Sex, Cries On Videotape Prompt Suit Against Store

A doctor is suing Sam’s Club, claiming the discount chain sold him a video camera containing a tape of sex and animal cruelty, which he unsuspectingly played in front of his wife and children.

Dr. William Carson, a doctor for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and his wife, Marguerite, bought the camera at one of the chain’s Tampa stores on Oct. 9, said Steven Yerrid, attorney for the orthopedic surgeon.

At home, the couple and their 8-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son sat down to watch a tape they thought the children had taken.

Instead, they saw people having sex and sexual organs and the 20-minute torture death of a rat, Yerrid said.

The tape also contained scenes of the inside of a Sam’s Club that could only have been shot from behind the camera counter, according to the lawsuit filed Friday.