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Dec 28 2006

Well, there’s your problem…

Posted at 11:00 am under Funny

The headline reads “Child’s New Computer Full of Porn.” It wasn’t full of porn, it just happened to open up to a porn website. Farbeit from the news to not be dramatic.

“On Christmas Day we set it up, hit Internet Explorer and the first thing to pop up was a porn site,” Rick Donaldson said. “That was a shocker.”

Joy Donaldson said what appeared was child pornography. The Donaldsons said they had to yell for their son to stay out of the room.

Rick Donaldson said he purchased the computer from a Comp USA store in Skokie, Ill. It was a floor model Donaldson bought at a discount, but the father never imagined that such content would be on the computer. He said the URL that appeared wasn’t just pornographic, but racist, too.

“It was very frustrating,” Joy Donaldson said.

As the Donaldsons tried to close the window, another popped open, inviting them to e-mail the site to a friend.

You set it up and then hit Internet Explorer? Tsk tsk tsk… (I know, smartasses… You have to do something to get online while you grab Firefox).

It cracks me up how suddenly everyone is buying floor models, everyone’s floor models are coming with stuff on them already, and everyone is so beyond outraged about it. Please. It was 3 seconds of porn. Go to a new URL and start over. Why does every person who manages to see some pr0n have to suddenly become uber-avengers and start crying to the media?

Anyway, CompUSA is feeling guilty so they offered up a $100 gift card for their troubles. The parents have now become causeheads…

“Our message to parents is that something like this can happen and make sure you’re the fist one to look at it,” he said.

Ya think? I’ve gotten exactly 1 computer from my parents in my life, and I know for a fact that they looked at it long before I ever saw it. You would think that a parent who bought a floor model from a major retail would’ve had the common sense to do the same, huh?

I don’t buy this story at all. I have a feeling the computer was set up and left alone, and the kid got into some pr0n, then mom and dad freaked because there’s no way their little boy would ever look at that sort of thing. Of course that’s just speculation, but that’s what I do.

Anyone else not buying this?

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One Response to “Well, there’s your problem…”

  1. Belf!!! Says:
    December 28th, 2006 at 5:49 pm

    I don’t know if I’d necessarily call Bravo Sierra on this. I just have to question the Dad’s common sense (or lack of, in this case). Why in the world would you buy a floor model computer and not check it before you let little Johnny get his hands on it? Has this guy never fooled around on a computer in a store? People do all kinds of shit to floor models (changing settings, visiting all kinds of sites, checking their email, etc). It’s all part of getting to know the machine.

    And I can do without the histrionics and handwringing from the parents and media. It’s just annoying and makes them all look like idiots.

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