PITY THE CHILDREN
Courtesy of ABC affiliate KTRK TV (and travelsizedoug), this entertaining story:
Mother upset over porn in brand new DVD player
by Jessica Willey
3/30/06 - CLEVELAND, TX - A Cleveland area mother is outraged and offended after getting more than what she paid for at a local Wal-Mart store.
Shelley Bettis say she's now forced to answer questions she was not ready to answer because her children saw things they were too young to see. She bought a DVD player, but also got pornography.
Bettis and her three children just wanted to watch Bambi II Tuesday afternoon, but before Shelley could load the DVD in the new Apex player she had just bought, something else popped up on the screen, and it was a far cry from Bambi.
"I don't even want to tell you what I saw," said Bettis.
Already inside the player, Shelly says, was a DVD. The label was so graphic that we can't even show it to you. The material on it is pornography.
From the sound of this woman, I'm not so sure she could tell us what she saw. But this already strikes me as a bit bogus. A new DVD player with a disc inside set to some sort of autoplay and already cued up to a graphic sex scene? I seriously doubt it. If this is actually true, I wish my porno disks could automatically leap to a money shot, bypassing all of the FBI warnings and trailers and menus and studio logos and credits and "exposition". As this was a labelled disc (and not a home-burned bit of entertainment), are we to believe that a bottom-of-the-line DVD player has the ability to jump to a scene mid-sex-act simply by plugging the thing in? Pull the third one.
"I was floored," she said. "I felt my heart hit the ground that my children had to see that. I was disgusted."
All three of her children, the youngest just eight years old, saw the first few seconds of the DVD before Shelley lunged for the player to turn it off. Thirteen-year-old Taylor watched sex acts she didn't even know about.
"It's very gross," said Taylor. "I saw body parts I've never seen before."
There are body parts that a thirteen-year-old has never seen? This is a girl who's probably been menstruating for a year or so and she's had that little sex ed? What kind of household is this? But wait a minute. These four people saw "the first few seconds" of video before Wonder Woman leapt across the room in a single bound and killed it - yet they saw sex acts, plural? Sure, lady. In "the first few seconds", I'm surprised they saw body parts, plural.
Shelley bought the $34 player at a Cleveland Wal-Mart and says the box it came in had not been tampered with.
In a statement, Wal-Mart apologizes and says, "We are thoroughly investigating the matter at this time."
No one at Apex, the manufacturer, returned our calls.
In a home where the focus is on faith and morals, the wrong purchase, Bettis says, stole her children's innocence.
"For them to see what they seen, it's not right," she said.
If you ask me, it's about bloody time something was done to their "innocence" (or what we used to call ignorance). If you continue asking me, I'd say that being raised by a woman who can't even speak her first language properly is probably far more damaging than a few seconds worth of people making love. That ain't raght. Maybe it's just the grim images conjured by this home "where the focus is on faith and morals", but this whole thing reminds me of one of Piper Laurie's more over-the-top scenes from Carrie: "Witch! Got Satan's Power! I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home! We'll pray, we'll pray, we'll pray! We'll pray for the last time! We'll pray!"
Wal-Mart encourages Shelley to return the DVD player to the store for a full refund. In the meantime, Bettis is now exploring her legal options and also plans to have her daughters see a counselor.
Yeah, get the kids to a counselor by all means - but have them start by dealing with children raised in such a suffocatingly restrictive, paranoid, and avaricious atmosphere.
Frankly, I suspect that the kids didn't see a damned thing. I suspect the mother discovered the disc (possibly in the DVD player - though just as possibly in her husband's sock drawer), viewed it at her leisure to make sure there was something suitably "disgusting", then started planning her lawsuit, having coached her poor innocents in being traumatized. After all, this is a moral Texas household. I wish her luck - and hope she isn't even awarded costs.
If I weren't boycotting Wal-Mart in the first place, I'd be very tempted to go pick up one of these bargain basement DVD players. If the free porn is as good as this psychopathic hag is indicating, that alone would be worth the cost.
Mother upset over porn in brand new DVD player
by Jessica Willey
3/30/06 - CLEVELAND, TX - A Cleveland area mother is outraged and offended after getting more than what she paid for at a local Wal-Mart store.
Shelley Bettis say she's now forced to answer questions she was not ready to answer because her children saw things they were too young to see. She bought a DVD player, but also got pornography.
Bettis and her three children just wanted to watch Bambi II Tuesday afternoon, but before Shelley could load the DVD in the new Apex player she had just bought, something else popped up on the screen, and it was a far cry from Bambi.
"I don't even want to tell you what I saw," said Bettis.
Already inside the player, Shelly says, was a DVD. The label was so graphic that we can't even show it to you. The material on it is pornography.
From the sound of this woman, I'm not so sure she could tell us what she saw. But this already strikes me as a bit bogus. A new DVD player with a disc inside set to some sort of autoplay and already cued up to a graphic sex scene? I seriously doubt it. If this is actually true, I wish my porno disks could automatically leap to a money shot, bypassing all of the FBI warnings and trailers and menus and studio logos and credits and "exposition". As this was a labelled disc (and not a home-burned bit of entertainment), are we to believe that a bottom-of-the-line DVD player has the ability to jump to a scene mid-sex-act simply by plugging the thing in? Pull the third one.
"I was floored," she said. "I felt my heart hit the ground that my children had to see that. I was disgusted."
All three of her children, the youngest just eight years old, saw the first few seconds of the DVD before Shelley lunged for the player to turn it off. Thirteen-year-old Taylor watched sex acts she didn't even know about.
"It's very gross," said Taylor. "I saw body parts I've never seen before."
There are body parts that a thirteen-year-old has never seen? This is a girl who's probably been menstruating for a year or so and she's had that little sex ed? What kind of household is this? But wait a minute. These four people saw "the first few seconds" of video before Wonder Woman leapt across the room in a single bound and killed it - yet they saw sex acts, plural? Sure, lady. In "the first few seconds", I'm surprised they saw body parts, plural.
Shelley bought the $34 player at a Cleveland Wal-Mart and says the box it came in had not been tampered with.
In a statement, Wal-Mart apologizes and says, "We are thoroughly investigating the matter at this time."
No one at Apex, the manufacturer, returned our calls.
In a home where the focus is on faith and morals, the wrong purchase, Bettis says, stole her children's innocence.
"For them to see what they seen, it's not right," she said.
If you ask me, it's about bloody time something was done to their "innocence" (or what we used to call ignorance). If you continue asking me, I'd say that being raised by a woman who can't even speak her first language properly is probably far more damaging than a few seconds worth of people making love. That ain't raght. Maybe it's just the grim images conjured by this home "where the focus is on faith and morals", but this whole thing reminds me of one of Piper Laurie's more over-the-top scenes from Carrie: "Witch! Got Satan's Power! I should've given you to God when you were born, but I was weak and backsliding, and now the devil has come home! We'll pray, we'll pray, we'll pray! We'll pray for the last time! We'll pray!"
Wal-Mart encourages Shelley to return the DVD player to the store for a full refund. In the meantime, Bettis is now exploring her legal options and also plans to have her daughters see a counselor.
Yeah, get the kids to a counselor by all means - but have them start by dealing with children raised in such a suffocatingly restrictive, paranoid, and avaricious atmosphere.
Frankly, I suspect that the kids didn't see a damned thing. I suspect the mother discovered the disc (possibly in the DVD player - though just as possibly in her husband's sock drawer), viewed it at her leisure to make sure there was something suitably "disgusting", then started planning her lawsuit, having coached her poor innocents in being traumatized. After all, this is a moral Texas household. I wish her luck - and hope she isn't even awarded costs.
If I weren't boycotting Wal-Mart in the first place, I'd be very tempted to go pick up one of these bargain basement DVD players. If the free porn is as good as this psychopathic hag is indicating, that alone would be worth the cost.