Family complains about Christmas porn

modbee.com ^ | 12/28/2004 | associated press

[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.

[bedolido]

Don we now our gay apparel

[darkwing104]

You notice they didn't change the channel or turn the TV off.

[Just another Joe]

So they get a Christmas gift like this and then COMPLAIN?

[johniegrad]

Time Warner cannot review the tapes before they air

Huh?

[general_re]

You notice they didn't change the channel or turn the TV off.

Well, you want your complaint to be as detailed as possible, which means sitting through the whole thing. Obviously. How can you be outraged unless you know exactly how outraged you should be?

:^)

[dead]

"The 12 Lays of Christmas"
"Santa Claus is Coming"
"I Saw Mommy #*#*ing Santa Claus"
"Rudolph the Red-#*#*ed Reign Queer"

[jammer]

I suppose some people would consider it "porn", but a naked female, just standing there does not comport with any rational definition of "porn", Potter Stewart notwithstanding. Inappropriate, yes. Bad, probably. Porn, no.

[Lazamataz]

Umana's 15- and 17-year-old sons had left the room

Yer momma.

[shiva]

I can imagine a DUer turning on the TV for a porno and he gets a church program .....lol!

[Lazamataz]

a naked female, just standing there does not comport with any rational definition of "porn"

It does, however, comport with the definition of "invitation".

WHOO HOO WHOO HOO WHOO HOOOOOOO

[Tijeras_Slim]

a naked female, just standing there does not comport with any rational definition of "porn"

Would Helen Thomas be considered obscenity?

[bedolido]

porn is in the eye of the beholder. but to (loosely) quote Raymond: anything that "activates the launch sequence" can be called porn, but isn't that what it's all about?

[TomGuy]

Years ago, a similar report surfaced.

Viewers in a Flordia town who tuned their tv's to watch a religious program (Oral Roberts, IIRC), got a porn movie. In that instance, the operations center at the cable outlet forgot to switch satellites and a timed porn program showed up on the current satellite.

Frequently, the weekend crew or late night crew at broadcast stations put a porn tape in one of the station vcr's (for their own entertainment) while the regular movie or infomercials are playing. Sometimes the wrong switches get switched and the wrong movie/tape gets on-air time.

[commonguymd]

Now that was the funniest dang thing I heard today. I am still laughing.

[dog breath]

I know that if this had happened to me, I would be too busy taking notes about how offended and shocked I am to change the channel. :)

[jammer]

Slim, Helen fits mine, but then this morning Laz and I were discussing his attraction to goats on another thread. I don't think we can go as far as banning goats.

bedolido, that launch sequence is a funny phrase! But the criterion doesn't fit. For me, at 55, something really special, human or pharmaceutical is required. For a 17 year old normal male, a knot-hole in the fence initiates the launch sequence. Don't think that's porn. But thanks for the line.

[darkwing104]

I know that if this had happened to me, I would be too busy taking notes about how offended and shocked I am to change the channel. :)

Taking notes!...Do you have VCR?

[bedolido]

must one bring the face (and body) of Helen Thomas into a pure discussion of the feminine wiles and mistique.

Kinda like adding salt-peter to your viagra.

[dmz]

No, really. They went to their respective rooms to get the tapes rolling.

[Moonman62]

There's got to be a joke about stocking stuffers somewhere.