# Always, ALWAYS check your camera before you lend it out. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2007, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345 "2007-02-08T10:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/21 "2007-02-09T23:57:27Z")
Semi related: Years ago, I remember reading about a couple who did their honeymoon in the Poconos. Years after that they went back and decided to rent /subscribe to some porn for their enjoyment. Turns out the hotel had been video taping couples and then renting them out and they happened to rent their own. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/22 "2007-02-10T00:08:44Z")
[That’s a UL.](http://www.snopes.com/weddings/newlywed/video.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/23 "2007-02-10T00:18:40Z")
Several years ago, Dad lent me his new digital camera to take to a party. When I switched it on, it was on “view” mode, and on the screen was something I found decidedly unpleasant. I’m glad he has a healthy sexual relationship with his new wife, but I didn’t need photographic evidence of it. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/24 "2007-02-10T00:23:29Z")
A friend wanted help working out what was wrong with his computer…but kept stopping me whenever I went near the ‘start’ button. When I finally got to click it, it was pop-up porn-spyware heaven. Bless him, he could run a pub in the roughest part of town, but couldn’t let me see that. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/25 "2007-02-10T00:29:10Z")
[QUOTE=Madd Maxx] You saw his porn video too? What is it, on Youtube? [/QUOTE] I speak only of his lovely upper arms, which I have had the opportunity to view in person. The rest of him was fully clothed and there was no sexual congress happening at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/26 "2007-02-10T01:11:23Z")
**fetus** : Jeez, how awkward. This is not quite the same thing, but it would have been terribly embarrassing all the same if the “star” of the video had known about it. Years ago, some friends and I were listening to a cassette (so you know it was years ago!). Just a regular, store-bought cassette, which you normally can’t record on, unless you close up those holes on the top corners. Someone had figured out a way to do that, because when the music ended, we heard an unaccompanied voice singing a very raunchy parody of "Born in the USA’. Of all songs. “OMG,” says the owner of the cassette. “ **That’s my dad!** ” Another of those cases where you just tell them it wouldn’t play. And I think I told before about being in my sister’s house, in the bathroom, looking for something to read while answering nature’s call. There were some magazines on the hamper. I was prepared for Playboy, Penthouse, even Hustler. What I was not prepared for was to open an issue of Cosmo and have nude photos of my sister’s husband fall out. **gigi** : You haven’t seen **Clerks** , I take it? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/27 "2007-02-10T01:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Damn, he’s built, too! My eldest son’s first birthday was recorded by friends of mine who were a cohabitating couple. They had borrowed a video camera from their school on the Friday to tape it for us on Saturday. When we reviewed the tape later, we rewound a bit too far and saw the beginnings of homemade porn. Did I mention, her parents were in the room with us? :eek: [/QUOTE] Now that Matt is getting older, let’s stick to homemade birthday cake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/28 "2007-02-10T03:19:17Z")
A woman I worked with bought a camcorder in a pawn shop; it came with a tape in it—she swore it was awesome home made porn but I never saw it. Good story, though. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/29 "2007-02-10T04:36:24Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] Okay, well, labial piercings are not uncommon, not nowadays, anyway. But a ring in the hole is one thing. A padlock is quite another. [/QUOTE] Makes ya wonder – does he have a key trading porn buddy? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/30 "2007-02-10T20:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] Okay, well, labial piercings are not uncommon, not nowadays, anyway. But a ring in the hole is one thing. A padlock is quite another. [/QUOTE] Modern day equivalent of the chastity belt? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/31 "2007-02-10T22:11:28Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] The only thing that disturbed me about the whole thing is that almost all of them were returned “accidentally” in kid’s titles. Which makes me wonder if it wasn’t so accidental, and people were getting their jollies thinking of kids watching them do the deed. Urgh. [/QUOTE] Naw, they rented _Beauty and the Beast_ for the kids so they’d shut up and leave the parents alone for 2 hours. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/32 "2007-02-10T23:49:02Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] Modern day equivalent of the chastity belt? [/QUOTE] That’s what I figured. In light of the fact that this was the guy’s own house, what would really be horrific would be if she was his sex slave that he keeps in the basement, with his wife’s knowledge, although not necessarily wholehearted approval. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/33 "2007-02-11T01:05:19Z")
Holy Shit, **Rilch** , My naughty bits crawled up into my rib cage at the very idea-the weight, the PAIN! Unless it was a special piercing padlock…in which case-never mind! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/34 "2007-02-11T01:29:23Z")
Ah, **Ginger** , tell them the whole story already! 😉 While I have never starred in any homemade entertainment, I have stopped lending my cell phone to others, due to a certain ex’s new hobby of sending me pictures of various parts of her anatomy whenever the mood strikes her. As to my upper arms, well, you should see the new facebook picture. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345/35 "2007-02-11T05:23:40Z")
Wow, **Happy**. I used to call my exes at odd hours of the night, but we were _talking_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/always-always-check-your-camera-before-you-lend-it-out/391345.md?page=1)