Unintentional Porn Atop Holiday Gift Lists
from the wrong-kind-of-tight-end dept
You might remember our earlier story about the mother in Chicago who'd bought her kid a Zune for Christmas, only to find it full of gay porn. She wasn't alone in discovering that her holiday presents weren't what they seemed: a South Carolina woman says a toy phone she bought for her kid utters obscenities, while a kid in Utah says the Madden 07 video game he got from his uncle for Christmas features porn instead. The stories both feature the standard questionable circumstances (like the unnamed "obscenity" the phone makes, and a 14-year-old boy who tells his parents he's got some hardcore porn), with some grandstanding for added benefit. In the Madden case, the kid's dad says "somebody needs to be held accountable," and an investigator from the Utah Attorney General's office says they're trying to find the responsible party so they can hit them with charges of providing pornography to a minor. That might be sort of hard, since the game was bought in California and only traveled into the state when the kid's uncle gave it to him, perhaps making him as responsible as anybody -- but who cares about trivial matters like the law and jurisdictional concerns when you can take advantage of a slow news week to make it clear you're protecting the children? In any case, perhaps "no, it might have porn on it" is becoming the modern version of "you'll shoot your eye out."
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Mike...
Quit letting Carlo post this banal crap!
All you're doing is giving the trolls ammo and turning off readers.
BTW, a lack of punctiuation and and the inability the piece together continuous thoughts do NOT constitute a writing style. (More of a lack thereof.)
Happy New Year, Carlo.
Now learn to write drafts before you post articles, or go get a real job.
SOAPBOX
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Re: Mike...
Strange... your post seems like exactly what you're complaing about. I'll give you one thing though, it perfectly fits your name Mr. Bastard.
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Utah...
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say no to bootlegs for xmas
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The current version of "I didn't put that there!"
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Utah
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Banal Crap.....
Shame on you and the publishers who let this fly.
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U not punny
You make baby jesus cry
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Overreacting
Does gay p0rn consist of guys kissing, or more?
Were the obscenities uniformly considered obscenities, or was that just her opinion (‘dang’)?
Since when is buying copied games legal? And hopefully the uncle is also being charged if it was a copied game. Then again, maybe stealing is considered a better modal for a child over viewing p0rn.
We need the whole story before we make assumptions, but like always, we’re never given the full details.
1. There are two sides to every coin.
2. Never Assume.
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Re: Overreacting
they also said bought in california.
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Re: Re: Overreacting
So the game disk was inserted into a computer...
So, was the bought disk a 'copy?' If so, Illegal copy, and a mod chip used on the consol. Not the topic, and I couldn't really care less, but a point.
But let's ASSUME that it was bought by the Uncle from a vendor used and/or opened, and with a recreation cd sticker on it. My other points hold.
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assuming
This all sounds like sensational bullshit to me. I see an attorney in the future for this family. It will cost big bucks to pay for therapy to help the child recover from this life altering experience.
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You sir are a imbecile
In the future, please help all of us, and ask someone to review your crayon notes. It would be even better if you just mailed them to yourself. It will be a pleasant surprise for you, and we do not have to read it.
Good bye techdirt.com - I rather poke my eyes out with a broken plastic fork then read this sort of twaddle.
techdirt - did you actually pay for this?
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anyone think the uncle messed up???
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1 out of 5mill. Sounds like BS to me.
"The game appears to be authentic, is embossed with a Madden NFL 07 label and came in a factory-sealed case, Linda Mahoney said." Also from same article
OK even if it did have all these things how could it have been made from the factory? They do not have the setup to make porn. There machines do not pump that out. Circuit city doesnt have the setup to do these things ether.
I agree with the kid hiding his porno and got caught. By now I bet the parents know they just don't want to be embarrassed nationally
as for the cell phone spouting sex insted of six, has any one ever taken apart some of these toys? I bet its realy 90 cents worth of electronics. That dousn't buy a good speaker. ever try to spell something over a phone? and that has better electronics.
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wow
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