TMZ has the scoop:
Super Bowl fans in Tucson, Ariz. were subjected to 30 seconds of hard-core porn—wang and all—when somehow, the game feed was suddenly interrupted by a clip from an adult television channel.
Yes, this actually happened.
Comcast—the cable company in Tucson—is working on an explanation, but right now it appears the porn break in only occurred in its standard-definition feed reaching analog TV sets.
TMZ also has the (NSFW) footage. (Ugh; I’d rather get tea-bagged by Springsteen, especially if I had a time machine set to 1984.)
Finally, TMZ has the update:
Comcast just released this statement: “We are mortified by last evening’s Super Bowl interruption and we apologize to our customers. Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act. We are conducting a thorough investigation to determine who was behind this.”
At least it wasn’t the nipple of Janet Jackson!
Wowww!! dude swings it around and everytning. epic lols
Random rare porn feeds to analog sets over cable: now THERE’S a good reason to delay the DTV changeover.
Obviously Brad Pitt was behind it. Sheesh.
That sound you’re about to hear is somebody’s head hitting the floor and rolling. Ouch.
Some people just don’t have a sense of humor.
Wow, so Tucson was the only place in America where the Superbowl was briefly interesting
That’s weird, because I was watching porn last night and it got interrupted by a 30 second clip of the superbowl.
However, football being what it is, I couldn’t really tell the difference.
Wow, you don’t see the word “mortified” in a press release very often. That is one serious apology.
Evan Stone is hilarious in Pirates 2.
What?
I read that comcast is offering people those subscribers a $5 discount on their next cable bill. I’m guessing most people will say that isn’t enough for having to see porn, but I’m also guessing a few people are excited to get free porn and five bucks.
a couple years ago at the Southcenter Red Robin the TVs suddenly all switched to some hardcore porn ads for new videos or upcoming shows. It was all rather sureal as I processed what I was seeing on screen with the childs birthday party going on in the section next to us. After what seemed like several minutes, the channel was turned. We still had to pay for our food though.
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@6 – Yeah, weird, huh? Only in Tucson, and only right when Arizona finally took the lead in the game…..
What a… coinky-dink………
I really want to think this is funny, and part of me does. But as a parent of young kids who accidentally stumbled on some hardcore porn while browsing the internet, I can say that it is really traumatic for them. (No, not seeing boobies, shit, any kids can handle that. If they haven’t seen ’em by now, it’s time they had!) But the kind of pornography that can’t be explained – DPs, etc –
Once they see it they can never un-see it and it’s truly a horrifying experience for everyone involved. Be glad that it wasn’t kids you know and love who saw it.
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People lived in one room for tens of thousands of years. All the families lived together in one big happy home. Babies were conceived and born there. People died there. And that’s when neighboring tribes weren’t invading and cutting off heads. Why are we so hyper sensitive?
@14,
I’m guessing this post will disappear out the bottom of the page before you see it, but I “sorta” disagree. Ok, maybe hardcore porn would be traumatic for a kid, but how about if it was just two people having regular boring sex. Would that be harmful? Not trying to knock you specifically or anything… it’s more a general question. Why do people think kids are going to be “damaged” from seeing sex? Is there any evidence that it’s harmful to them?
@17 –
two people having regular boring sex would be easy enough to explain, save for the confusion they might have about why there was a third person in the room filming it and why it was on the internet. but i could probably get a somewhat satisfying explanation over, even for that.
my children have known about the mechanics of baby-making for a few years now. we have an open and comfortable relationship with our kids and encourage questions. like all kids do, they have figured out that some body parts respond more than others and we as parents have not discouraged them from learning about their own bodies in private, etc etc. this is TMI, i know.
it is scary and confusing for a child’s first IMAGES of sex to be of a humiliating, borderline violent nature – seeing a woman on all fours being mounted by three men, and, as my nine-year-old said, through his tears, “peeing in each others’ mouths” was more than any child should have to carry around and try to make sense of. it takes their curiosity to new and, yes i’ll even say, dangerous levels and distorts their perception of what sex is all about and how men and women relate to one another.
i tell you what, you never, ever saw two kids trying harder to keep themselves distracted as i did after that. they lengths that they went to to clutter their brains with absolutely anything and everything was fascinating – and it made me so sad.
@14: I do not belive for one second your kids ‘stumbled’ on porn. I don’t care how old they are; somebody probably thought it would be funny to look up “penis” or something.
Secondly, more people need to be exposed to strange things; it opens their minds. This being america, the penis is the ultimate strange thing.
I’m afraid I’m calling shenanagans on your children seeing three guys mounting a woman and also people peeing in each others mouths and then crying about it. That’s quite alot of porn to make it through while being traumatized.
whatever, guy – my computer is in my kitchen and i was in the room while it happened but i had my back to them – they were looking up marine life for a science project and came to a perfectly legitimate website that had been hacked and the content had been replaced with about 20 still photos filling the page, collage-style. when i went back that evening to show a friend who i was telling the story to, it had been taken down.
i’d be willing to bet that before they started freaking out they looked at it for several minutes – any kid would, but no, they did not do it deliberately. and no, i didn’t “catch” them – they came to me and said, “uhhhh mom? there’s something wrong with your computer” before they completely broke down.
of COURSE kids look shit up, especially if they have private access to a computer. did i look up every singly “dirty” word i could think of in the dictionary? did i look when my friend and i stumbled on her dad’s ‘playboy’ stash when we were kids? you bet i did.
but don’t assume that it never happens by accident/mistake – because i am here to tell you … it does. and it changes things.
you’ve got some nerve arguing that my kids, or anyone’s kids, are better off for their exposure to that. i’m all for minds being opened, but can’t we argue for a reasonable pace?