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Although this item about an errantly-returned amateur porn tape has all the hallmarks of an urban legend, including multiple versions with varying details, it is based on a real incident. In late 1986 in the small farm town of Council Grove, Kansas (pop. 2300), Morris County sheriff Corky Woodward rented a camera and a videocassette player from the only rental store in that town. Woodward then made an erotic 90-minute tape of himself and his wife Dannette but inadvertently left the tape in the VCR when he returned it to the store. The next person to rent the player got the tape as well, and soon hundreds of video copies of the couple's amorous adventures were circulating throughout town. As the incident was described in a contemporaneous news account: Despite the apparently true origins of this legend, versions with differing details started to spread across the country within a year or two of the original events: Sightings: In an episode of the 1990's television sitcom Mad About You (The Tape, original air date 24 February 1994), Paul accidentally sends tape of him being romantic with his wife Jamie to the Family Network, having mixed it up with a tape of a zoo documentary. Also, a 1999 Volkswagen commercial featured a young couple who realized they'd just dropped off a similar video at the video store; when they recognized their mistake and returned to the shop, they were greeted by the sight of the store's customers transfixed at what was playing on the in-store monitor. A slightly different version of this legend appeared in the 1996 film Trainspotting.
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