June is International Accidental Public Porn Display Month

By Coleen Singer at Sssh.com Porn For Women

How many times has this happened to you: You’re at work, just trying to do your job, and instead you end up accidentally sharing a significant portion of your personal porn collection with every passerby in the general vicinity?

OK, so this probably has never happened to you, but it has happened to other people at least twice this month.

First, there was the case of a 38 year-old cable operator named “Manzoor” in Kalpetta, India. Among his duties, Manzoor maintains public displays located at local bus stops. Evidently, Mr. Manzoor mistook one of his personal USB drives filled with porn for his work USB and, yadda yadda yadda, suddenly people in the streets of Kalpetta were being treated to an unscheduled broadcast of what must have seemed like the most risqué Bollywood feature ever.

“There were hundreds of people present,” according a fellow on Reddit who goes by the name dark0range. “Many of the shocked and embarrassed women apparently fled the place. Mothers with their children, college girls and some others ran away.”

A few of the more intrepid witnesses present tried to cover the screen with items of clothing, but without a means to shut off the contraption entirely, there was nothing they could do about the sound, which continued to blare grunts and squeals for around 30 minutes until officials finally managed to stop the show.

Not to be outdone, a man in Mudanjiang, China bestowed residents of that city with a similar roadside attraction – albeit for a shorter time on a larger screen.

The Chinese version of Mr. Manzoor, whose name was not published in local media reports, works for a company which operates large public display screens that are primarily used to display (non-pornographic) movies at night. 

Somehow, after servicing a screen located across the street from a major Mudanjiang hospital, the man failed to disconnect his laptop from an output cable, so when he decided to take a little ‘porn break’ sitting in his cubicle, he unwittingly committed an act of oversharing which went over only slightly better than Manzoor’s Ersatz Erotic Film Festival.

“There were old people as well as young children present, and the display was actually facing a hospital so many of the patients definitely would have seen it,” a witness identified as “Mr. Wang” said. “How can they play such a content in public?”

It’s a good question, and the answer is the same in both Mudanjiang and Kalpetta: They can’t. And that’s where the not-so-fun part of the story starts.

It’s not clear from the reporting what our sort of potential trouble awaits our unidentified Chinese friend, but Mr. Manzoor has been charged with several crimes, including “obscene and indecent advertisement and display,” as well as violations of both the Indecent Representation of Women Act and the Information Technology Act. Reportedly, he could face up to two years in prison if convicted – which is a pretty damn stiff sentence for porn-oversharing, if you ask me.

Hopefully, something good will come out of the troubles faced by Manzoor and his Chinese peer, perhaps an awareness-raising campaign extolling cable operators the world over to double-check all those connections before firing up the smut, or perhaps a series of well-produced public service announcements called “Know Your USB.”

Unfortunately, it’s too late for Manzoor and the renegade projectionist of Mudanjiang, but look at the bright side: At least they don’t work in Saudi Arabia, where for convicted criminals “one-handed surfing” is often more than just a euphemism for watching online porn….