Pedestrians of Oubei Town (瓯北镇) in the city of Wenzhou got an eyeful on Wednesday, when a large LED billboard located at the busiest intersection in town played a pornographic video for a full ten minutes.

Beginning at roughly 9pm, passersby began to notice something was amiss when they noticed the billboard, which normally sells cars, acting particularly raunchy. As the video continued its saucy spectacle, a large crowd of people (luckily no children) gathered in the intersection to watch, have a laugh, and record the evidence using their cellphones for, uhh, later research.

While we secretly hoped the stunt was akin to Andy Dufresne’s playing The Marriage of Figaro in Shawshank Redemption, it turns out the “culprit” was just a lonely office worker who didn’t realize the computer he was using for his private time was linked to the massive billboard outside.

Police were notified, but when they arrived about an hour later, they were undoubtedly disappointed to find the billboard resuming its normal operations of car advertisements.

The employee is now being charged with “disturbing the peace,” because police cannot prove he intentionally aired the clip.

The fact that the employee wasn’t charged with the obvious “possession of pornography,” which is illegal in China, leads us to believe either Wenzhounese have a strange definition of pornography, or there was a backroom “plea bargain” involving the video in question.



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