With all the crazy characters out there, shopping can often be a spectator sport for the rest of us more mundane browsers. Or it can turn into a free peepshow, as patrons of a California strip mall found out this weekend when two people who’d reportedly just met started humping each other in public.

The owner of a dress shop at a Chula Vista, CA strip mall filmed a video of a man and woman rolling around outside her store, making out and generally getting busy with each other, reports ABC 10.

Those inside her store included moms shopping with their underage daughters for prom dresses and a 17-year-old trainee starting her first day on the job, making the whole thing even more uncomfortable.

“It was unbelievable,” the store owner said, saying it seemed the pair was oblivious to onlookers at the crowded mall in the middle of the afternoon. “They were rolling on the ground making out and getting sexual.”

The first 15 minutes the twosome — who witnesses said had apparently just met on a trolley — kept their clothes on, but then she says, she heard the man suggest they take things to the next level. He then stripped down to his birthday suit while she kept her skirt on.

“Her legs were in the air and the guy was on top. We were so shocked our mouths were just opened,” she said.

After security failed to show up, the store owner called the police to get the show to finally stop.

When police arrived, it turned out the two didn’t know each other’s names. Neither one seemed to mind the cops getting involved, the store owner said. Instead, they were “cuddled up” while the police gave the woman a ticket. The man was then taken away in handcuffs, ostensibly after getting dressed again.

Sex in broad daylight: Shoppers in Chula Vista get an eye full [ABC 10]

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