More Tales from the Other Side (a.k.a. Mongkok)

While in Mongkok with our uncle, our mission also included -uh- seeing where you could get pirated DVD's. Our uncle led us to a shopping arcade, assuring us that all the stalls in this arcade were for such "fahn bahn DVD's" (pirated DVD's).

Alas, the entire shopping floor was completely closed down. These guys had been raided twice just last week! (Two amazing things here: first, that it happened just before we got there and secondly, twice? Didn't the rest of them figure it out when the first batch got hauled off to jail?) Anyway, there were two shops still open there, both porn shops (XXX movies). Interestingly, my uncle told us, because porn is basically illegal in HK, they don't have copyrights on the porn movies... as a consequence, these guys didn't get busted with the rest of the pirated DVD's.

The guys from the porn stores worked a seriously hard sell -- if you thought the guys from Future Shop were annoying, you haven't seen anything yet. The porn store guys were like (roughly): "Hey we have better than 3X movies! We have 4X movies!" And they were doing things like shoving business cards into our hands, and trying to herd us into their stores. They even went so far as to go down the escalators with us to try to convince us. It was really quite something. These guys really are working their butts off to get a sale. Kudos to the porn industry in HK for having such studious frontmen. If Safeway had these guys working the vegetable aisle, we wouldn't need to sell so much bran in Canada.