Offended By Pornography
Here’s one of those silly stories that makes you marvel at human diversity:
Man burns porn magazines in midair
A Brit became so offended by the pornography magazines he had purchased that he tried to burn them to ashes on board a Braathens flight from Bergen to London.
David Mason told the court Tuesday that he lit several pages from his porn magazines on fire because he was offended by them.
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According to Prosecutor Roger Booth, Mason first asked one of the stewardesses on board if he could burn some papers in the oven in the plane�s kitchen, a request that was turned down.
Shortly there after, two passengers reported that they smelt smoke in the cabin. Staff managed to locate the fire and extinguished it with water.
According to Booth, Mason became so offended by some of the pictures in one of the porn magazines he had with him on the plane that he had an immediate need to destroy them at that very moment.
Unfortunately, the journalist did not see fit to share with us the nature of the offending imagery.
Thanks to NSFW News for the link. (Have I mentioned lately how much I despise the “NSFW” meme?)
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Let us go through the Levels of Stupid here:
1. Buying a porn mag which has content which might offend you (most mags specialize in various “interests”, so it is unlikely you are going to find something that offends you, especially if you are the kind of person who buys porn mags in the first place [c’mon, yu know what I’m talking about]).
2. Bringing said porn magazine on an airplane (He’s not embarrassed enough by airport security finding it? Did he plan on jerking off in his seat during the flight?)
3. Becoming upset at said offensive material (Poor baby, you blew several bucks on something you didn’t like. Waaah.)
4. “Disposing” of the magazine BY BURNING IT. (THIS ITEM NEEDS NO FURTHER COMMENT).
I don’t think I’m alone when I say that I want to see what he was looking at. If you’re the type to buy porn mags and read them on an airplane (when you are squeezed so tightly you could rub one out on the person next to you) surely you’ve seen it all – or most of it. What was so atrocious? I need to see the pictures.
In all seriousness, I figure the truth is that this was a guy with serious guilt/sin issues. Probably bought the magazine in a “weak moment”, examined it furtively as part-and-parcel of the impulse purchase, and then became so overwhelmed with self-loathing that he couldn’t deal. So he projected that self-loathing onto the material, and concluded that it had to meet an immediate fiery doom (the very one he probably worries about himself).
Sad, but more a mental health problem than garden-variety stupidity, I’m guessing.
Just a quick warning. As soon as I went to NSFW (Not Safe For Work), I got four separate virus warnings from my AntiVirus software. Looks like their site or a least some of their links are NSFMC (Not Safe for My Computer)
Well said, Bacchus. Well said.
I remember a similar tabloid story of UK stupidity where a customer bought a DVD player at catalogue store Argos with a ‘Lex the Impaler’ disc already in it by accident! (causing one to wonder what the Argos folks got up to in the storeroom). I, or any other sane person, would think bonus! and keep the disc (decent porn DVDs cost about £40 over here). Instead the punter brought the player back and demanded apologies and refunds etc., what a mook!
As an Irish person currently living in England I can attest to their people’s bizarre attitude to sex and porn, nudge nudge wink wink style camp sex humour is ok, it seems, but frank discussions of sex or porn seem to scare them.
I’m suprised that noone has considered the possibility that someone he knew may have been in the magazine. A sister perhap, aunt? His Mother??