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[F/Dog/NC]
The dog begins the "date" with a quick kiss to the lovely Lisa's mouth. Fresh
from the shower, the bitch has no lipstick and so King just gets a nice
receptive human mouth to slobber his tongue into; at least, the girl's mouth is
receptive in so much as it is open to try to voice her protests.
America's Most Em-BARE-ASS-ING Home Surveillance Videos: The PILOT
Your host of humiliation, mkarl
Story will contain [F/Dog/NC]
Hot on the heals of North American's finally getting the good taste to
stop watching trek like America's Funniest Home Videos comes this totally dated
attempt by mkarl to cash in on the concept for an erotic spoof.
READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION!
Consider if you will: a studio setting, a crowd of voyeuristic fans, and
a smarmy moronic host who thinks he is funny, these are the building blocks
that establish the illusion of a television show environment modeled after
America's Funniest Home Video's. It was a show that lasted way too long where
people submitted their own embarrassing home videos in an attempt to earn small
cash prizes for their humiliations. It led me to wonder just how great a
humiliation a person might be willing to expose to a national audience in order
to get their "15 minuets of fame."
For the purpose of this story, please allow that there have been several
videos already aired as this is a contest show, but frankly for convenience's
sake, I will only be illuminating one shameful scenario here. If the story
goes well enough for my own enjoyment, and if anyone else likes the format
enough to let me know; I may make this a series. For now I simply hope you
enjoy the rather awkward situation Lisa Baum of Sacramento, California recently
found herself in.
***
Mkarl: [the host] "Okay, that was "MOMMY CAUGHT WITH THE PAPER BOY" and "DADDY
DOING THE BABY-SITTER."
Crowd: [smattering of applause]
Mkarl: "Our next most em-bare-ass-ing home surveillance video was
submitted from Sacramento K9 Home Protection Services and stars a very lovely
twenty-year-old, brunette. For those keeping score at home the relevant
numbers are 5'6" and 110 pounds, with a very curvaceous 36C-23-34 to complete
the package. Great legs, great face, great rack, and a mouth watering ass all
played their "parts" to have our hero, Mr. IAMA DEVIPERV, select miss Lisa Baum
to get a little more than she bargained for when she recently was put in
contact with Sacramento K9 to provide her with protection from the big, nasty
world. Ladies and Gentleman, put your hands together for Mr. IAMA DEVIPERV.
Crowd: [polite smattering of applause as a rather average if not actually
unattractive guy enters from stage right. He waves at the crowd even though
they really couldn't care less]
IAMA: "HELLO AMERICA'S MOST EM-BARE-ASS-ING HOME SURVEILLANCE VIDEOS."
Mkarl: "MR. DEVIPERV, I must say I have already previewed your video, and I
must say that I give you my full cock salute."
IAMA: "Thank you, it was something the guys were thinking for a while with all
these young single cunts out there acting like they could ever be safe. I mean
the dumb bitches are coming to us for the protection instead of getting
themselves a husband like they should, so by the time miss Baum entered our
preview, we had King ready for action."
Mkarl: "King is the rather "LARGE" Great Dane that stars in the video we are
about to watch."
IAMA: "Exactly, A very bright animal, and delightfully well "equipped" for the
mission we were assigning to the lucky beast. I have to say that a couple of
us weren't all that sure we could train him just right, but maybe King is just
a extremely special dog, or maybe we just got damn fortunate cause as you can
affirm from having watched the video yourself; we really got a WINNER here,
huh?"
Mkarl: "It was a unanimous vote from our judges, but it is only fair that the
audience sees that you were a very worthy winner in our inaugural pilot episode
of our show, so please why don't you quickly finish the background so we can
start to roll tape.
IAMA: "Yeah, right, well, as I said, women belong at home bare foot and
pregnant. Nothing pisses me off more than when I ask a bitch out and she
thinks she can say no. Way the boys and I figure it, the situation is getting
worse with all these cunts leaving home and trying to live on their own or with
other cunts like fucking lesbians or something. I gotta tell you that at least
75% of our requests for home protection systems come from these little bitches
like they are going to deny even the guy that wants to break in the middle of
the night. Anyhow, we got to make a living so we put the systems in, but it
really pains me to see some special piece of ass and know if I get that urge
the next Saturday that I ain't going to get my satisfactions if I drop back for
a late night visit."
Mkarl: "And you get that urge a lot?"
IAMA: "Sure, don't we all. That's why we came up with the plan to have King
ready to go, and his training wasn't complete more than a week when we got the
contact from the senior Mr. Baum that little Lisa was out on her own and the
dude wanted some protection for princess."
Mkarl: "So it was actually the father that set up the daughter? He wasn't "in"
on it, was he?"
IAMA: "Daddy? Naw, he just gave us a phone and told us to head on over to 788
White Street cause he wanted us to install some perimeter cameras and provide
the little angle with a K9."
Mkarl: "Okay, so you head over to the apartment and I guess Lisa wins what was
behind door number two."
IAMA: "Sure, I did the call myself, and first thing I think when I lay my eyes
on this cunt is that I could have myself a good time breaking that little bed
of hers in the master bedroom. Anyhow, the bitch has it all going on: the long
dark hair, those "fuck-me" eyes, those "made-to-be-kissed" ruby red smackers.
and I'm playing it cool, right? I ask the cunt about a boyfriend and stuff but
you got to be there to get the attitude."
Mkarl: "She's not in to doing the bump and grind with you?"
IAMA: "No, and the bitch is looking at me like she is just too damn good for it
all. I think she didn't even want to leave us alone in the apartment for the
camera installations, like we were going to fucking thieve something. It
really made me smile when finally the cunt had to run off to class leaving us
to get busy."
Mkarl: "Okay, so you decided to install the surveillance cameras throughout the
entire apartment to ensure your able to capture all the action, and than you
called back to the kennel for King."
IAMA: "Well, of course, with a K9, it is a little more complicated. We got to
give the cunt some lessons to familiarize her, slut-self with the animal. I
mean King had himself a program trained into him that would really be a
spectacular show, but in order to best be assure that the stupid cunt would
never have an opportunity to come back at us with any ignorant law suits or
nothing, than we had to make it all look accidental like it was all the bitches
fault to begin with, if you follow what I mean."
Mkarl: "Right, so this is a little convoluted, but basically you trained a dog
to administer your own version of justice to a young bitch who had dared to say
no to you; and through circumstance, the lovely Lisa Baum of 887 Whyte Street,
Sacramento was selected to be that bitch getting your justice."
IAMA: "That was that, and now that we had our fun with the cunt for these past
five months we are going to win the $10, 000 top price tonight by letting the
whole world know what a humiliated dog-raped bitch, Lisa has been, so shout out
to you princess if your sitting at home, smile cause daddy may be watching."
Mkarl: "ROLL TAPE NOW."
***
The view changes and we are suddenly watching through the eyes of the
many hidden cameras which had been secretly installed throughout the private
single apartment of twenty-year-old, Lisa Baum. The voice that accompanies the
footage is that of the humiliated girl herself, coerced from her with the
thoroughly laughable promise that her cooperation would save her this public
unveiling.
"Hi, I am Lisa Baum, 20 years old. I used to have a shitty attitude
about guys. I left home last year to attend university here in Sacramento,
California. After someone broke into my apartment and boosted my crap, dad
decided I needed a dog to be here when I was at class. I always liked dogs so
I thought it would be cool until the guys at Sacramento K9 Home Protection
Services decide I was going to be shown a new way to be the "bitch" I always
was and to find out why dog" are really called man's best friend."
Our view shows Lisa: walking from her room to room, eating, brushing her
teeth, laying snuggled under the comforter in her bed, and even sitting on the
toilet to establish that every ounce of her privacy is ours to enjoy. Lisa
continues the voice over as the view changes to profile a very handsome animal.
"This is King. He is behaving himself at the moment, but don't let his
demeanor fool you. I guess they want me to make this good so let me tell you
all that King is a first class stud. I never knew that he was a stud when he
first came to my apartment. All I was looking for was a watch dog, so I had no
way to suspect that what he would be watching for was an opportunity to jump my
ass. I guess I am suppose to say I deserved it for looking too good and being
a cock teaser, so whatever you all want to hear to make sure my family doesn't
find out about this. If you all want to be so perverted to enjoy my
humiliation than get ready."
The footage shifts back and we see Lisa in the shower. Water beads down
her luscious, deeply tanned body. The lighter shade of her tits, pussy, and
butt reveal telltale that Lisa isn't the type of girl to get too adventurous
with her nudity. She isn't altogether sexless though as she keeps the shower
head applied between her legs for longer than a "clean" girl needs too. The
image blends to Lisa standing in front of her mirror in a pair of very snug and
naughty black panties with a matching bra framing her great tits. Lisa is
brushing her lovely, long dark hair before she puts the brush down and goes to
shut the door as we see King in the hallway. Her voice over starts again.
"I know now that there was never going to be a chance for me to escape.
Not with King here watching everything I did. It disgusts me to know that
those bastards at Sacramento K9 were also watching and waiting for the "big
show." Well, I may not have had any chance to escape forever, but I did last
the entire first week and most the second. The way that asshole,
beeeeeeeeeeep, explained it to me, him and those other assholes wanted the
video to show I turned the fucking dog on by getting naked so I couldn't turn
around and sue or anything, but it's my fucking apartment. Anyhow, I don't
parade around showing it all off or anything to begin with, so I was
frustrating the whole shitting setup into I heard the phone rang that Thursday
and this is what the hell happened."
Camera shows Lisa in the shower again. She is naked and soaked to the
bone. Water drips from her long dark hair and streams down her slender elegant
neck beading on her beautiful, firm breasts with their hard, little erect
nipples. More streams of water flow down her firm, taunt belly and soak her
neatly trimmed bush between her legs before dripping down in a steady pour from
the lips of her nearly virginal pussy. The sound of the phone is heard over
the patter of the water spray onto Lisa's mouthwatering body.
"Fuck," we hear the not so ladylike exclamation from the young woman as
she hurriedly stumbles out of the shower grabbing her body towel for modesty.
The phone rings again and again as Lisa navigates the door to her washroom and
than begins the dash down the hall to her kitchen. She doesn't have a chance
to avoid King as he steps in front of her from the spare room.
"SHi." Lisa begins as she tumbles head over ass and crashes
unceremoniously to the floor. The crash is rather spectacular and claims the
girl's towel as a casualty. Lisa is down on the floor and BARE-ASSed naked.
The phone rings again as the camera unfolds the little drama for our
enjoyment but Lisa no longer has answering the call as her number one priority
because she suddenly is very much in a struggle to save herself from becoming
her dog's new girlfriend. Her voice-over documents.
"See, the assholes had programmed this dog to wait until I was naked and
than do me. I don't know if he fucking tripped me on purpose but here I was
knocked on my ass and this beast starts growling at me like I think he is
pissed that I fell on him and he is going to rip my throat out but I don't know
he is going to take his pound of flesh in a far more perverted way. You will
see that I was fucking freaked here so I never wanted this shit, but since I
can't stop anyone from watching I have to tell everyone it was the fuck I
deserved for being such a bitch."
Now the action is in full swing. Due to time constraints, the footage has
been edited to be more of a highlight reel. [The full 100+ hours of Lisa's home
surveillance videos will be available from PornoVision's distributions as soon
as they are processed. Mail mkarl2000@hotmail.com to reserve your copy's today]
The dog begins the "date" with a quick kiss to the lovely Lisa's mouth.
Fresh from the shower, the bitch has no lipstick and so King just gets a nice
receptive human mouth to slobber his tongue into, at least, the girl's mouth is
receptive in so much as it is open to try to voice her protests, [actually, the
footage shows the girl acting all grossed out and trying to break the kiss
almost immediately. THE BITCH!!!]
Lisa tries to climb to her feet but King isn't about to let his fuck
escape that easy. The big dog pounces and the full weight of his powerful body
sends Lisa back down proper to her hands and knees in classic bitch pose. She
feels the first scratch as his claws find her delicate skin.
"FUCK, KING. DOWN BOY. OWWW!"
King growls at Lisa and it doesn't take a linguistic expert to realize
that he is telling the cunt to shut the fuck up cause he doesn't like his
bitch's yappy. King goes to give her another wet, sloppy dog kiss to her
shocked, wide-open mouth."
Lisa is squirming like such an ungrateful bitch. The young woman still
obviously thinks she isn't going to get fucked. Like the slut actually has any
chance of escaping her righteous education that not only is a girl like her
nothing but a cunt for men, but on the grand scale, any cock is above the
bitch, even dog cock. All Lisa's squirming does is get her stepped on a few
times as King doesn't have quite enough room to properly dog-handle her in the
confines of the hallway.
The dog decides to fix the situation and takes a firm bite of Lisa's
long, beautiful, wet hair between his powerful jaws and begins to yank at her
to begin the trip back to the master bedroom which was going to be his new room
for nightly activities. The camera capture's Lisa's painful protests and cute
little skid as she is dragged like a rag doll to her new status as a dog's
bitch. In the background the phone finally stops ringing as call display would
later reveal that mommy gives up on her little girl, not knowing just what
princess was about to be up to, or is that "underneath of???" Lisa's voice
over tells the tale.
"On the phone was my mom. I guess that makes it worse, that if I could
have just got there, she would have been able to call the police or someone to
send help. The shitty walls of my apartment are so paper thin that someone
should have heard me screaming bloody murder, but I couldn't come out and yell
that I was being dog raped or anything, and I guess the neighbors were like
fucking assholes that thought I was getting what I deserved too. No one came
to help me at all, and that fucking dog was like biting my hair and dragging
me. I was still thinking he was going to kill me so I was terrified, but I
think I would have fought harder if I knew what that animal really wanted to do
to me."
The footage captures as the dog backs his big, beautiful body into Lisa's
master bedroom dragging his captured bitch behind him. Lisa skids off the
linoleum of the hallway onto the carpet of her bedroom as she manages to spin
from her back over onto her belly. King momentarily loses his bite full of her
hair but quickly snaps a second mouth full as he positions himself more at
Lisa's side for domination. It was time to try that human mouth thing he had
been trained for.
***
"We pause briefly for these paid considerations."
"The midwinter replacement season is here for PornoVision so stay tuned.
Projects based on Star Trek, The X-Files, and Who Want's To Be A Millionaire
are joining the lineup within the next two months. Viewers interested can talk
to the program manager at mkarl2000@hotmail.com with their requests or
suggestions."
"Now back to our regularly scheduled program."
***
Camera brings us back to mkarl and IAMA DEVIPERV.
Mkarl: "Okay, you have to let us know how you trained King, to go oral."
IAMA: "Sorry, tricks of the trade."
Mkarl: "Well, it is nothing I have ever seen before so lets roll camera cause I
want to see it again."
***
The image of the still naked and beautiful, Lisa Baum is back on the
screen. The camera shot captures the priceless look on her face as the first
few tears have started to roll down the helpless bitch's face. Even in her
state of shock, the wide opened panic that fills her brown eyes next
acknowledge that she is aware of what the dog is now attempting. The voice
over confirms that assertion.
"O-okay. This is it. I was hurting and scared, but I guess that is what
all your sicko's looking at this like. So the dog was like pulling at my hair.
and growling at me and I was afraid he would fucking bite my neck. And his,
his, his SLIMY DOG COCK, was out. I can't talk about this part."
The cameras continue to roll as Lisa is awkwardly maneuvered ever so
systematically to the point where she is mouth to cock with the dog. From the
complicated penetration angle, the actual insertion is unfortunately obscured
from view. All that is left for our enjoyment is the struggled gasps and moans
as little Lisa suddenly has several inches of doggy cock in her mouth. King
demonstrates the remarkable flexibility of his animalistic talents as he
continues to compel the bitch's oral cooperation while securing his own
pleasuring with a rapid humping of his slimy cock in and out of her mouth.
Perhaps most amazing of all, is the dog's suddenly demonstrated impossible
awareness of camera views as he maneuvers to un-obscure the money shot.
SOMEHOW THIS DOG'S TRAINING HAD HIM KNOWING WHERE THE CAMERAS WERE!
Lisa chokes and gags as the big dog cock fucks her mouth. Unable to
break off, she drools undignified as the dog's knot secures in-behind her teeth
and locks her in place. The length of the massive cock is just enough to be at
the girl's throat as it starts to spurt it's clear, pungent spray of sperm.
Lisa has no choice but to spend the next nearly half hour desperately drinking
down dog cum to save herself from drowning. However, that action is rather
boring for prime time PornoVision display, so lets move on.
"I had to drink it, and it tasted yucky. I never swallowed before. He
was like stuck behind my teeth and my mouth was forced open and that dog just
came and came until I couldn't drink anymore. Some of it leaked out of my
mouth and I felt like such a filthy skank when he finally pulled out but it
wasn't done yet. He started licking himself and I started to try to get away
but than he jumped on me again and bit my hair. I screamed and told him to get
the fuck off me and leave me alone, but he was holding me between his paws and
that's when he, when he fucked me."
The camera now shows the big dog mount the cute little bitch. Lisa is
trying to crawl away but the big dog outweighs her and his powerful forepaws
dig into her ribs for traction. The dog's bite of hair is the final insurance
that the girl can do nothing but give it up as he begins to search for her
unprotected cunt with his big potent puppy-maker.
***
Mkarl: "OKAY, Well, as fucking fantastic as that doggy oral was, this is the
stuff that wins you the $10 000 this week over "kid caught wanking off in mom's
panties," so why don't we set the stage just briefly. You had no idea that
puppies were possible?"
IAMA: "Fuck, a guy thinks about that shit, but everyone says like no way. I
mean we had the cunt under observation for the two weeks so we know she ain't
protected, but it was too much to hope for that she ends up bred."
Mkarl: "And yet that is exactly what happened. I understand that as of today,
Lisa is just on the verge of delivery?"
IAMA: "Yeah, we were hoping she would be here with the pups tonight, but she is
in labor as we speak. Anyhow, it has been a fun five months. We got Lisa to do
the voice overs before she knew she was bred and still thought she could escape
the ultimate humiliation with her family and all, but now that she has puppies
and we are showing her breeding on nation wide TV, guess she is well deserving
as the title of most humiliated bitch in America."
Mkarl: "Let's check out the first known documentation of a dog breeding a human
female."
***
We now get the image a zoo fan can never tire of. Human female, naked,
Beautiful, and utterly helpless; with canine male, in full, nature splendor,
powerful forepaws wrapped firmly in place to secure total domination as his
length begins that magical search for it's temporary home.
Nature's little quirk of giving the average dog the aim of a nearsighted,
crossed-eyed, redheaded stepchild, prolongs the anticipation of the viewer as
we get the clearly humiliated tones of the lovely Lisa's voice to once again
provide commentary.
"Okay, I guess I have to see this and share what I was thinking. I
guess, I was like really scared. I felt disgusted that dog had fucked my mouth
and I wanted to get sick that I drank all that disgusting dog sperm. I could
feel him trying to put it in. I am suppose to tell everyone that I was a
virgin. You can see hear where these sicko's put everything in slow motion
that King wasn't able to find me at first. I felt him push it into the back of
my legs and stuff, and almost up my ass. Right, there and, there. It really
hurt when it almost penetrated my ass there. I was still trying to get enough
strength to crawl away from the dog, but you can see he was draped right over
me and I felt like over 100 pounds of him weighing me down. I guess I am
suppose to point out that you can see from the camera that King's forepaws are
down around my waist and hooking my legs to keep me in place. Anyhow, it sure
didn't seem that long when it was happening. Mean like how many times he tried
to stick it in. All I remember was like screaming cause it was so BIG. I guess
this is going to be it so just watch since I can't stop you anyhow."
On screen we see the dog's long, slimy length of dog cock complete with
swelling bulge being thrust again and again to find the girl's cunt. Lisa is
in classic doggy position and with the exhausting process of supporting the
beasts weight, she is forced down somewhat as her knees spread a bit and the
force of an impact knocks her to more of a three point stance onto her elbows
instead of her hands.
The dog SCORES and powers his huge cock into Lisa's pussy.
Can a dog ever be said to be smiling? The look on King's face with his
mouth open for heavy breathing, and his long dog tongue lapping out seems to be
a huge smile as he secures his bitch for breeding. Long powerful thrusts seem
designed to ram his knot in before it swells up to it's full softball size. The
only indication as to his success is left in Lisa's new mind-numbing scream
which we can only assume is the shock of getting that 10 inches of diameter
fucked into her, as unfortunately, the dog's own hind end is now obscuring the
money shot.
We get around three minuets of simple humping until suddenly we see the
front door to her apartment open and three men enter. From her bedroom, while
hungup with the dog, Lisa can do nothing but freak as she has no idea who is in
her apartment.
Even as the men enter her apartment, ski masks obscure their identities.
"Hi Lisa," one of them says.
"Who are you? How the fuck did you get into my apartment?" Give the
girl points for being coherent and even poignant.
"Relax princess. We are just going to make sure we have some nice
close-ups of the action so we can get some footage of King's seed leaking back
out of your pussy. Afterwards you can blow us all too."
Lisa probably wanted to just die as the guys than used their hand holds
to get right in close for the remainder of her first fuck. The way dogs sperm,
she was taking the potent seed in her almost at once. With that big puppy-maker
stuck in her, all she could do was helplessly take it as spray after spray of
the dangerous seed was squirted deep into her womb to begin its efforts to
impregnate the girl.
Finally, the dog is finished, and for all intents and purposes, so was
Lisa. It would take a couple weeks to confirm conception, but allowing for all
the weirdness of cross-species breeding, she was already likely bred at that
very moment. A dog needs to lick itself to cool down, but the three guys made
sure Lisa did that job as a special thank you to her King.
***
Mkarl: "Absolutely fantastic, While, Mr. DeviPerv, it gives me great pleasure
to award you the grand prize for this first ever edition of America's Most
Em-bare-ass-ing Home Surveillance Videos. I will also be sure to enjoy all the
other wonderful tapes you made with Lisa over the last five months. To tell
you the truth, I think have the laugh is that this bitch basically cooperated
with you until the tapes you continued to make got so incriminating that she is
at this point unable to escape you even if you put her on nation wide TV."
IAMA: "Well, she always had that hope somehow her folks wouldn't find out, but
I understand a copy of this show is going to be express mailed to them
immediately following sign off."
Mkarl: "That's right, so I imagine there is a little phone call being placed to
the humiliated slut right about now. Anyhow, you are more than invited to film
her at the vets when she delivers her pups, and there is an open invitation to
reenter our contest anytime your home surveillance cameras capture some new
humiliation of an unsuspecting cutie. That offer goes out to the world, send
your ideas to mkarl2000@hotmail.com"
All viewers comments, questions, concerns will be addressed. Please let us
know what story you are primarily replying too and maybe what site you saw this
story at so I can make my replies meaningful and possibly tune you to other
stories of mine you might enjoy.
The current volume of stories is now more than 60 and growing all the time.
Thanks for you support, Mkarl Jan 8, 2000
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