A policeman checks identities of women who visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 as the all-important Party Congress approaches. Beijing usually tightens security for high-profile political events, and this one is the most pivotal for the Communist Party in 10 years. But sometimes the measures can pass into the downright bizarre. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A policeman checks identities of women who visit Tiananmen Square in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 as the all-important Party Congress approaches. Beijing usually tightens security for high-profile political events, and this one is the most pivotal for the Communist Party in 10 years. But sometimes the measures can pass into the downright bizarre. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A vendor takes pictures for his customer in front of a policeman checking identities of people near Tiananmen Gate in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 as the all-important Party Congress approaches. Beijing usually tightens security for high-profile political events, and this one is the most pivotal for the Communist Party in 10 years. But sometimes the measures can pass into the downright bizarre.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)
BEIJING (AP) ? Don't roll down the taxi windows. Don't buy a remote-controlled plane without a police chief's permission. And don't release your pigeons.
Beijing is tightening security as its all-important Communist Party congress approaches, and some of the measures seem bizarre.
Not only have taxi drivers removed the window handles from their doors, but their passengers must sign agreements promising to keep their windows and doors locked.
People should get the say-so of a police chief to buy a remote-controlled airplane.
And the state-run Global Times newspaper cited an officer from Beijing's Chaoyang district as saying pigeon owners must keep their birds in their coops.
Most of the security measures were implemented in time for Thursday's opening of a meeting of the Central Committee. The party congress begins next week.
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