http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090216/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_no_kissing


LONDON – Stop smooching.

That's the message of a new sign that went up outside a train station in northern England on Monday.

The goal is to stop departing passengers from pulling up in their cars at a crowded drop-off point and pausing to kiss each other farewell.

Virgin Rail says it installed the sign while refurbishing the station after a local business networking group said the place had to become more efficient.

But profit margins may have been a factor, too.

Virgin Rail says that if passengers want to share an embrace before they part company, they should pay to park their cars nearby where they can kiss all they want.


What next?

wow..i got nuthin

on the positive, new jobs now available - the kissing police (yikes)

Its not law though, they cant enforce it.

It falls under the Transport bye-laws, so technically they CAN enforce it!

We live in a mad world!!!!!!!!!!!!

good one Sassy - the bye-laws

I can make sure that all the females at least give a good kiss goodbye by volunteering my lips as a test subject.

Oh, but the 13 yr old boy shagging the 15 yr old girl and getting her pregnant, wait, there's 2 other boys that have doing her too is OK?

This one?

Baby-faced dad, 13, raises "broken Britain" fears


LONDON – Ahhh, Britain. The land of Shakespeare and the Beatles, Churchill and the Queen. Rolling green hills, groovy London shops, hip plaids splashed over raincoats and umbrellas.

Cut to the reality of 2009: the highest teen pregnancy rate in western Europe, a binge drinking culture that leaves drunk teens splayed out in the streets and rising knife crime that has turned some pub fights into deadly affairs.

Ahhh, Britain.

In the latest symbol of what some are calling "broken Britain," 13-year-old Alfie and his 15-year-old girlfriend Chantelle became parents last week. The news sparked a flurry of handwringing from the media — and even ordinary folk admitted it didn't help that Alfie barely looked 10, let alone 13, as he cradled his newborn daughter.

Alfie's father, who reportedly has nine or 10 children of his own, gamely promised to have a "birds and the bees" chat with his son to prevent him from producing a second child before he grows facial hair.

Somehow that was not reassuring.

Sir Bernard Ingham, once press secretary to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, told the Associated Press that people from across Britain's political spectrum are in despair over the country's social breakdown.

"It's an indication that we've lost our way, that people don't know the difference between right and wrong," he said of young Alfie. "The plain fact is society can't proceed on this basis. I think this is an indication of broken Britain."

Ingham said Britain's binge drinking and youth violence reflect the same general fall in standards and discipline.

There's more here!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090215/ap_on_re_eu/eu_broken_britain

Notice how they plan on making money - if you want to kiss each other good bye, pay for parking, so I guess it would look like a lover's lane early in the morning - wooohoooooo. Steamed windows, cars moving.

I'd be scared to ask, they would probably just make a sign about it.

Sorry, that's not a funny subject (the 13/15 yr old parents).

No its not funny, and when you read more about it, it truly is a pathetic situation all the way around. From the young girl who has had several partners, to the boy who looks like it doesn't have a clue, to the parents of both parties who are looking to make a buck off the deal and last but not least is the child that is going to be raised by these dysfunctional fools.

Have read on this and agree the child is the only one that will suffer the consequences. Which is so unfair.

However, I started the post regarding the no kissing signs posted in London's train stations and was just responding to your post.

lol