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Couple's naked protest causes gridlock
Two lovers banned from seeing each other by their parents brought traffic to a standstill when they stripped off and threatened to leap from a bridge.
The couple kept police and rescuers at bay for more than two hours as they stayed locked in a passionate clinch on a flyover 30ft above a motorway in China.
"Our parents say we can't be together but we want to show people we have nothing to hide," they told a bemused crowd in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.
"We won't come down until everyone has seen how much we mean to each other and that our parents will never be able to pull us apart," they added.
Bridge protests have become common in China, but public nudity is still considered scandalously shocking.
"We waited for the high wind and the cold air to cool off their passion and eventually they gave themselves up.
"Our biggest problem was blocking the traffic so motorists didn't drive into each other trying to get a better look," said a police spokesman.
SagePhotoWorld
5:59pm on 21/2/2013
So where was the edge of this bridge? Looks like they were right in the middle to me.
Louisa Gieldon
6:13pm on 21/2/2013
The "edge" could mean the side of the bridge, not either end.
Kevin Jennings
10:38pm on 21/2/2013
They're still in the middle that way too. Look at the photo!
barbara
12:37am on 22/2/2013
It would hardly have been referring to 'either end'. You can't jump off an end - the end of a road bridge just merges into a road, not mid air! But the couple are clearly not near an edge.
movvi
7:39pm on 24/2/2013
They are clearly at the side or edge, but there's a wall there, so there was no risk of falling, and it seems to me that if they had jumped, they'd have had a very short fall. So I agree, Sage - in theory, they were standing on a road by a wall. Bit silly, really!