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A QR Code on Some Heinz Ketchup Bottles Leads to a Hardcore Porn Site, Apparently

You scan a code thinking you're about to enter a contest, and the next thing you know you're assaulted by boobies and dicks.

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A German guy named Daniel Korrell thought he was entering a design-your-own-label contest when he scanned a QR code on the back of a Heinz ketchup bottle. Korrell, a true condiment fan and apparently one of the only people to actually use QR codes, didn't get what he was expecting. According to European news site the Local, the QR code brought him to a porn site, where his eyes were savagely assaulted with boobies and dicks instead of wholesome bottles of sauce.

It turns out that the ketchup label contest Korrell wanted to enter ended in 2014, and Heinz's ownership of the contest URL had since expired. German porn site Fundorado ended up registering the address, which probably used the word "EZ Squirt" or something. The whole mixup was just an honest mistake, not some innovative ketchup PR move.

Scarred by the pornographic images and robbed of his chance to design a ketchup label, Korrell turned to the Heinz Facebook page, writing "Your ketchup is probably not for minors," [translated from German]. The Heinz social media team apologized and offered to let him design his own label. That's nice and all, but the gesture was one-upped by Fundorado, who offered the guy a free year-long subscription to their porn site.

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