Last week, Scott Beale tried snapping a picture of Google’s booth at a tech industry conference, only to be blocked by the company’s public relations team.

But that didn’t stop Beale. He shot off a quick one-liner about his displeasure to his Twitter account. Within the hour, Bob Lee, a software engineer at Google (nasdaq: GOOG – news – people ), replied that he’d look into it. Soon, Google apologized.

An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600’s reaction as the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.

The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. “It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.

Alpher and his Palestinian partner exchanged puzzled glances at the comparison of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie fighting over Brad Pitt, but because they had both received a fee for their appearance, and still hadn’t completely internalized that their interviewer was not exactly who he seemed, they soldiered on.

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