Saturday, January 5, 2008

EDITORS OF MOVIES NOW BRANDED HYPOCRITES

BY MICHAEL DOSSIER / Jan 25, 2008
The DVD Dossier

From the Department of You Can't Make This Stuff Up comes this little nugget of joy:

Daniel Thompson and Issac Lifferth - owners of the now defunct "Flix Club," a video store that rented edited movies from which all the sex, violence, objectionable and blasphemous content had been removed - were arrested following the disclosure that they had paid for oral sex with two teenage girls for $20 each.

In addition to charges of sexual abuse and unlawful sexual activity with a minor, Lifferth was also charged with patronizing a prostitute and the possession of a prescription drug medication without a prescription.

Police who searched the Orem, Utah store said they found pornographic videos, with as many as twenty copies of each title.

The men came under suspicion when the mother of a 14-year-old girl found a twenty dollar bill and asked her daughter where it came from. The girl admitted that she and another girl had traded sexual favors with the two men.

Flix Club was apparently a franchise operator for Clean Flicks. Hollywood studios and the Director's Guild of America brought a successful copyright infringement suit against that company in 2006 and Flix Club was finally shut down last month.

Bail was set at $30,000 for the former purveyors of family-friendly films.

(No word on any late fees that may have been charged.)

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