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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Sex Pornographic Time Capsule Opened on Bainbridge Island

Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:52 PM

Kitsap Sun:

A cache of pornographic and sex-related items were found inside the ceiling of a portable classroom at Blakely Elementary School on Thursday, according to Bainbridge police... The collection included six pornographic magazines, several pornographic VHS tapes, unused condoms, a dozen women’s panties and a 2001 hunting guide.

Dates on the items indicated that the cache had been left in the ceiling about eight years ago, police said.

No crime was committed, the police added, and school officials announced that they're going to destroy the secret porn stash—including those rare pornographic VHS tapes.

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This is very important.

Posted by Thanks Dan! on June 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM

Shit, I was hoping for randy cave-dweller etchings, at least.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber

on June 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM

Am I the only one who's never heard of a "portable classroom" before?

Posted by Bonefish on June 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM

Eight years ago? Shit, I've got porn going back to the early '70s. (No, we're not going to talk about the Tracy Lords stuff.)

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on June 30, 2009 at 2:23 PM

VHS? Pfft! If there was porn on Betamax, then I'd be impressed. :)

Posted by Afreet

on June 30, 2009 at 2:27 PM

I read about something that happened like the right here in Seattle, but it was an actual time capsule that had been compromised and then left alone. Eventually, years later when the UofW opened it, hilarity ensued

As they cracked the capsule Thursday afternoon, University of Washington research team members expected to find a prim and proper package from the nifty 1950s.

What they got was a faceful of pornography, circa 1978, and dirty underwear.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/313431_ti…

Posted by Parker Todd on June 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM

Imagine what is hidden in the ceilings (and walls) of The Stranger's offices.

Posted by CommonKnowledge on June 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM

@3 - I bet you've been in one. When I was in school, they just called them portables. Basically they're like little mobile home classrooms.

Posted by Collin on June 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM

More importantly, were the panties used?

Posted by seattlebikeguy on June 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM

i think old porn would be very educational for kids - they'd see that women used to have hair on their vulvas.

Posted by Max Solomon on June 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM

Was it a beaver hunting guide?

Posted by Urgutha Forka on June 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM

i've got a helluva "time capsule" in the box underneith my bed...

Posted by michael strangeways

on June 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM

Destroy it?!

In this economy?!

Two words: E Bay.

Posted by Sili on June 30, 2009 at 3:40 PM

I think we can all agree it's disturbing that somebody kept his porn stash in an elementary school classroom, yes?

Posted by Greg on July 1, 2009 at 9:35 AM

When I was in college I found porn that was over ten years old stashed inside the frame of my dorm bed. It was my own private porn time capsule.

I did not destroy it I am afraid.

But I did start searching other bed frames in the building when I got a chance.

Posted by Learned Hand on July 3, 2009 at 10:31 AM