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Police Cameras Catch Couples Getting Cozy


In the U.S., couples that publicly slobber over each other earn the disgust of the people around them ... maybe the errant empty beer gets thrown at them, but little else. In Beijing, however, PDA is sometimes viewed as a crime - - by accident. The city's widespread network of closed circuit cameras is monitored by computers, which, according to the Xinhua News Agency, may accidentally interpret public feels as something more sinister, such as kidnapping or robbery. The mix up can occur because the computers are programmed to monitor "violations of safe distances" between people. The computers are kind of like fathers who are overly protective of their daughters.

Though police officers will step in and determine if a dangerous situation is happening or not, the city has gone ahead and put up signs in police-monitored public places, which read in both Chinese and English, "You are entering a camera-monitored zone."

Hey, if it were up to us, PDA would be a punishable crime anyway. Isn't that what pay-by-the-hour motels are for?


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