Man seen watching porn in McDonalds (From Watford Observer)
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Man seen watching porn in McDonalds
2:13pm Wednesday 11th January 2012 in News
The restaurant in The Parade
Customers at McDonalds in Watford were shocked by the unusual sight of a man reportedly watching “hardcore pornography” in full view of dinner-time customers.
The man, described as white, in his late 30s, and wearing a chequered black and white jumper and jeans, was sitting at the front of the restaurant in The Parade last night.
One customer, who asked not to be named, said: “He was blatantly watching hardcore pornography.
“There was no sound but the screen wasn’t even slightly hidden, it was in the middle of the table. He was sitting there as if it was just a normal film.
“He was towards the tills, to the left, sitting on the end chair. The screen was facing upwards so anyone above him or walking to the toilets could easily have seen.
“It was 6.30pm and there were children everywhere. The restaurant was full with about 20 people, young girls, teenagers.
“I don’t know exactly who witnessed it but there were people sitting next to him on the right hand side.
“It’s played on my conscience a lot, I have two young girls and I could have been in the restaurant with them.”
The man said he told the duty manager what was going on and was disappointed by the reaction.
He added: “When I told the manager it was like I was speaking a different language. It’s not something they come across every day so they probably don’t know how to handle it.
“I wanted to close the door and call the police, at least if he had run off the police could use the CCTV.”
Lucy Aldington, a representative of McDonalds said the CCTV from the restaurant showed the manager approaching the man, asking him to leave “within seconds” of the complaint.
She added: “We sincerely apologise to this customer for any offence caused. We are a family restaurant, and have stringent measures in place on our free WIFI to block websites that may contain adult material.
“We operate a zero tolerance approach to anyone found viewing illicit content in our restaurants and when alerted, the customer was immediately asked to leave by our restaurant management.”
Comments(15)
theturpster
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9:49pm Wed 11 Jan 12
I would expect it to be akin to a school network if their prime target is children.
LSC
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11:27pm Wed 11 Jan 12
HornetBrad
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10:40am Thu 12 Jan 12
Most probably just a video loaded onto his iPad/laptop - no internet filter will stop that as it doesn't come from the internet!
HornetBrad
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10:41am Thu 12 Jan 12
buckler
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4:32pm Thu 12 Jan 12
chrisptrifle
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9:18am Fri 13 Jan 12
buckler wrote:Whichever it was, I think he was more interested in the baps.
Wonder if he had a Fish or Meat Burger?
jesus loves you
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4:39pm Fri 13 Jan 12
I guess that the Macky D IT team have lots more to do that just stop joe public surfing - more like thickies forgetting passwords etc...
Must remember not to have mayo in my fliet o' fish next time (do they still do them?)
Graham27
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5:11pm Fri 13 Jan 12
G_Whiz
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5:21pm Fri 13 Jan 12
Anyway, Are the police taking an interest, or as usual trying to fob it off as a civil matter?
Lot's of obvious questions the Observer should be asking.......
Roy Stockdill
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7:53pm Fri 13 Jan 12
DAVE THE HORNET
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8:24pm Fri 13 Jan 12
badgerbright
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11:10am Sat 14 Jan 12
RealityStrikes
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7:18pm Sat 14 Jan 12
Have you seen the staff in the average mcdonalds ? Chances are you WERE actually speaking a different language ...
lutondown
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10:28pm Sat 14 Jan 12
Roy Stockdill wrote:Your right there Roy, perhaps the complainant would be taken more seriously if he hadn't gone on and ordered a milk shake!
Couldn't have been any worse than the food there, surely?
DrRobotnik says...
3:32pm Wed 11 Jan 12