I don't get it either

but it sounds like an art installation to me. Probably a video camera stationed across the street. Or at least, I would add one if it were my piece.

Phone Booth Offers Condoms for Sale (AP)
AP - A public telephone that mysteriously gives free local calls has been given an odd companion —a condom machine. [Yahoo Oddly enough]

The dispenser, charging 25 cents per condom, has been installed in a phone booth across the street from Penn State University's main campus.

"I'm just surprised," State College resident Stephanie Morgan said Monday. "There used to be a free phone here, but it didn't have condoms."

Nearby businesses said they did not know who installed the phone, which offers free local calls, or when the condom machine was installed. A representative from Verizon, which provides local and long-distance phone service in the area, told the Centre Daily Times of State College that it had no record of the phone.

A sticker on the condom machine simply reads: "Because this is a public establishment —and considering the AIDS crisis —management, by placing this condom-dispensing machine, is taking moral responsibility in providing its patrons with a lifesaving choice and is neither approving nor disapproving of any particular behavior."


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