In what now seems to be a sad holiday tradition, a mother in West Chester, Ohio, tried to buy her seven year-old daughter a video game for Christmas, only for her child to discover a porn DVD when she opened the box.
Kristy Greider told WLWT that she bought Splatoon for her daughter at a Target a week before Christmas, where it was shrinkwrapped and locked in a case. Everything seemed fine on Christmas morning until she took off the shrinkwrap so her daughter could open the box—where she found a copy of Sensual Seductions 2. Her daughter was understandably confused and upset.
“I had to explain to her a little bit that Santa’s elves don’t make the video games,” Greider told WLWT. “They actually get them from the real stores and it had to have been a mix-up that Santa didn’t know about it.”
Greider received a gift card for the value of the game from a Target representative, but she isn’t satisfied. “I want to know how it happened and make sure that it goes up the flagpole and that Nintendo is made aware of it. [Target] said they’d pass it along and somebody would get back to me and I haven’t heard anything since.”
Greider, Nintendo and Target did not respond in time for publication.
Update - 1:00pm: A representative from Target sent Kotaku the following statement:
At Target, it is never our intention to offend any of our guests. We are aware of this incident, and we have been in direct contact with the guest. Additionally, we are in contact with the vendor.