Posted on 12/30/2004 6:15:25 AM PST by bedolido
KENMORE, Ohio (AP) - A northeast Ohio family hoping to see choirs perform holiday music on Christmas morning instead saw adult programming on the local public access television station. "I turn it to Channel 15 and there's this naked lady on the screen - I mean full-frontal, get-the-hell-out-of-here pornography," said David Umana. "When I tell about Christmas 2004, I'm betting this will be one of my best stories."
Umana's 15- and 17-year-old sons had left the room about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, but he and his wife, Karen, saw the porn and called Time Warner Cable to complain.
Chris Thomas, the cable company's director of government affairs, believes the wrong tape was put in a machine set to play that morning. A church program was scheduled, he said.
"I don't think the church group submitted that," Thomas said.
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No kidding! Who wouldn't like "A Very Special Porno XXXMas?"
a naked female, just standing there does not comport with any rational definition of "porn"
Would Helen Thomas be considered obscenity?
Actually there is nothing in the article to suggest that they viewed it for more than an instant before realizing unwanted porn was being fed into their living room - albeit at a channel and time that the cable company admits should not have contained porn.
Why are you pointing fingers at the couple?
Where is the part that says he waited to see the "money shot" just to be sure it was porn, before he complained? /humor
Not pointing the finger at anyone. Just making an observation
The problem is that you manufactured this "observation": the couple saw the "get-the-hell-out-of-here pornography" and apparently got the porn the hell off their TV.
Your comment - which it total conjecture - implies they continued to watch the porn show before complaining.
Oh, but it is a funny thread.
OK...Prove it
Actually, in a local TV interview the wife claimed she immediately turned it off. It just comes down to their word, the rest is conjecture. But I guess there's been a problem in the past with this local access channel. I don't get that one on my cable. Oh well...
It doesn't state that in the article.
I am reminded of a Dennis Miller quipt "Let us with a free hand cast the first stone".
SPL (the Salacious Ping List) ping.
If you want on or off the list let me know.
Whoa...I was just letting you know what I saw on TV. Thought you might be interested, that's all.
No Problem...Thanks
We three Kinks? ;-)
very punny :)
You made the wild and false allegation against these people, and you got called on it - you have the burden of proof.
I don't have to prove something that wasn't printed. No allegations, just an observation from the facts that were presented in the article. It's called analysis.
You were the only one to read something into it. In basic psychology it's a sign of guilt for something on your part.
I ,in turn, asked you to prove something you cannot prove...Deal with it.
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