I certainly am glad for both China and Reuters’ Oddly Enough, for continuing to bring me stories of a blogworthy nature. This one, thankfully, features neither dismemberment nor bad puns blending the words dating and decapitation. (Apologies for that, really.)

This story involves the sordid affair of people hugging and kissing in public, and then finding out that this public display of affection had been recorded and uploaded to YouTube!!!

The three-minute video of the couple in their 20s was shot in September and uploaded to Youtube and Chinese video-sharing Web sites last week, Tuesday’s China Daily reported, citing a local newspaper. It drew more than 15,000 hits in two days, it said.

“A mocking voice can be heard in the background of the video. It has extremely embarrassed the couple,” the paper said. The couple had hired a lawyer in the interests “of all passengers traveling on metro trains in Shanghai,” the paper quoted the unnamed man in the video as saying. “Now every time I walk into a metro station I feel uncomfortable,” the man said.

That must have been some mocking voice.