Family hospitalized after exposure to pornography

A Rhode Island family is suing Verizon, claiming they had to be hospitalized because the cable company made the Playboy Channel available on their TV even though they didn’t request it.

Robert Bourne and Denise Roy of Warwick, R.I. say that between March and August of 2008 they “continually” asked Verizon to stop broadcasting the Playboy Channel on their TV, but Verizon failed to do so. This failure was “extreme and outrageous so as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and is atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized society,” their lawsuit claims.

As a result, the couple suffered “great pain, anxiety, nervousness and mental anguish” and seek compensation for “hospital care, medical care and attention, medications, and other materials and supplies.”

“The emotional distress suffered by the plaintiffs is so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it,” the lawsuit states.