Beijou? Levou multa!
Agora, na estação Warrington Bank Quay, Inglaterra, o beijo é proibido. É o que regulamenta a criativa placa acima.
Tudo começou porque muitos casais que chegavam de táxi despediam-se com longos beijos na porta da estação de trem impedindo o trânsito dos outros veículos. A solução foi proibir manifestações mais calorosas na área de desembarque e criar um Beijódromo numa área reservada ao lado.
Pelo jeito nossos amigos inglêses estão copiando a cidade de Kuala Lumpur, na Malásia, onde você vai ganhar um ano de cadeia se te pegarem beijando na rua ou em qualquer outro lugar público.
O que podemos acrescentar? Talvez que poderiam ter desenhado um beijo um pouco mais romântico.
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Station calls time on kissing (UK train station bans goodbye kisses because it holds up trains)
The Manchester Evening News / Various ^ | February 16, 2009 | Dean Kirby
Posted on segunda-feira, 16 de fevereiro de 2009 10:49:48 by Stoat
Station calls time on kissing
Dean KirbyFebruary 16, 2009
RAIL stations and romantic farewells go hand-in-hand. Tearful clinches as the train prepares to leave - immortalised by Trevord Howard and Celia Johnson in the classic film Brief Encounter - have always pulled at the heart-strings.
But not at Warrington Bank Quay Station, it seems.
A No Kissing sign has been put up at after concern that commuters were being delayed by passionate embraces.
It is now prohibited to do nothing more than shake hands at the station taxi rank.
If lovers insist on puckering-up, they now have to go to a designated kissing area. The signs were put up during a £1m station revamp - but the move has set the tongues wagging.
Jenna Seddon and Andy Ross
Amy Swain, 21, who was travelling to Lancaster with her partner Malcolm Kenny, 23, said: "I don't see the point in the no-kissing sign. I don't think it'll stop people. But the kissing sign is good, although it might be upsetting if you're single."
John Finney, 29, from St Helens, said: "Someone in an office somewhere must have a good sense of humour.
"We're law-abiding citizens, though, so of course we won't be breaking the rules."
His partner, Lynne Surgenor, 24, from Glasgow, said: "His car was parked beneath the kissing sign and I thought he'd put it up as a joke. It made me laugh."
Train passenger Jenna Seddon, 23, from Warrington, said: "I think the signs are quite sweet. It's romantic and a bit of fun. It'll stop people from holding up the traffic as well."
Ruth Hardman, 31, and Alan Dawson, 36, were heading home to the Lake District.
Gob-smacked
Ruth said: "I was gob-smacked when I saw them. They should spend the money on something more worthwhile."
The idea of putting them up in Warrington was suggested by Colin Daniels, the chief executive of Warrington Chamber of Commerce.
Mr Daniels said: "It was all a bit of fun. But now Virgin Trains have agreed to erect them as part of the refurbishment.
"They may seem frivolous, but there is a serious message underneath. They certainly make our station unique."
The first kissing zones emerged at American stations in the 1950s for wives to say goodbye to husbands heading to work. But then the village of Deerfield, near Chicago, hit the headlines in 1979 when it created a `No Kissing Zone' at its station after complaints about passionate couples causing traffic delays.
A couple were arrested in India last September after claims their kiss outside a Delhi train station left commuters `feeling bad'.
But an obscenity charge was over thrown by the courts earlier this month.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; cheshire; england; greatbritain; kissing; kissingban; nokissing; nosnogging; rail; train; uk; unitedkingdom
Kissing banned at railway station - Telegraph
Kiss goodbye to Brief Encounters as train station puts up 'No Kissing' sign Mail Online
Ban: The sign put up at Warrington Bank Quay station in Cheshire
No smooching: Warrington Bank Quay railway station
A classic scene from the 1945 film Brief Encounter with Celia Johnson playing Laura Jesson and Trevor Howard as Dr. Alec Harvey
But the village of Deerfield, near Chicago, hit the headlines in 1979 when it created a 'No Kissing Zone' at its station after complaints about passionate couples causing traffic delays.
A couple were arrested in India last September after claims their kiss outside a Delhi train station left commuters 'feeling bad'.
But an obscenity charge was overthrown by the courts earlier this month.
Fonte: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186667/posts
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