It is a phenomenon where parked cars outside of Chinese campuses will have beverages on their rooftops, signaling students that they are willing to pay for sex. Different drinks represent different prices. Just as shoes dangling from trees or telephone wire in many countries are associated with places where people can buy drugs, putting a drink on the roof or hood of a parked car in China preferably a BMW , would mean the driver is soliciting prostitution.
A pet bottle on a car roof means someone is looking for some paid action. Many recent articles about this issue, however, have been taken offline over the past two days from news sites such as Sina.
Screenshot of the Dec 11 announcement on the Tianjin Normal University website about parked cars with beverage bottles on them. The notice also included a warning that it is illegal for people to perform sexual acts in return for money or goods, regardless of whether such transactions would occur between people of the same sex or opposite sex. Around December 29, 18 days after the original announcement was allegedly placed, news of the Tianjin University phenomenon started spreading on social media in China.
On one message board , netizens questioned the veracity of the announcement, as it was nowhere to be found on the official website of the Tianjin Normal University. On December 11, they did post two articles, but one was about bank card skimming and the other was about the illegal recruitment of students for training programs.
Also, the font used in the screenshot and that used on the official website is not the same. The spokesperson compared such a warning to regular announcements about pickpockets, and emphasized that no students had entered the parked cars. During a days-long experiment in which a Baidu TV presenter parked the car outside of various universities in Hunan with a beverage bottle on the rooftop, it turned out that several students -some female and one male- actually did pick up the bottle and got into the car.
