From Jakarta To Kerala, 10 Times When Porn "Accidentally" Lit Up The Public Space
This story is NSFW, obviously!
In 2016, someone played a pornographic film on jumbotron billboard for a full five minutes before the police were able to cut the power to the 250-square-foot electronic screen on a busy road in Jakarta
The perpetrator has since been caught and Redditors, like true Internet detectives, were quickly able to identify the exact film as Tokyo Hot N1185. Now, don't go Googling it.
The incident, that caused a jam and left motorists in South Jakarta in shock, was widely reported as several English sites along with the BBC picked up the "hot" piece of news
Today's traffic jam was a historic moment. Some dude accidentally played porn on a digital billboard on Pangeran Antasari road, Jakarta https://t.co/ibBHUqTj10
— Aries Kusnandar (@aries_k) September 30, 2016
A LED billboard plays porn clip in South Jakarta might be the most effective OOH ever published.
— Diandra (@splendidrin) September 30, 2016
And then we decided to find out how many times such an incident "accidentally" happened in the public space
It turns out there are many instances when porn lit up the public space. Below, we list down the number of times some despo forgot that he is not watching it alone.
In Moscow, on a highway on 17 January 2010
Igor Blinnikov, a Russian, hacked an advertising billboard on a highway in Moscow and rigged it so the 20x30ft billboard would play porn. And he did this from his home in a town 1,130 km away from Moscow. According to Blinnikov, it was a "bad joke".
But officials thought it was a horrible joke and a year later in 2011 Blinnikov was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for his graphic billboard hack.
In Bangladesh's Dhaka airport on 20 December 2010
It was reported that a huge display screen inside Hazrat Shahjalal Airport meant to air programmes about the country "mistakenly" displayed a porn clip for a full five minutes, prompting the civil aviation authority to launch a probe into the incident.
In Switzerland's Zuchwil town on 9 December 2014
Happened inside McDonald's, customers eating at the fast food outlet were served up an X-rated side order when the video screens set up inside for customers programmed to show a sports channel "accidently" switched to broadcasting hardcore porn.
According to reports, the local sports station was playing the after-hours program Sexy Sports Clips (we realise it doesn't sound like it, but it's porn).
In north-eastern China's Mudanjiang city on 21 June 2015
A large public screen on the side of a busy road on a Sunday afternoon became the source of displeasure for the residents in Mudanjiang when the screen controller watching porn in his office was oblivious to the fact his computer was connected.
In northern China's Beijing on 3 July 2015
This time around it was inside a railway station, after a maintenance worker starting watching "The Forbidden Legend: Sex and Chopsticks" without realising that his computer was connected to a giant screen, which he was supposed to repair.
In the Wayanad district of Kerala on 17 July 2015
A cable operator for the government-run KSRTC bus stop in the Wayanad district of Kerala licenced to play music inside the state buses there, "accidentally" played porn on one bus after he mixed up his pen drives. It was reported that the porn click was played for a full 30 minutes before someone inside the bus managed to switch it off.
This Reddit user gave a detailed account of what exactly happened:
In Portugal's Lisbon airport on 19 October 2015
Passengers at Lisbon airport's baggage carousel were in for quite a surprise when hardcore porn started playing on the large TV screens as they were collecting their luggage. It was reported that the porn clip was on the screen for several minutes.
In east China's Bengbu city on 12 February 2016
A shopping mall in China accidentally played porn on a giant LED screen in full view of shocked customers last week. According to reports, the incident happened after a computer was connected to the big screen "by mistake"
In India's Pune city on 26 August 2016
Traffic on Pune's Karve road was brought to a scratching halt when some dude's "me time" was displayed on a giant display screen for the people to gawk at. The clip even made a man stop in the middle of the road while holding his umbrella (no pun intended).