town accidentally sent a porn tape in to college scouts instead of sending one of the player's tapes in...oops! Yeah, he was fired pretty quickly.
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Well, according to many people it wasn't a mistake. He did it intentionally because he didn't like the girl or her parents' whose tape he was supposed to send in. Of course who knows the real story. I didn't include it before, but I think that he may have been suspected of having "relationships" with a few of the girls on the team also, so that may have played into why he was fired.
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But if there was question about wether or not it was intentional, then the first option isn't to fire him, but rather to try and figure out the truth.
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Well, I'm not on the school board, and have never met the guy. I'm really not sure what the "true" story is behind the whole mess. Maybe the guy admitted that he did it on purpose? Who knows. I just shard the story because it fit in with the whole "accidental porno tape" subject.
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Christmas turned X-rated for a 14-year-old Utah boy who found pornography, not football, on a video game bought in Modesto.
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It wasn't a homemade tape, but rather a sort of compilation video with Korean writing on the label.
