Returned DAP gets resold with loads of porn

We've seen returned / resold DAPs (among other things) ruin celebrations before, but we're inclined to say that this episode is a tad more disheartening than receiving a couple of rock-filled iPod boxes. Reportedly, an unspecified MP3 player purchased in a Tennessee Wal-Mart was wrapped and given as a Christmas present to a 10-year old daughter, but upon connecting said player to a computer, heaps of pornographic material and explicit songs were discovered. According to a Wally World spokesperson, stores aren't supposed to "return opened packages to the sales floor," but given that it already happened, the matter will purportedly be "investigated."

[Via TGDaily]

[John @ Dec 28th 2007 10:34PM]

ho ho ho, kiddies.

[Kurt MacD @ Dec 29th 2007 12:32AM]

Awe Come on we all watch pr0n and listen to filthy rap, everyone has or does.

[SteveMB @ Dec 29th 2007 1:11AM]

Kurt: I can agree to the first part, but not the latter.

[Dean Marano @ Dec 28th 2007 10:37PM]

lucky.

[blaktornado @ Dec 30th 2007 9:38AM]

Would be funny if it turned out to be gay porn :P

You probably wouldn't be saying that then!

[blade417 @ Dec 31st 2007 8:39AM]

BACKDOOR SLUTS 9?!?!

[Mike @ Dec 28th 2007 10:39PM]

The horror, the horror..

[Sukhminder @ Dec 29th 2007 1:46AM]

Won't anyone think of the Children?! - Helen Lovejoy

[Backlin @ Dec 28th 2007 10:46PM]

I heard something almost EXACTLY like this last year...

[TomTom2007 @ Dec 28th 2007 10:48PM]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/walmarts-zunes-now-with-more-porn/2

seriously people... hide your porn...geesh...

[Jacob @ Dec 28th 2007 11:57PM]

@Backlin: Your not the only one

@TomTom: Thanks for the link saved me going out to find that exact article

Seems to me to be a dupe from last year with even less details and the daughter labeled 2 years younger for the shock factor

[Bravo @ Dec 29th 2007 10:48PM]

I hit up the Link and the irony(however u spell it)is that there was a zune add.

[Fernando G. @ Dec 28th 2007 10:46PM]

time to go to walmart

[Jason Cox @ Dec 28th 2007 10:53PM]

Mom must have bought the MP3 player in question because Dad would have kept it.

[Jon Martin @ Dec 28th 2007 10:54PM]

Like heck Wally World does not put things back on the shelf. I at one time had a really sick kid, so I picked up a cheap DVD player, switchbox & cable at a local Walmart so he could watch movies in his room. The DVD player was in parts and missing the remote, the switchbox had reglued packaging, and the only thing that worked was the cables. I was displeased and phoned in a complaint to the corporate office. My understanding was that the store manager was not happy - wether it had been because they leaned on her or that she got caught and was told to use more stealth.

[aaron @ Dec 28th 2007 11:13PM]

Whoops. My Bad.

[Dragod @ Dec 28th 2007 11:16PM]

Damn... People can't keep it in their pants long enough to get home, so they put it on their MP3 player?

[DarkLightConnection @ Dec 28th 2007 11:24PM]

I can keep it 'til I get home, but I have no PC on my room... so my palm is loaded with p0rn :-D

[Mobius_1 @ Dec 28th 2007 11:51PM]

@ Darklightconnection

I think that was a rhetorical question highlighting a problem with today's society, and btw... we really don't need to know... :)

[Abuzar @ Dec 28th 2007 11:22PM]

See now if that was a boy he would enjoy it more.

[Daniel @ Dec 29th 2007 6:39AM]

I thought the same thing until I remembered this article from last year:

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/31/xxx-madden-gag-spoils-kids-xmas/

[Kido1986 @ Dec 29th 2007 2:55PM]

Thats definitely not Madden.

[Jacqueline @ Dec 28th 2007 11:35PM]

Gah, DarklightConnection! Just GAH!

So, the real question should be how much of the porn was transferred to a computer before the mp3 player was returned?

[chainofcommand02 @ Dec 29th 2007 12:43AM]

The player was a RCA model of some sort. Here's a local news station's story:

http://www.wbir.com/news/regional/story.aspx?storyid=52867

[TMF @ Dec 29th 2007 3:46AM]

There's proof that these people don't know what they're doing. They bought an RCA device.

[Navi Thach @ Dec 29th 2007 12:58AM]

So much for being the company social conservatives look up to...

[SteveMB @ Dec 29th 2007 1:13AM]

Here we go again :rolls eyes:

[tsubikiddo @ Dec 29th 2007 1:38AM]

oh lucky...oops, i mean, poor girl...

[AJ in the East Bay @ Dec 29th 2007 1:40AM]

The report at WBIR.com indicates that the girl cried when she found the videos. I don't know, what does everyone think? Would a 10-year old girl cry because she found porn?

[SteveMB @ Dec 29th 2007 1:59AM]

Nope. I smell BS. I think that they put the pr0n on their and are blaming Walmart. Then they will sue them and win money.

[Anthony @ Dec 29th 2007 2:20AM]

There is a video on CNN and honestly I don't think this guy could figure out how to do load it full of porn let alone install the batteries.

From the report on the kind of stuff on the player it could make a 10 year old upset. Especially if she was raised as a God fearing child. That isn't an underhanded comment mind you, just trying to let you guys understand how someone might not be "Oh thats neat!"

As for them going after Walmart for money, as I said I don't think they are that smart to try a scam like this, and if they were the bigger legal team from Walmart would chew them up and spit them out. If I was a father, that puts the emotional spin into it of being pissed off that you let your daughter down on the holidays and handed her a device full of things you'd ideally hope she'd never see/do/whatever. As a consumer I'd be even more pissed off that they sold me an open item as new. I'm typically very much against lawsuits, especially stupid ones, but if this brings out into the open another bad practice from Walmart than I'm all for it to hopefully get that stopped.

I'm guessing this was either an employee thinking it would be funny or a kid that bought some of them and returned them "unopened" later as a joke.

[Glenn @ Dec 29th 2007 9:59AM]

CNN VIDEO LINK:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/12/28/amons.mp3.player.porn.wsmv?iref=videosearch

[Marco Emerson @ Dec 29th 2007 2:31AM]

Welcome to the social.

[mmh @ Dec 29th 2007 4:09AM]

Thanks daddy, it's what I've always wanted!

[Baba Booey @ Dec 29th 2007 3:40PM]

As long as it wasn't meatspin.

[freakmarket @ Dec 29th 2007 8:52AM]

That's what happens when you pay people $6 per hour ... that's not enuff to care.

[OceanFan @ Dec 29th 2007 12:43PM]

i second that.

[Jonathan-DBOSS @ Dec 29th 2007 10:37AM]

Merry Xmas!

[Jhongerkong @ Dec 30th 2007 1:14AM]

more like XXXmas

[dee-dee-deetarded @ Dec 29th 2007 11:19AM]

Now, honey, how long did you let brother try out your new present?

[AlexP @ Dec 29th 2007 11:31AM]

You guys are late on the one liners.

[KC @ Dec 29th 2007 11:36AM]

I'm surprised the girl told her parents before inviting all her friends over to see it.... guess it wasn't as interesting as the stuff she's already seen on the net or downloaded to her mobile to think it was worth inviting the girls over for a viewing.

In this day and age a 10 year old girl is unlikely to freak out over porn.

Only parent freak about girls seeing porn these days.

Plus, the only reason it made CNN was that a girl was the "victim". If it was a 10 year old buy we wouldn't even be talking about this because no one would have found it news worthy because he'd be viewed as having received a 'lucky bonus' with his MP3 player.

all double standards are bad

[Karl Viklund @ Dec 29th 2007 1:59PM]

Hum.
That's funny. I was watching the news yesterday (Sweden) and there was a man that had bought a new Cellphone from "Telia Sonera" new package and discovered loads of videos and pictures on it with Animal Sex. I mean, what the hell is with this society. At least put something other then sex, porn animal sex on the devices or do we only have sick bastards working in the industry? This case, the case with the Zune and the Cellphone in Sweden. All with some sort of porn. What the fuck is with ppl?

[Richard Cartwright @ Dec 29th 2007 2:09PM]

In looking at the story In noticed that the Wal Mart was located in Sparta, in White County, TN. That is a very conservative rural area and it would not suprise me one bit that the little girl was upset, particularly if the family is fundementalist Christian. In any case, since I guess that none of you who think this is funny have children of your own, imangine whoat you would do if your 10 year old sister came crying to you about what was on the Christmas gift that you gave her.

[Miles @ Dec 29th 2007 2:47PM]

Wal-Mart needs to be sued off the face of the earth.
This is almost as bad as the pedophiles they catch on TV.
That's sickening.

[Chad @ Dec 29th 2007 3:56PM]

I just bought a microwave from my local wally-world and it had been returned and re-shelved it didn't work and I was pissed, so they gave me one that was almost twice as expensive for the same price.

[Ed @ Dec 29th 2007 4:25PM]

You know, I am not that shocked. Wal-Mart could make a mistake like this pretty easily.

The only reason why we are hearing about it, is that it was a 10 year old DAUGHTER.

If it was a 10 year old SON, you would of heard NOTHING :)

[Gadgetman @ Dec 29th 2007 6:08PM]

Sad but so true

[Richard Cartwright @ Dec 29th 2007 6:16PM]

Ed, I would have agreed with you about 10 years ago, but now not so much. Particularly in rural areas, the idea of boys being "done a favor" does not get traction like it used to. I do not disagree that the fact it was a little girl is giving the story more legs that it might otherwise, but I think its going too far to say there would be no story at all.

[Ed @ Dec 29th 2007 7:05PM]

LOL.

I don't mean to say the news media outlets would not have given it as much attention, or priority.

I mean to say there would be no story AT ALL since the boy would have never revealed the existence of the porn. EVER.

At my age, I remember a life before internet where there was only BBS and a PMP would have seemed magical to possess by any age group.

I also remember that if you got a hold of a playboy, or dare I say it.. a Hustler you were instantly vaulted into legendary status in the neighborhood among the other boys.

No other human behavior is more ubiquitous on this planet then a young man's search for porn :)

P.S - If I received a portable device in my youth with that much porn on it.... dear god :) Youth today takes for granted that you can carry around 100 gigs + of data with you.

P.P.S - For all of you that are disgusted that a young boy could get a hold of that material blah blah blah warped mind blah blah blah turn into a pervert blah blah blah..... get over yourself :) It's normal and will happen now matter how hard you try to prevent it.