Driver Cited For Playing Pornographic DVD Inside Car At Drive Thru

[matcom]

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A woman got a little more than what she ordered at a Bryan fast-food drive-through Saturday night.

While parked and waiting in line at McDonald's, she and her passengers - a 9-year-old and a 92-year-old - got an eyeful as a pornographic movie played on a TV screen inside the car in front of them.

Offended by the X-rated material, the woman scrawled the car's license plate number on her hand and drove to the nearby Bryan Police Department to file a complaint.

Minutes later, police were able to locate the offending maroon 1990 Buick LeSabre with a ceiling-mounted TV inside. The vehicle was occupied by three Bryan men, all of whom are brothers.

After identifying the movie inside the car's DVD player as pornographic, police gave the driver of the vehicle, Thomas Nicholas Godoy, 23, a citation for obscene display, a Class C misdemeanor. After running a check on the two passengers in the car, police then arrested Jose Godoy Jr., 24, who had three active warrants for failure to appear in court in College Station. He later was transported to College Station and remained in custody late Sunday.

During a search of the car, police found a partial marijuana blunt cigarette in an ashtray and arrested the third man, Rito James Godoy, 21, for possession of 2 ounces or less of marijuana. He was released from jail Saturday night on $2,000 bail.

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/013006/local_20060130001.php

[Initech]

1. Doesnt surprise me at all!

One time I was getting on the freeway to go home, and the car in front of me had a Girls Gone Wild DVD playing in the backseat entertainment system.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. What a bunch of bullshit.

You'd think a 92 year-old would have better things to do with her time.

[DS1]

3. Texas

:hide:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. That marijuana thing smells funny. TOO convenient.

Just a hunch, 'sall.

[Richardo]

5. The "Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?" Award goes to...

What a carload of morons. I'm sure the smoke did not raise their IQ any.

[flvegan]

6. Idiots, and rightfully cited.

If I had a 9 year old, and he/she were exposed to porn like this, damn skippy I'd have done the same thing. No different than posting pics from Hustler to the inside of your car windows. I personally wouldn't care, as I'm not offended by consensual sex. But expose my kid to it, no way. Same if it were a snuff video, or a video on dogfighting or any other of the genres that are inappropriate to publicly display to children.

[xchrom]

7. snuff video?

that was not an opening to explain what i know.

[JVS]

9. I've seen a car with porn taped to the trunk

[Catch22Dem]

10. Was it a W04 sticker?

Pornography of the highest order!

[medeak]

8. been there

had a foreign film playing on dvd...unknown to me it had full frontal male nudity..

semis going by were honking...thank gawd it wasn't the highway patrol.

[Redstone]

11. Real surprise that they're dopers and petty crooks, isn't it?

Wotta bunch of losers.

Redstone

[Don Claybrook]

12. Does that mean, then,

that "dopers" tend to also be petty crooks and voracious pornography fans?

I'm just trying to understand the mind of the marijuana smoker according to your gospel.

[thefool_wa]

16. Didn't you see Fear and Loathing

"His pants will be encrusted with semen from consatntly j*cking off when he cannot find a rape victim."

Describes all the pot heads I know

:sarcasm:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. How big are car audio monitors?

Seven, eight inches?

And the woman who reported these guys would've been 10 feet or so from the screen.

Kind of reminds me of the old joke about the biddy who called the cops because the guy next door walked around naked inside his house.

"I can't see anything," the cop said. "The house is too far away."

"Of course you can't," the woman said. "You're not using these binoculars."

[LeftyMom]

14. Some are much larger

A quick little google showed some 13" and even 20" models.

That said, I thought one had similar privacy rights to home within one's car. Guess I should stop changing clothes while going down the road. :blush:

[ikojo]

18. Didn't you know the whole world was supposed

to conform to the standards fit for a 12 year old, even if you don't have a 12 year old in your presence or even in your life.

His car, his DVD player. That lady should have minded her business. The kid sees similar stuff on billboards, I know they do in Missouri and Illinois.

[LeftyMom]

19. We've pulled up behind cars with porno on the DVD player in traffic before

Sure, I've got a 4 year old but

1. I can distract him

2. He won't understand what he's seing anyhow if he notices

A 12 year old should have a pretty good idea of what sex is and looks like, so I'm not sure who the victim is here. While driving around with porno on the DVD is in bad taste, I don't really think it should be illegal. After all, I find violent movies and stupid humor offensive, should people get tickets for watching Arnie movies or Spongebob where I can see? :shrug:

Is it still illegal if you have tinted windows? You can get that done for $100 or so, or DIY for less than $30, seems like it's a easy enough way to avoid a ticket.

The real question is, what kind of wierdos watch porn with thier siblings? I can't think of many things I'm less likely to do with my sister. :puke:

[thefool_wa]

17. BWAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!

That's rich.

You know, they can't really do anything about that anyways. A girl-friend of mine in High School had a neighbor who liked to stand in front of his picture window naked when she was out in the yard. You would think that a 60-70 year old pervert exposing himself to a 16 year old girl would get him a ride to the joint for sure.

Not the case. The cops (who were called several times regarding this throughout our adolescence) told them repeatedly that there was nothing they could do because of the reasonable expectation of privacy he is due in his own home, curtains drawn or not.

This is the type of double edged sword we have to deal with living in a free society. It can be a burden (and just plain unsightly at times), but ultimately my friend's dad just built a bigger fence and problem solved.

As far as the porno-watching pot heads, well maybe they should only break one law at a time like good pot heads and stop giving the rest of us a bad name.

[Fox Mulder]

15. This is bullshit.

Pure bullshit.

Granny should mind her own business. :grr:

[hickman1937]

20. Probably wasn't Granny that got upset.

It was little miss 30something who now has a selfrightous brag to take to the PTA, or dinner parties. Her name wasn't published so she gets to call herself brave.

[Deja Q]

21. I saw a car double-parked... the BMW owner going well over a HANDICAP zone

That seems more worthy a cop call than watching two people do this in a car:

:bounce:
:rofl:

[LSK]

22. has to be made up

One of the passengers is wanted?

They found marijuana??

YEAH RIGHT!!!