Man blames cat for child porn downloads A Florida man accused of downloading more than 1,000 images of child pornography is blaming the offense on his cat, according to published reports. Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach is charged with 10 counts of child porn possession after detectives found the images on his home computer, the Associated Press reports. …
Unless it was a sting operation website (unlikely) the cops don't investigate you unless there's some other lead. I understand most child porn downloaders get caught because they were foolish enough to use their own credit-card information to purchase it, or that someone else reported them after seeing their computer. The AP source doesn't mention this (rather crucial) detail.
/SaintBill because IE doesn't report what sites you visit to the feds
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They laze around the house eating our food, even though, unlike dogs they can get thier own, commanding us to do thier bidding with thier sub sonic purrs, and now they are using OUR broadband to D/L thier Pr0n! they dont even offer to pay toward the Broadband bill! !!!!111111eventyone
..if you ignore your cat's repeatedly 'requests' for feeding. Though the severity of the cat's actions suggests that he'd not fed it in quite a while, the worst I've heard in the past was a little bit of insurance fraud and some drug planting - for a cat to go so far as downloading 1000 images to frame their owner neglect of the highest degree.
Perhaps he deserved it!
Let's give the wanker the benefit of the doubt and say that it was the inadvertent tap of kitty paws that magically caused pr0n to appear on his hard drive... If the dude knew his cat jumps on the keyboard when he steps away, he should have had a keyboard locker app installed on his machine so when the cat jumps on the keys, the pr0n wouldnt have cruised in. If only he would have been running Linux, he could have snagged such an app from the repos quick, free and Free.
However, I'm still sober (for now) so to me, believing this tomfoolery is like believing that Baldmer is a Linux advocate. Dude probably floats air biscuits and blames it on the dog too...
..."Your honor, this is a great misunderstanding. Most blokes have pets that behave. I get stuck with flatulating canines and Pr0n snagging felines, and I'm so locked into the Winhole Experience that I don't know how to make the keyboard pussyproof" LMAO
Is this guy MAD, he should fess up to the LESSER child pr0n charge immediately, he'll probably not even do time for a first offence...
Whereas the way things are in the US now, If they do him for illegally downloading music his ancestors will still be coughing up to the RIAA two or three generations down the line..!
Maybe they should be putting away the cat -- it sounds like a real pervert.
But seriously, they DO need to make sure (whether him or the cat) did not put some porn-sucking virus onto his computer *ASAP*, before his life is ruined even more. My cats *have* made my computer do ridiculous things -- I have an app I click on specifically because it ignores keyboard input, and they'd still manage to jump on the mouse first! I scold them a bit when I catch them stepping on it, so now they are very good about walking around the keys though. And recall unlike a proper OS (Linux, OSX, other UNIXes) Windows doesn't have an execute bit on files so anything named *.exe will run -- making it easy for a cat to launch some rogue file.
I find this very unlikely, though, in which case obviously the cat didn't download child pornography over 1000 times.
How can a cat take a computer to PC World?
Although there's a lot that can be done by pressing keys at random (by a cat sleeping in a nice warm laptop keyboard).
I had to delete dozens of duplicate desktop icons once. And on another occasion, found that one cat had managed to open Outlook Express and compose an email.
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Hi, I am a cat. My servant, Sceptical Bastard (or SB as I call him when I deign to address him at all) is taking a shower so I've commandeered his keyboard to defend us felines.
To all you humantard commentators dissing us cats, I say FOAD. Do you want to be over-run with mice and birds? No? Then shut the fuck up.
Do you two-legged furless fuckwits seriously think we'd be interested in looking at pictures of you abusing your kittens? No. It is quite obvious that my brother in America was exacting revenge for some insult or neglect. And good luck to him!
Any more whingeing from you lot and there'll be fur flying! And - if you read this - the same goes for you SB. Now get out of that bathroom and open that sachet of catfood before I shit under your pillow and spray your freshly-laundered shirts.
>> He was downloading music. So i would guess he was using a Gnutella based P2P client like Limewire.
I can remember downloading what was supposed to be GTA San Andreas from Limewire - the first time I got Chicago, so I tried again and got a porno starring Snoop Dogg. It is very possible his cat could have pressed random buttons and downloaded a rar file containing 1000s of CP images. My daughter, when she was 18 months old managed to randomly press buttons and activate a 180 degree screen rotation.
That does sound a bit beyond reasonable doubt, the chances of a cat hiting random keys to get that crap are remote but to get over 1000 pics? he must be having a laugh, i bet his whole defence is going to be about proving its possible all be it remote that that could happen.
and you know what, knowing todays legal system he'll probably get away with it on that 1 in a billion technicality.
If you have an infinite number of cats walking over your keyboard then they'll eventually manage the complete works of Shakespeare, just as with the monkeys.
I tend to lock my keyboard when I leave the computer because the cats in this house do walk over the keyboard. However, as far as I know none of them have downloaded porn yet.
I assume they're using their IM (Instant Miaow) client to communicate with their friends.
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