Getting More Than You Bargained For

Mom decides to pick up some cheap movies at the thrift store for the kids. Upon firing up the cinemographic masterpiece “The Cat in The Hat” she quickly realizes that someone had taped over it with something a bit (ok, a lot) less “G” rated.  This story totally sounds like a plant; someone took a kids movie, taped something else on to it and then gave it to Goodwill, St. Vincent de Paul, etc. It sounds like mom caught it before there was a lot of explaining to do to the kids. Either way, someone out there has a sick sense of practical jokes (though the fact the tape opened with the racy content does make the arguement for accidental taping.  Someone who really wanted to do this would have put the content about 30 mins into the movie).

It does make me wonder how many people are still using VCR’s. I think still have one in the house somewhere, but it is definitely not hooked up. Both of my sons will probably grow up never knowing what “rewind” means, except to watch something again on the TV (via the TiVo/DVR). The TiVo/DVR has also led to other interesting contexts such as “pausing” Candyland or the driveway basketball game to go potty.

Nonetheless, we’ll have to be careful to see if any thrift DVD’s we pick up are actually mastered ones, or a writeable ones with some “unsavory” content. Given you can print right to DVD’s now, someone could probably pull this stunt with a DVD with little effort.