Lawmaker shows naked woman during school lecture

[Lyle]

NORWALK, Ohio (AP) -- A state legislator surprised a high school class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law.

State Rep. Matthew Barrett was giving a civics lesson Tuesday when he inserted a data memory stick into the school computer and the projected image of a topless woman appeared instead of the graphics presentation he had downloaded.

Police interviewed Barrett and school officials and seized the data memory stick and the computer to determine where the image came from, a state highway patrol spokesman said.

Barrett said there were a few snickers from the approximately 20 students in the senior government class at Norwalk High School when the image appeared. He said he immediately pulled the memory stick out of the computer.

The legislator said he finished his lecture using printouts and then met with the school's principal and technology staff, who examined the stick. He said the school's technology director determined the stick had a directory of nude images in addition to Barrett's presentation on civics lessons.

"I have no idea where these came from," the Democrat said.

Barrett said the data memory stick was a gift he received about three weeks ago from a legislative liaison from the state Library of Ohio.
Link (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/legislator.nudity.ap/index.html)

I hate when that happens.

[Eraserhead]

Link (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/legislator.nudity.ap/index.html)

I hate when that happens.

So do I, clearly the world as we know it has ended.

[IJ Reilly]

I hate when that happens.

Have this problem often, do you?

[Stampyhead]

Why did the police seize the flash drive? I'm assuming the image was of an adult woman?

[SilentPanda]

Why did the police seize the flash drive? I'm assuming the image was of an adult woman?

Exposing people under 18 to it is against the law I believe.

[mkrishnan]

Why did the police seize the flash drive? I'm assuming the image was of an adult woman?

Maybe it was hot porn, and they wanted to know how to get more?

LOL this reminds me tangentially, that we have a relatively famous researcher in the area of anxiety, who pioneered and works with a set of standardized images that are intended to evoke different basic emotions at different intensities. He gave a presentation during our interview weekend for prospective new students, and he had some collage slides of the pictures from this set, which include a fair number of nude models. In itself, that's fine, but the amusing thing is that this set was created and heavily standardized over the past ~20 years, and so the pictures are sort of stuck in it, and sometimes become dated. All I have to say is that standards for hair down there have changed rather a lot in twenty years!!! :eek:

[IJ Reilly]

I'm trying to figure out how the pictures could have displayed automatically when the flash drive was plugged it.

[atszyman]

I'm trying to figure out how the pictures could have displayed automatically when the flash drive was plugged it.

simple...

autorun.inf

[nbs2]

I'm trying to figure out how the pictures could have displayed automatically when the flash drive was plugged it.

If I remember right, XP gives you an option to auto run a flash drive when it detects media. You can have music start playing automatically, slideshows start, etc. I don't know if the setting is stored on the computer or the flash drive, but if the latter, that is an option (but then it would have loaded automatically when he loaded his presentation - but I don't have a solution for that).

[saxman]

I have a friend who this happened to in an elementary class. Her windows pc had several spyware/virus programs that pulled up adult websites and she couldn't get it shut down. She almost got fired.

Yet another reason to go with a Mac

[MacNut]

I have a friend who this happened to in an elementary class. Her windows pc had several spyware/virus programs that pulled up adult websites and she couldn't get it shut down. She almost got fired.

Yet another reason to go with a MacDon't forget the case about the substitute teacher that was convicted.

And why was Highway Patrol involved?Police interviewed Barrett and school officials and seized the data memory stick and the computer to determine where the image came from, a state highway patrol spokesman said.They should go easy on the guy, its not like this happened in the airport bathroom.:p

[zioxide]

pics or it didn't happen

:D

[Thanatoast]

It's sad that this is a news item. Growing up, I never imagined that naked women would someday constitute a punishable crime. A police investigation and seizing of hardware for an accidental picture of a naked woman seems, politely, retarded.

[MacNut]

Yes because I'm sure a high school boy has never seen a picture of a naked lady before.:rolleyes:

[Dros]

A person giving a job talk for a faculty position at the university I was a post-doc had this happen to him, in front of a large audience. No job for him.

[zioxide]

americans are a bunch of prudes


OMFG BOOBIES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS... ELECTRIC CHAIRZ FOR HIM!

[RichP]

americans are a bunch of prudes


OMFG BOOBIES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS... ELECTRIC CHAIRZ FOR HIM!

ohnoes! b00bz!!!11!!one!!! pics or ban.

Law Skool is SRS BSNS.

[runningman]

It's like the song I'm a bill on capital hill.
Maybe he was showing how a bill becomes law and different ways one can encourage a bill to get introduced?:rolleyes:

[Iscariot]

Yes because I'm sure a high school boy has never seen a picture of a naked lady before.:rolleyes:

I never saw a naked woman until I got married and saw my wife for the first time on my wedding night. We only have "grown up time" to make babies, never for pleasure, and we always go to confessional straight after.

[mcarnes]

It's like the song I'm a bill on capital hill.

Indeed. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlka6fTnDnI)

[ravenvii]

@ Barrett:

I SEA what you did there! :D

I never saw a naked woman until I got married and saw my wife for the first time on my wedding night. We only have "grown up time" to make babies, never for pleasure, and we always go to confessional straight after.

What's so not funny about this quote is that there are actually some people out there somewhere who actually live like that.

[LethalWolfe]

He said the school's technology director determined the stick had a directory of nude images in addition to Barrett's presentation on civics lessons.
That's my favorite part of the whole story.

Brilliant. I'm glad they called in the school's technology director to determine if there was any porn on the thumb drive 'cause anyone else wouldn't have been qualified to do a job like that...


Lethal

[zap2]

Oh big deal....a topless women?


Most of the kids have seen a picture, video or the real thing at some point!

Heck some of the people in the class were women(physically)


Of course you try to avoid doing this, but hardly a big deal.

[oblomow]

@ Barrett:



What's so not funny about this quote is that there are actually some people out there somewhere who actually live like that.

Son, you're not making fun of me, are you?? :rolleyes:

[iBlue]

OMG NOES! BOOBS!


( o Y o )

[Ninden]

OMG NOES! BOOBS!


( o Y o )


Oh the huge mammaries! :eek:

[jsw]

And why was Highway Patrol involved?They should go easy on the guy, its not like this happened in the airport bathroom.:pIt would have been even worse if the picture was of a nude man. I mean... penises on display... aside from on every male animal everywhere? It would have caused great mental trauma.

But, if it had been, oh, a picture of someone getting shot? No worries.

[bartelby]

But, if it had been, oh, a picture of someone getting shot? No worries.

Especially one of those a-rabs

[saxman]

But, if it had been, oh, a picture of someone getting shot? No worries.

This is a good point. Although many would call me a prude for being against pornography, the issue of violence is often sidestepped. The evening news will show people getting shot or blown up and their aftermath without hesitation. But they would never show a topless woman. We become desensitized to the effects of violence to the point that atrocities don't bother us anymore

[blitzkrieg79]

This is a good point. Although many would call me a prude for being against pornography, the issue of violence is often sidestepped. The evening news will show people getting shot or blown up and their aftermath without hesitation. But they would never show a topless woman. We become desensitized to the effects of violence to the point that atrocities don't bother us anymore

Yeah USA is a great country BUT one thing I never understood is how come is it ok to show gore violence on news or movies like it's a regular natural thing but when Janet Jackson pops up half of her nipple at a show entire country is "disgusted" by it and talks about it for half a year or when one of the famous actresses has a nude scene where she shows her boob for half a second (or god forbid her ass or other private area) all the TV shows and tabloids talk about it like it is the biggest news of the year :rolleyes:.

Jeezzz, in Europe when I woke up at 8/9 am I saw boobs on regular TV constantly, when you walk by down the streets and see newspaper stands, you can see all the porno magazine covers and no one makes any big deal about it, it's human body, human nature, sex is a part of human nature and a lot less "dirty" than people blowing up each other in the Hollywood most creative ways.

Also, related or not but as far as I know Europe also has lower percentage teenage pregnancy rates, I mean if people are exposed to the "dirty" sex and nude body from the young age maybe it somehow satisfies their curiosity about human nature and actually makes them a bit more responsible, I didn't conduct any research on it so it's just my hypothesis but maybe there is something to it.

[imac/cheese]

This reminds me of the story about the guy who was giving a work presentation and after staying on a single slide for a time his screensaver popped up revealing a naked woman.

I think the interesting thing about this story is that the guy said he had no idea where the pictures came from.

[Virgil-TB2]

I get this stupid thing all the time (not the pornography, but the same effect).

I work in a couple of lab's that are mostly Mac but with the odd Windows PC in there as well and I use a stick to transfer files around all the time.

Put it in the mac and you get a virtual drive loading on the desktop (useful no?), but put it in the Windows machine and several programs run by default. If you have any pictures on the thing (almost everyone does), it will without notifying you automatically start some kind of picture application and load up your pictures. Same for audio and Video.

This is another Microsoft "innovation" that just gets in your way for the most part. I am sure you can turn it off, but our drive images are fairly standard and this is the default behaviour on Windows now.

Some student could have put the folder on his stick, knowing that it would automatically load the second he put the stick in.

Stupid stupid programming from the kings of stupid programming (Microsoft). :p

[pilotError]

Something similar happened in work.

The presenter (who I worked with) couldn't get the overhead projector to work and climbed under the table to check the cables, etc.

Not paying attention, the projector finally kicked in...

Well you all know the mode that windows has where you can see the picture previews in explorer...

Idiot had a bunch of porn in the same directory as his presentation.

Ooops. Luckily it was a presentation to a vendor who was more interested in making a sale then getting him canned.

The look on his face was priceless though :p

[william sire]

Why didn't the story in the OP have a picture of the woman?

[twoodcc]

What's so not funny about this quote is that there are actually some people out there somewhere who actually live like that.

i doubt there are many that live exactly like that. maybe similar

[MattG]

"I have no idea where these came from," the Democrat said.

So...why is it necessary to emphasize this? Just seems weird that they wouldn't just call him by name.

[Stampyhead]

So...why is it necessary to emphasize this? Just seems weird that they wouldn't just call him by name.

If he had been a republican the text would have been 5 times larger, in bold and red with blinking lights all around it...

[GFLPraxis]

Heck some of the people in the class were women(physically)


How else would they be women?

[notjustjay]

I truly do not understand the stupidity of some people.

Seriously, folks, is it so difficult to just leave the stuff at home? I would never, ever put anything like that even NEAR a screen saver, desktop picture, USB key, etc. or in the same folder as a public presentation.

Apparently this must happen a lot, because in addition to stories like this one (in which all the victim got was a good dose of embarrassment), almost every week I hear another story on the news that someone was arrested at the border, because customs officials discovered a laptop full of, well, the illegal kind of porn. I wish I knew a customs officer - I'd want to ask how often they stumble on the legal stuff and wave the guy through, snickering under their breath...