Imagine: you're a ten-year-old girl on Christmas morning, and you've just found the mp3 video player you begged Santa for right there under the tree. You eagerly rip it open, turn it on - and find it already loaded with porn, violent war movies and drug anthems.
Are you shocked? Appalled? Traumatized for life? The parents of a Tennessee girl certainly hope so. They refused an offer from Wal-Mart, where the player was purchased, to replace it. Instead, they bought their daughter a new one and held on to the first one. That can only mean one thing: one more case for Wal-Mart's already beleaguered legal team.
Not that the family doesn't have grounds for a lawsuit. Wal-Mart's own policies prohibit returned items from being sold as new. The store is still trying to figure out how the player ended up back on the sales floor.
But it may not be all bad news for the mega-retailer. Experts are still out on whether the $447 the family would have had to pay to download all that porn can be deducted from any judgment.
