Wal-Mart Employee Demos TV With Porn

By Marcus Yam, published on September 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: , , , , | Themes: Home Theater
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It could be an interesting marketing technique...?

It's happened to all of us. We've walked into the television section of an electronics store and we see the same movie playing on all the displays and wishing that something better was on instead.

While we do realize the purpose of having the same image replicated over and over again so that customers can have the illusion of a fair comparison, we know better as the displays aren't all getting the same clean signal and are usually not calibrated to the same standard.

Two 20-year olds – one of which was an employee – looking to spice things up at their local Wal-Mart, however, ended up arrested on a felony obscenity complaint after using a pornographic DVD as demo material.

β€œThe pornographic DVD was visible to the general public as they were shopping,” according to a police report. The SW Times reports that a customer notified a manager before the DVD was removed.

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bogcotton 09/15/2009 11:53 PM
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That guy has serious balls!
Or no brain, take your pick.

yang 09/15/2009 11:56 PM
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these boys are heroes

charlesxuma 09/16/2009 12:00 PM
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HIGH DEFINITION HAIRY BALLS !!!! .... loool .... compare different layers of visible sweat !

Superwack 09/16/2009 12:03 PM
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welshmousepk 09/16/2009 12:03 PM
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ukcal 09/16/2009 12:09 PM
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I think what surprises me most in this article is the fact he has bought a porn DVD :p
Someone pays for it? :O

astrodudepsu 09/16/2009 12:17 PM
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This certainly isn't the dumbest thing ever done by a 20 year old. I know a few guys from college that would have done this. Kudos to them.

cybrcatter 09/16/2009 12:18 PM
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bustapr 09/16/2009 12:24 PM
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cybrcatter :
HA! But how is this story pertinent to this website?


Porn is pertinent to this website.
Almost every week theres an obscene/porn article here.

eskimo_1 09/16/2009 12:27 PM
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TheDraac 09/16/2009 12:31 PM
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Oooooh, Extreme closeup.... hmmmm
Those colors ARE lifelike.....
I'll take 2 please. To watch my football games. Makes the grass look greener.... :)

tayb 09/16/2009 12:31 PM
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welshmousepk :
becuase sex is evil and wrong, and anyone who witnessed will die and go to hell. thank god these men were arrested before someone over-reacted. /fail



/fail on your part. There are young children in Walmart. If you had a child or even knew any children you wouldn't even consider popping in a porno and letting them watch. You think a five year old girl should be seeing some guy getting his dick sucked? You are an idiot.

There is a time and a place for a prank like this but in a Walmart with children around doesn't fit the bill.

ta152h 09/16/2009 12:34 PM
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The remarks here show pretty frighteningly how stupid the average reader is.

Someone thinks they are so important, and so cool, that they break societal laws, offend people, and possibly subject their employer to lawsuits, and people think they're great people and deserve credit?

That's self-indulgent stupidity. It's not cool, maybe a little funny, but it's just people not caring about others, being offensive, and wanting attention. It's not even clever; everyone's thought about it. This is not the making of a hero, or worth anything more than contempt.

People have always been stupid, at least a lot of them. Now they get to post on forums. I doubt this is progress.

welshmousepk 09/16/2009 12:38 PM
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its fine for the tv screens at wal mart to show people getting killed left right and center (yes, thye do show that).

i find it ridiculous that we as a society feel the need to 'protect' our children from sex, yet allow them to see gratuitious violence and remorseless killing on day time TV.

no wonder kids are getting pregnant and beating each other up all the time.

mr_tuel 09/16/2009 12:44 PM
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What's worse: the violence on everyday TV, or someone's penis?

tayb 09/16/2009 12:50 PM
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Well, considering TV violence is below that of a PG-13 movie I'm going to go with porno.

welshmousepk 09/16/2009 12:56 PM
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and thats where this strange point of view i cannot understand comes from.

because you remove the blood, it is okay for a child to watch?
the fact that a person is stil killing, without remorse or emotion, is fine as long as there is no red stuff?

but sex, of course must be hidden away. nevermind it is a normal part of every single persons life.
we all grow up to have sex, but we do not all grow up to kill people. it confuses me that people take such a strange point of view.

virtualban 09/16/2009 1:02 AM
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Still, just a DVD? What about true blue ray HD?

apache_lives 09/16/2009 1:02 AM
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never seen... "THOSE" so highly defined @_@

blazeorangeman 09/16/2009 1:22 AM
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(oYo)

boobies in ASCII

Anonymous 09/16/2009 1:33 AM
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If you were a REAL parent you wouldn't let your kid roam loose in Walmart...so assuming your kid was actually by your side you could steer them away from the loud moans emanating from the AV section right?

The FELONY charges these poor pranksters are facing are typical hypocritical fascist-lazy parenting-religious maniac zealotry.

the_one111 09/16/2009 2:27 AM
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mr_tuel :
What's worse: the violence on everyday TV, or someone's penis?


What's worse? Well It seems people were forced to watch this. I was under the impression you can turn your TV off.

That and I could argue porn and violence don't have the same effects (which they DON'T) So..

Did you even think this statement through...at all?

ssddx 09/16/2009 2:36 AM
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concerned citizen... +1 for effort.

If parents would actually give a damn then there wouldn't be such a big fuss about tv violence, druge use, and sex. Most parents would rather let the rating systems protect their children for them. I suppose I'm a rarity in that my parents discussed such topics with me as a child. As such, they really didnt mind what I saw. There is no way that a parent is going to prevent a child from seeing violence, drug use, sexual acts, and hearing profane words. Any person can speak out that the kids and posters are immoral pigs, however it takes real balls to actually speak with your children on such matters.

I'll admit this: it was a bit immature to play porn on the walmart tvs. However, realize that they are still rather young and did not give much thought to their actions. It is not the end of the world. Being brought up on charges probably also has them witless. In any case, think on the bright side.. bad press for walmart.

Anonymous 09/16/2009 2:39 AM
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Maybe if the porn industry were able to edit the white human fluid out of their product it could also make day time TV....... PBS here we cum.

soldier37 09/16/2009 2:53 AM
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Should have used a blu ray, DVD is soo yesterday! But he was 20 and worked at walmart so I guess he can't afford a blu ray. Poor judgement with kids around though. Now he is ruined for life with a felony. Lesson learned!

Kingssman 09/16/2009 3:04 AM
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Ummmm This thread going way off topic about issues of porn industry et al, that i think we are forgetting that this is a Major Corporation selling a product with Huge face value and a Code Of Company Conduct was broken which embarrassed the company and upset customers, thus the uproar.
Getting Fired, logical course of action, getting arrested, ooooo burn that sucks. Course you don't go showing porn to a minor (says so in the law books) and Walmart has minors. In fact if its like most stores, the children's cloths are right across the isle as well as the baby stuff.
*Former wal-mart employee, I wasn't allowed to showcase any movie other than something rated G. There are times where I went to a manager to show something PG like Pirates of the Caribbean and even then I considered it a public risk

hakesterman 09/16/2009 3:11 AM
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What i want to know is if any of the customers asked " Where do i find that movie? "

njkid3 09/16/2009 3:24 AM
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tacoslave 09/16/2009 3:36 AM
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maybe they wanted to show the customer 90% of whats gonna be watched on that tv anyways.

Anonymous 09/16/2009 3:40 AM
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tayb: I assume you'd still be cool with showing children a movie where people are getting killed, or letting kids play very violent video games. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with 2 consenting adults having sex, maybe this country would be better off if we stopped demonizing that kind of behaviour, and started demonizing violence instead.

I personally dislike kids and don't want any, but if I ever wind up having one, I'm never telling him/her that Santa, The Tooth Fairy or Jesus are real, and I'll try to teach him/her that violence is NOT cool, but other than that, let them see the entire world and pass his/her own judgement, rather than sheltering him/her, just so he/she can just go bat-shit crazy when he/she/it goes off to college.

starryman 09/16/2009 4:05 AM
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