German Police Finds Old Adult Magazines in a Ditch, Claims Criminal ‘Distribution of Pornography’

NUREMBERG, Germany — Police in Bavaria, Germany, revealed today that they have found a pile of 1990s porn magazines in a ditch on the side of a road, and were seeking information on who had disposed of them to charge them with criminal “distribution of pornography.”

The official Twitter account of the Middle Franconia region — around Nuremberg — posted today about the finding and the intentions of law enforcement, with the hashtag #Hindweise (#Tips), requesting that local people come forward and identify the person who had disposed of the decades-old adult print publications. 

A German Twitter commenter replied, “Put those out in your break room and delete the tweet,” encouraging the Bavarian police to “take care of unenforced arrest warrants against Nazis” instead or “just take a vacation or a break.”

“But please don’t embarrass yourself any further,” the commenter added.

Germany — like France and England — is currently undergoing a public debate about porn’s supposed status as an “online harm,” among vocal calls by crusading groups to impose age verification schemes on tube sites and platforms such as Twitter and Reddit, which tolerate users posting explicit content.

In Germany, the efforts are single-handedly spearheaded by Tobias Schmid — an obscure, conservative local bureaucrat from the North Rhine-Westphalia region — and have recently resulted in the first national ban order on YouPorn, Pornhub and MyDirtyHobby.