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Child's MP3 Gift Preloaded With Porn
KCTV5 ^ | December 27, 2007

Posted on 12/28/2007 4:45:25 AM PST by Tai_Chung

The family of a 10-year-old girl who received an MP3 video player for Christmas was shocked when it found the player was loaded with explicit songs and pornographic movie clips.

Cookeville resident Daryl Hill said his daughter was thrilled to find that Santa had left an MP3 player under the tree -- until she turned it on.

"Within 10 minutes, my daughter was crying," Hill told Nashville, Tenn., TV station WSMV.

There were video clips of XXX-rated sex scenes and the pornography on the player.

"I wish I could take the thoughts and images out of her head," said Hill.

The Hills had bought three MP3 players for their children that came from a Wal-Mart store in Sparta, Tenn. It turns out one of the MP3 players had been returned to the store from a previous owner who loaded sex clips, graphic war scenes and lyrics about using drugs.

The Hills want to know why Wal-Mart would sell used merchandise as new in the first place, which is in violation of its own policies.

"If they want to be a major retailer, they need to act like it," said Hill.

The manager at the Sparta Wal-Mart declined comment on the matter and referred WSMV to Wal-Mart's corporate office.

A Wal-Mart representative e-mailed WSMV confirming that stores are not supposed to return opened packages to the sales floor. They said they are working to get to the bottom of the problem.

The Hills said they have declined Wal-Mart's offer to replace the MP3 player. They've already bought their daughter a new one and are hanging onto the controversial one until they talk to a lawyer.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: badsanta; mp3; porn; walmart
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To: discostu
There’s no way you can reshelve those in a way that the customer won’t know it’s been opened.

If you're even slightly above incoherent, you can easily tell it's been returned and therefore should check it out before you leave the store...

61 posted on 12/28/2007 5:55:25 AM PST by logic (Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE conservative candidate!!)
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To: Tai_Chung
Wal Mart does rebox, I had a customer that needed a replacement DVD/VCR they called me at 6PM and needed it up and running by 7:30 AM so I ran in Wally World to pick one up to get them going. The box was sealed, when I opened it the unit was covered in dust, did not have all the cables and the battery door was even missing from the remote. BTW: When they broke for lunch I already had the permanent replacement to put in.

Wal Mart did take it back

62 posted on 12/28/2007 5:59:39 AM PST by sticker
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To: snippy_about_it

***In my experience the BBB is nothing but an agency that promotes you as good if you pay them***

They helped me as a purchaser of an expensive item which was faulty.


63 posted on 12/28/2007 6:01:58 AM PST by kitkat (I refuse to let the DUers chase me off FR.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

If we keep this up, I bet we could Hijack this thing


64 posted on 12/28/2007 6:03:19 AM PST by SShultz460 (If peace is the answer; it must be a stupid question.)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

lol!


65 posted on 12/28/2007 6:05:56 AM PST by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: SShultz460

I dunno - you can into a lot of trouble with kitty porn.


66 posted on 12/28/2007 6:07:16 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Bush is destroying the solar system:The ice caps on Mars are shrinking too." --Right_Wing_Madman)
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To: Slings and Arrows

troof


67 posted on 12/28/2007 6:07:56 AM PST by SShultz460 (If peace is the answer; it must be a stupid question.)
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To: Tai_Chung
A Liberal's idea of humor. . .

This is sad; and imgages in the mind have their own 'virtual reality'.

68 posted on 12/28/2007 6:07:56 AM PST by cricket
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To: Slings and Arrows
No kitten!


69 posted on 12/28/2007 6:09:07 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Zechariah11

Ya think? I don’t know. . .not a good scam. . .and even if the ‘timeline’ is off by five minutes; surely time for ‘harm done’. . .even a minute or two, harm done. . .


70 posted on 12/28/2007 6:09:16 AM PST by cricket
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To: cricket

Certainly, there’d be harm done to the child. No one is saying otherwise. My attention is on the scenario of this Mp3 getting resealed, then getting charged, and put under the tree, the child navigating to the video menu, finding the video , and watching it for ten minutes, before anything unusual is discovered.


71 posted on 12/28/2007 6:24:41 AM PST by Zechariah11
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To: DeLaine; Zechariah11

I’ve held my laughter, but I’ve thrown a lot of folks out of my office who brought in frivolous matters. This would have been one of those. “Just demand your money back and don’t shop there any more. That will be $50.00. Please see the receptionist on your way out.”


72 posted on 12/28/2007 6:28:10 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido

Good for you!!!


73 posted on 12/28/2007 6:30:42 AM PST by DeLaine (Ah socialism. It is so hard to make it work just so.)
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To: poobear
I’d like to examine the father’s computer.
My thoughts exactly. I wonder if the day played with it beforehand.
74 posted on 12/28/2007 6:40:14 AM PST by mtairycitizen
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To: Tai_Chung

Re-selling returned items is common at Wal-Mart and Sam’s stores.


75 posted on 12/28/2007 6:43:16 AM PST by em2vn
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To: Tai_Chung
"I wish I could take the thoughts and images out of her head," said Hill.

Suing for millions will help start the healing process.
76 posted on 12/28/2007 6:46:00 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: driftdiver
Fortunately he’s never had one of these extra special MP3 players

A boy wouldn't have told his parents about the special version.

77 posted on 12/28/2007 6:46:17 AM PST by ASA Vet
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To: Tai_Chung

Leave out the porn, keep the videos of our guys killing Jihadis.


78 posted on 12/28/2007 6:47:37 AM PST by wastedyears (Merry Christmas, FReepers)
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To: Tai_Chung

Why would anyone buy an mp3 already loaded? With today’s ‘music’, there is just no way I would do that.


79 posted on 12/28/2007 6:47:40 AM PST by mathluv
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To: mtairycitizen

With an iPod, downloads from the computer to the the Mp3 are automatically transferred as soon as you hook up the cable. Hence, if someone wanted to preload the girl’s Mp3 with a favorite song, all of the other digital selections on the computer would come along for the ride.


80 posted on 12/28/2007 6:50:19 AM PST by Zechariah11
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