'Pedobear' Storms Sex Offender's Coupon Ad

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Here's a bizarre little story. A Florida computer-repair business called CP Distributor is furious after a coupon-book publisher designed and printed an ad for the company featuring none other than Pedobear—the infamous cartoon bear known around the Internet as shorthand for pedophiles, perverts, child molesters, child-porn aficionados, and the like. The Smoking Gun, which covers the case here, figures the designer must have been playing a joke on the company because of its name—"CP" being itself an oft-used acronym for child porn.

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