Shock! Outrage! Whatever! All words that are totally appropriate for this here story. Get this: a six-year-old boy gets a brand new Sony PSP from Wal-Mart. He turns it on for the first time, and bam! A naked lady is set as the PSP’s screensaver. Now, in our book that sounds like a win, but the boy’s mother wants a pound of flesh.
Or at least an apology. Watching the embedded video—if you can stand the local reporter’s Nasal Reporter Voice (why do all on-air or on-screen reporters use that dumb voice? is that how they talk in real life?)—to better understand what’s going on, and to see a few blurry photos of naked ladies.
Long story short: kid gets a PSP that comes with a memory card filled with pornographic photos, kid freaks out and tell his mom, mom gets upset and wants a new, porn-free PSP and an apology from Wal-Mart. Why, exactly, the local news has to get involved, I have no idea.
I suppose the kid’s a little on the young side, but this whole thing just smacks of the age old American tradition of, “AHH SEX, GET THEE BACK, WRETCHED DEMON!”
What this story doesn’t mention is that those naked ladies represented the most fun that kid would have had on his PSP. (The baseless implication there is that the PSP is no fun, thank you.)
Whereas if it was chock-full of snuff films and vivisections (of brown ‘terrorists’, natch), that would have been doubleplusgood.
Some may think porn is something to share with the entire family, I disagree. And given that the naked images of the past have been replaced with very disturbing scenes of forced and sometimes very violent images; I would have been steaming. A 6 year old can be emotionally scared from this type of exposure and it is not something to laugh about. I understand your comical approach to this but I have noticed over the years a creeping invasion of porn into the video gaming industry. I know gamming isn’t just for kids but you have a product still marketed to children while containing very adult themes. I think the gaming industry is selling out at the cost of the children.
I know that everyone likes to bash Big Bad Walmart but I’m going to explain EXACTLY how this happened and how it is not Walmart’s fault. I purchase items all the time from places like BestBuy and knowing the fickle return policies of some stores regarding electronics, I carefully remove the seal of the box with a razor blade, and store the seal on a piece of wax like paper. This is done in the event I don’t want the item, I can return it as a NEW Unopened item. I bring the item up to customer service to return it. They say, “Is there anything wrong with it?.” Of course, I respond with, “I never even opened it.” They refund my money and return the item to store stock as a still new item.
Not that you’re alone in doing that, but those actions are the reason the rest of us have to deal with that impossible to open plastic casing.
If you think I feel bad doing that, you are sadly mistaken. I never did that in the past until many of the stores around me and online, instituted a 15-20% restocking fee on opened electronics. No amount of chastising will make me feel any guilt.
hilarious, and sick. maybe adbusters was right porn taking over -
http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/83/pornocalypse_now.html
Correct me if I am wrong, but the CORE pack PSP has NO memory stick included. So how did that get on there?
Was it from another device in the household that uses memory sticks?
Apparently you didn’t read my above post.
I did, but why would anyone be dumb enough to leave their memory stick in an item to return?
You said it yourself: because people are dumb. How many times have we heard about people selling a hard drive or laptop on eBay but forgot to erase all the data on it beforehand?
They left porn on the screen instead of wiping it clean, so obviously they aren’t that smart. They can easily find who returned this item. The serial number is recorded on the receipt. http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5739/94414913.png All they have to do is pull the receipt from the returnee with the same serial and accompanying return information (most stores want your address / phone and whatnot) and ask him why he left the memory stick in the unit full of porn.
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Sorry about the broken link
This isnt very shocking to me. Either someone returned it without removing the porn, or someone in the warehouse that boxes and ships psps out put it in there.
I agree with with Nicholas though, this is just more “OMG SEX RUN AWAY!” And I’d like to say that isnt really an american thing as much as it is a conservative religious jesus freak thing.
Obviously this is walmarts fault. Because “NEW” PSP’s dont come with the memory sticks already in the PSP. You install them yourself. So obviously walmart never even bothered to test the PSP to see if it even still worked after whoever returned it.
It was probably a practical joke by whoever returned it. I mean I could see if you accidently left a photo in the gallery but to leave it as your wallpaper! I dont think anyone is that stupid to do that by accident.
Also its kinda scary that walmart takes returns and doesnt even test the items to see if they even work!
LOL
I’d have loved to get that PSP :p!
I feel it was a trade up by someone to the new model. They bought the new PSP (which they probably ended up getting a PSP-2001 since only a few places I’ve seen have the PSP-3001 core packs) and replaced it with the old one and returned it. Obviously in their haste, they neglected to remove the memory card & switch the wallpaper (not screensaver, let’s get the terms right) or remove it. They lost their Memory Stick too boot…
The mom should get a new *unopened* PSP 3001 & a new game (of their choice) or a new Memory Stick Pro Duo. Heck, they should give her the silver slim PSP 3001 bundle. And her money back for the inconvenience.
She could quite possibly even take Wal*Mart to court on this too. Wal*Mart should be thankful that all she wants is a new PSP & apology.
Anyway, that’s my 2 cents on the issue. I still have & use my PSP 1001 & I can’t wait to get a 3001 – hopefully sooner than later.
The kid probably put it there himself and made the excuse it was already on it, who cares if he’s 6, early interest? And there’s no memory card in the PSP when you get it.. So he would of had to put it there himself.
Boy’s aren’t typically interested in girls / women until 12 years old or later.
maybe some teenager was testing the psp and tried to watch porn in it and forgot to take back the memory card.big possibility
that was cool
Fine, very interesting, now where can i buy this original PSP, Including all original pornographic material included.
I start an offer with 1000 US-Dls
How about a cum shot? That’ll do…
What If It Was Filled With Osama Bin Laden’s Plans?
xD
I would Have Kept it And Roundhouse Kicked My Mom…
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I would have kept the porn and slapped that bitch-of a mother whore and then masturbated to that shit!!
HELL YA BROTHER!!
OMG The first and secinds pictures of of former WWE/F Divas Trish Stratus and Lita. I think I have those specific pictures. Tottally not NUDE! about the other 150 I have no idea. But I have pictures of hot women everywhere. computer, Room. And If I had had a PSP it’d be there to. But Damn this story is funny
HHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAH
I love watching porn on my PSP. hooray fo r porn!!!!