Gawker: It Is Not Safe to Break Up in a Burger King Any More

It Is Not Safe to Break Up in a Burger King Any More

http://gawker.com/5857507/it-is-not-safe-to-break-up-in-a-burger-king-any-more

BY ADRIAN CHEN

November 8, 2011

Web developer Andy Boyle was hanging out in a Burger King when he overheard a married couple having an argument that "Aaron Sorkin couldn't write… any better." So he live-tweeted the whole thing, with extensive multimedia.

Check it out. It is an impressive piece of eavesdropping! And also a terrifying example of crowd-sourced surveillance. From now on, it's best to activate a portable cell phone scrambler to stymie any nearby Twitter users whenever you're going to have embarrassing personal conversations in public... http://gawker.com/5857507/it-is-not-safe-to-break-up-in-a-burger-king-any-more  

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A study in marriage disintegration, with anthropological data collected in the field by Andy M. Boyle on Nov. 7, 2011. Location: A restaurant... http://gawker.com/5857507/it-is-not-safe-to-break-up-in-a-burger-king-any-more

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