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You won't believe what I found yesterday.

I was at First Markham Place (a Chinese mall in my area) to look for a birthday gift for my mom/browse fake and cheap DVDs... okay fine, more the latter than the former. Anyway, I was shocked to find DVD copies of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "Batman Begins," AND "War of the Worlds" in a pile of movies labelled 5 for $20! But wait, it gets better. As if it wasn't shocking enough to see still-in-theatres movies being sold on DVD (obviously burned discs), also located in that pile of movies was.... "A Night in Paris!!!!"

Wait.. you don't know what "A Night in Paris" is? It's the PARIS HILTON SEX TAPE!!! (Oh boy, the hits to this website are totally gonna go up now that I've used those four words here....) The Chinese fake DVD store was selling copies of THE most infamous home video of the past year and a half! The funny thing is, it was just sitting there right beside all the other regular movies, open for everyone to see. There were many copies available in case you were wondering and looking to see Paris at night (and an "Effiel Tower" in Paris... if you know what I mean).

My friend Beatrice (who admitted to having seen "clips" of the video) and I turned to each other shocked and couldn't help but laugh at the naiveity of these shopkeepers. They were so non-chalant about it and didn't seem to be aware of what they were displaying. Perhaps they saw "Paris" and thought it was a foreign film? Although I doubt any subtitles are needed for this one.
posted by Tim at 2:10 PM