Yesterday, because I hadn’t adjusted to the time difference, I was so tired by 6 o’clock that I couldn’t keep my eyes open, so I missed the dinner and the live version of the KOL’s passionate street kiss that’s been going viral in the group today.

Young people these days are really bold, but they were also lucky. I heard the staff tried to stop them several times. If a passerby had quietly reported them, they would have been in serious trouble.

I remember every year there are news stories about foreign tourists getting sentenced for kissing in the back seat of a taxi or embracing on the beach.

In 2018, an Egyptian man and a Moroccan woman hugged and kissed near the restroom of a gas station in Dubai. A staff member saw them through a window and called the police.

Both were sentenced to one month in jail and immediately deported after serving their sentence.

The gas station “kissing case” is a classic precedent and is often cited by lawyers as a reference. The people involved last night were just particularly lucky. There are actually quite a few similar cases—you can ask AI about them.

Some friends who were there said someone got drunk at the event and directly pulled down their pants to pee in the bushes nearby. If caught, that would also be a big problem.

Because urinating inevitably involves exposing your genitals. In Dubai, any act of exposing private parts in public directly violates Article 358 of the UAE Penal Code (public indecency), which usually means facing 1 to 6 months in jail.

For everyone coming to Dubai for the event, please respect the local customs and traditions.