Baby's first porn

Today is a good day for news. A good day. Not only did I find out that Adolf Hitler had malicious plans for cricket after he and his mates got thrashed at the game in 1923, but that a whole lot of children got their first experience of porn because of a technical glitch.

That's right folks, according to this story a few North Carolina children got more than they bargained for when a children's cartoon channel got cross-wired with the Playboy channel.

"Young viewers of children's television programs in North Carolina got a glimpse of something far more risque than their favourite cartoons, when a cable glitch broadcast two hours of the Playboy channel."

I like the smirk behind that sentence.

The incident happened between 6:15am and 8:15am. I'm not sure what kind of material Playboy plays at that time, but according to the report it involves "scantily clad women striking suggestive poses and talking dirty." *

Apparently the cable operator was made aware of the problem when parents called in.

I would have liked to be a fly on the wall...I'm just not sure on which wall; on that of the parents at the moment they found their innocent five year old learning what Debbie does or that of the cable operator at the moment the calls came in.

*ha ha ha, when do journalists ever get to write sentences like that?!