An 80-year-old Ketchikan city councilman, the city's former mayor, has been arrested on charges of possessing child pornography, police say. A Ketchikan computer shop called police on Friday to report that a worker discovered the images when John W. "Jack" Shay brought in his laptop for repair. Shay had been having trouble printing, said Deputy Police Chief Josh Dossett. "When they hooked it up and started it all up, the printer began printing items that had already been queued in the printer ... it turned out to be child porn," Dossett said. Shay has been charged with 10 counts of possessing child pornography. Prosecutors may add charges as police review evidence found Friday in his Ketchikan home, Dossett said. "We found additional printed-off material of young children performing sexual acts," Dossett said.
You have to believe this guy just wanted to get caught, right? Like I'm glad another perv is off the streets, but there's no way this was a mistake. No one prints stuff anymore unless they're at work, especially not pictures from online, do you know how much ink that takes? That shit is expensive. I can't even imagine the costs if it was in color.
I'm pretty sure the last time I printed a graphic at home was like 10th grade doing some kind of science project, I'd print out all these graphics from PowerPoint, thinking they'd look so slick, when in reality every other student was printing the same exact pictures because Windows Images only came with like 30 .gif's back then. I'd hit print, wait for the paper to come out, basically hang it on a clothesline to wait for all that ink to dry and then tack it up on those tri-fold poster boards. It was a ridiculous process.
Luckily right around that time adults began realizing computers were the way of the future and from then on out I didn't really need to print anything, just slap my presentations on a thumb drive and project them in class, that was really the end of the printing era.
So if my high school teachers could figure out a suitable alternative to having me waste gallons of ink to print some hokey cartoon image that came standard with Windows 98, I'm fairly certain this 80 year old, who was savvy enough to figure out how to use a Laptop (fairly certain my grandfather would end up using it as a paper weight or lap desk before he figured out how to get the thing running), I don't think its going out on a ledge to assume he knew he didn't have go to printing out pictures, could just bookmark and saved things whenever he wanted.
