Child Gets Porn DVD In Place Of Video Game On Christmas

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At first I thought maybe the little girl opened one of mommy and daddy's gifts by accident but it looks like someone pulled a switcharoo at the store. Warning, the link leads to an autoplaying video (not porn). :D

“I had to explain to her a little bit that Santa’s elves don’t make the video games. They actually get them from the real stores and it had to have been a mix-up that Santa didn’t know about it.”
 
Might as well drop the santa act at that point. So now santa is just a distribution and order taking center instead of a magical place where elves build toys. Still doesn't explain why santa loves poor children less than rich children.
 
Steve said:
“I had to explain to her a little bit that Santa’s elves don’t make the video games. They actually get them from the real stores and it had to have been a mix-up that Santa didn’t know about it.”
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WTF? Why is this mom ruining Santa for her daughter?? All the mom needed to say was Santa accidentally swapped her game with daddy's gift.

2 birds, 1 stone. Kid still believes in Santa and daddy gets a gift from Santa that is 10 times better than what mommy would have bought him.
 
sfsuphysics said:
I call bullshit of the highest order on this whole story.
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It's not impossible. If this turns into a lawsuit, I'd be a lot more likely to call it a money grab. But it's possible a disgruntled employee somehow slipped it in during the manufacturing process. It's more likely that someone bought it, swapped the discs, resealed, and returned the game. Many years ago I got MGS2 for Christmas only to open it up and find an empty DVD case. Someone had successfully gotten it out and resealed it. If your going to attempt to do this, it does make since to stick a different disc in there since it would rattle when handled, making it more believable that the product wasn't tampered with.
 
Viper87227 said:
It's not impossible. If this turns into a lawsuit, I'd be a lot more likely to call it a money grab. But it's possible a disgruntled employee somehow slipped it in during the manufacturing process. It's more likely that someone bought it, swapped the discs, resealed, and returned the game. Many years ago I got MGS2 for Christmas only to open it up and find an empty DVD case. Someone had successfully gotten it out and resealed it. If your going to attempt to do this, it does make since to stick a different disc in there since it would rattle when handled, making it more believable that the product wasn't tampered with.
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That's totally believable. Used to happen at Target in the mid 2000s when I worked there in high school. They normally went for higher value iPods but the games were still $50-$60 and a decent profit for them. I even caught a guy doing it in the parking lot one time.
 
Krazy925 said:
That's totally believable. Used to happen at Target in the mid 2000s when I worked there in high school. They normally went for higher value iPods but the games were still $50-$60 and a decent profit for them. I even caught a guy doing it in the parking lot one time.
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Had it happen to me with an Xbox 360 during the RROD surge. Bought it, got it home, only to find RROD. Noticed it had been swapped. Went right back to the store. It sucks for the consumer because of the extra hassle and the fact you now look like the perpetrator of the fraud. It didn't help that Walmart didn't record serial#'s and the console boxes didn't have serial#'s (just a portal to the console serial), luckily I was able to escalate up to a manager that took care of it (pays to be level headed).
 
Spidey329 said:
Had it happen to me with an Xbox 360 during the RROD surge. Bought it, got it home, only to find RROD. Noticed it had been swapped. Went right back to the store. It sucks for the consumer because of the extra hassle and the fact you now look like the perpetrator of the fraud. It didn't help that Walmart didn't record serial#'s and the console boxes didn't have serial#'s (just a portal to the console serial), luckily I was able to escalate up to a manager that took care of it (pays to be level headed).
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Had that happen to me at best buy, took some serious convincing that it was RROD out of the box, they didn't believe me at first. And I agree, taking it slow and being calm about it does help your case a lot. Was able to get them to swap it for me.
 
Or an factory employee wanted a copy of the game and already had ripped the porn DVD and just did a swap at the factory. Probably figured that by the time the thing cleared outgoing customs, shipping, incoming customs, shipping, distribution, sales, and is finally discovered, he/she will be on their third job since the swap.
 
Darunion said:
Might as well drop the santa act at that point. So now santa is just a distribution and order taking center instead of a magical place where elves build toys. Still doesn't explain why santa loves poor children less than rich children.
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Because Santa is in with the rich people. The poor people just get leftover scraps.

I also wouldn't equate love with number or cost of gifts.
 
Darunion said:
Might as well drop the santa act at that point. So now santa is just a distribution and order taking center instead of a magical place where elves build toys. Still doesn't explain why santa loves poor children less than rich children.
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I agree the woman's "solution" was lame.

But I think you are missing something. It's not that Santa loves rich children more then poor children. It's just that all most parants love their kids and will do what they can for them.

You know that short saying about "Too much of anything is too much"?

Giving your kids everything they want all the time is "too much". But is it "too much" to give them something they wish for at Christmas time, in Santa's name?

Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving and of course Americans can get pretty materialistic about it all. But I think the ones who are supposed to get the most out of it are the parents, who get to break from routine and spoil their kids a little, and can still pawn it off "Santa did it!".

Just another way of looking at it. Panents doing something for their kids, what they can, it's not fair, but it's relative.
 
Unless someone swapped it and re-shrunk wrapped it, this is someone's idea of a joke at the packaging plant. It's possible someone with a warped mind and access to a heat shrink wrapping machine could have done it though. It's not like those things are illegal or anything, you can probably buy one on Amazon for $100 or less.
 
lcpiper said:
I agree the woman's "solution" was lame.

But I think you are missing something. It's not that Santa loves rich children more then poor children. It's just that all most parants love their kids and will do what they can for them.

You know that short saying about "Too much of anything is too much"?

Giving your kids everything they want all the time is "too much". But is it "too much" to give them something they wish for at Christmas time, in Santa's name?

Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving and of course Americans can get pretty materialistic about it all. But I think the ones who are supposed to get the most out of it are the parents, who get to break from routine and spoil their kids a little, and can still pawn it off "Santa did it!".

Just another way of looking at it. Panents doing something for their kids, what they can, it's not fair, but it's relative.
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What kills me are parents that buy their kids all 10 things they ask for. My kids make a list of priorities for santa and we try to buy the highest one on it within a price range lol. We set a $150 limit between "santa" and us which is think is a good amount. My 4yo daughter made it easy, charmander and pikachu stuffy. Cost me $20 off amazon and she was thrilled with santa :p
 
lcpiper said:
I agree the woman's "solution" was lame.

But I think you are missing something. It's not that Santa loves rich children more then poor children. It's just that all most parants love their kids and will do what they can for them.

You know that short saying about "Too much of anything is too much"?

Giving your kids everything they want all the time is "too much". But is it "too much" to give them something they wish for at Christmas time, in Santa's name?

Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving and of course Americans can get pretty materialistic about it all. But I think the ones who are supposed to get the most out of it are the parents, who get to break from routine and spoil their kids a little, and can still pawn it off "Santa did it!".

Just another way of looking at it. Panents doing something for their kids, what they can, it's not fair, but it's relative.
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I agree

But I guess my perspective of my comment was of that of the child. I never understood growing up that my friend would get a bike and a new game system when it came out and I would get clothes and puzzles lol. Yes it stems from greed, but when you make a jolly fat icon that gives away presents at no cost, what else is there to be learned from it?

We decided when we have kids, santa brings one present and focus more on gifting from eachother instead of trying to live up to magic. Prolly end up with those asshole kids that spoil it for everyone else, but oh well lol. Least if my kids get a porn instead of a movie they wanted, it will be easier to explain people make mistakes instead of magical beings making mistakes :D
 
Ragenrok said:
What kills me are parents that buy their kids all 10 things they ask for. My kids make a list of priorities for santa and we try to buy the highest one on it within a price range lol. We set a $150 limit between "santa" and us which is think is a good amount. My 4yo daughter made it easy, charmander and pikachu stuffy. Cost me $20 off amazon and she was thrilled with santa :p
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Man, I fucking struggle with this with the wife every year. She wants to get them freaking everything and I'm the opposite. I don't think they deserve 10 gifts just for being born. Three good gifts should do it if they are good and less for how shitty they've been all year.
 
"Obviously this isn't Target's fault," Greider said. "They didn't manufacture it but I feel they as a distributor they should take some responsibility to get to the bottom of it so this doesn't continue to happen."
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And what would you like them to do ? unpackage and re-open all returned items and then re-seal them for sale?
 
sfsuphysics said:
I call bullshit of the highest order on this whole story.
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Why is it BS? We got my son one of the Halo games from Walmart a few years ago and when we got home and he opened it up it was some kind of demo disc like the ones I've seen come with a gaming magazine.
 
I didn't even know Target sold pr0n videos. Nearest target is almost 100 miles from me so not a problem.
 
AK0tA said:
I didn't even know Target sold pr0n videos. Nearest target is almost 100 miles from me so not a problem.
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Hell do they even sell CD's with swearing in them yet? Censored music bs lol.
 
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