Target shoppers stunned when porn audio plays over the PA system

A shopping cart outside of a Target store.
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Shoppers at a Target in San Jose, California, briefly wondered if they'd accidentally wandered into the Hustler Store on Wednesday, when audio from a pornographic film was played over the PA system.

On the Campbell Mom Squad Facebook page, several people reported being in the store when the audio — featuring "sexual noises" and "sexual stuff" — came on, and said it lasted for 15 minutes. A person posting as the page's moderator said "there were seriously kids crying everywhere and not many employees willing to do anything other than laugh at it all." Another person posted a 30-second video she said she shot while in the frozen foods aisle, and said when it happened she was "shaking and so upset."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.