For this couple, the Kiss Cam became the Breakup Cam [UPDATE: It's fake]

The ballpark Kiss Cam traditionally broadcasts all manner of smooches, pecks, snogs, hugs, tender embraces and even high fives, but this might be a new one. The camera operators at a Fresno Grizzlies game last Friday appear to have captured one unhappy couple's breakup.

After her boyfriend repeatedly blew her off for all to see, choosing to continue a phone conversation rather than kiss, this girl was fed up. She dumped a drink on him and stormed off:

Was this a cleverly staged stunt, or a real-life lovers' quarrel? Either way, it teaches us a valuable lesson.

Let's say you're at a ballgame, and you and your seatmate have been targeted by the Kiss Cam. I'll break it down for you. You're not dating? You are now. You're strangers? Not anymore. I don't care who's next to you: if the Kiss Cam comes around, you're puckering up for him, her or it. The love of your best friend's life. Your best friend's elderly grandmother. A box of nachos.

This holds double, triple, quadruple true for actual significant others. Denying the Kiss Cam constitutes a capital relationship crime, and this guy is most definitely guilty.

UPDATE:

Is it better to have loved and lost, or never to have loved at all? As many suspected, the Kiss Cam video has been confirmed to be ... well, not real.

CBS47 anchor Zara Arboleda even tweeted a photo with the happy non-couple, both of whom work for the Grizzlies:

Told you! The couple who "broke up" on @fresnogrizzlies' Kiss Cam staged it. Now I have "official" confirmation. Ha! twitter.com/ZaraTV/status/…

- Zara Arboleda (@ZaraTV) May 9, 2013

Well played, all. Well played.