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Posted on 05/02/2007 1:32:11 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
MIDDLETOWN, New Jersey: A cable television company is investigating just how children in some New Jersey homes ended up watching hardcore pornography when they tuned into a popular cartoon program on the Disney Channel.
Paul Dunleavy, a Middletown, New Jersey, subscriber to cable giant Comcast, was stunned Tuesday morning to find his 5-year-old son watching something other than "Handy Manny," a cartoon show about a bilingual Latino handyman, Manny Garcia, and his talking tools.
"It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on and it was disgusting," the Middletown father of three told The New York Daily News newspaper for its Wednesday editions.
"I couldn't believe it," he said. "We try to do the right thing to protect our kids from this stuff, and then they broadcast it on children's TV."
Dunleavy's phone number was unlisted when The Associated Press tried to contact him Wednesday.
Comcast spokesman Fred DeAndrea confirmed the programming error occurred around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. He described it as an "isolated issue in a local New Jersey facility."
"We automatically detected the issue and it was corrected promptly. We apologize to any customer who experienced an issue yesterday morning," said DeAndrea, who said the mistake was made by his company, not Disney.
DeAndrea declined to provide the duration of the pornography broadcast, how many homes it reached, how the mistake happened and whether anyone will be disciplined for the X-rated error.
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Tyler Durden says: "Well Done!!!"
WWTDD? (What Would Tyler Durden Do?)
I gotta start watching morning cartoons more often....
I’ve picked up radio signals in Mexico, from small FM stations, some repeater towers and a fluke. Mexico never knew how it happened. These things happen, unfortunately, maybe a good law suit will keep the Disney channel tuned to just Donald Duck
Yeah, it started with Gay Days at Disneyland.
and a fluke
from a whale? good find.
Look for a disgruntled Comcast employee, or perhaps a New Jersey labor dispute.
Skip, radio signals bouncing off the ionosphere.
Just about as in your face as you can get.
“it was full-on and it was disgusting,” ‘
If it isn’t disgusting, you aren’t doing it right.
I’ve found the programming from Disney & their network ABC to be obscene for a long time now.
Comcast employee watching the old in-out during break. Comcast customer service is so good.?!
I recall visiting Skaggs Telecommunications in Salt Lake City years ago and seeing the guys in the control room watching porn on the monitor. That facility carried a backup signal for Disney, along with others. I can see how hitting the wrong switch could happen!
If this only happened in one market, it would not be a Disney issue. The problem would be in the local cable provider putting the wrong feed on that channel. Maybe a mistake, maybe a prank, maybe a disgruntled employee?
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