SHARJAH — Two men died in separate traffic accidents in Sharjah, one of them being a husband who fell under the very wheels of the car in which he was teaching his wife to drive. Both the accidents occurred due to a gross violation of traffic rules and regulations.
"Okay, Fatimah, the pedal on the left is the brake ... no the left, that one is the ... no Fatimah that's ... aiiiieeeeeeee!"
The first occurred in Ibrahim Al Midfa road, police said. A traffic police investigator said that the man was teaching his 36-year-old wife how to drive in the car, which is not designed as a motor-driving school vehicle. The wife failed to control the vehicle, as a result, it jumped fast and the man fell under its tyres.
Idjit. Safest place to be is in the car.
He sustained serious injuries and died on his way to the Kuwait Hospital. Police said people should abide by rules and not resort to teaching others how to drive in normal cars that are not equipped for the purpose.
And to let their daughters take drivers-ed when they're sixteen, not thirty-six.
A 19-year-old national youth died after his car hit the pavement and palm trees on Al Zahra road. Police said that the youth was driving at a high speed when he lost control of the vehicle, veered towards the pavement and rammed it into some nearby palm trees. The motorist died on the spot.
Now that sounds like ten thousand places in America. Youth, beer and speed, a lethal combo.
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Hang on a second. Woman are allowed to DRIVE in Kuwait?!
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Not Kuwait, Sharjah, that's UAE. Some places there are trying to keep with time, build infrastructures that would kick in when oil runs out and such. Jihadis? A few, but quite unappreciated. Usually they go to other places where fighting goes on to die off and fullfill thus their Darwinian destiny.
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Same thing happened over in Houston, wife drove over cheating husband, claimed it was a "accident". Problem was, she ran over him four times and they had it on video.
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Sharjah is good duty. Nice hotels, resturants, golf courses, etc. Very westernized - strong British influence - progressive monarchy/educated and somewhat liberal for even an UAE emirate. Not to be confused with Soddy but more like Dubai!
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Zenster. Firesign Theater. Haven't thought about that for awhile. Feel like deja vu all over again.
A female camel has been sold in Oman for RO90,000 ($234,000), the official Oman News Agency (ONA) reported yesterday. The transaction took place in the wilayat of Al Kamil wal Wafi in the eastern Sharqiya region. ONA said the buyer was a UAE citizen, but did not give his name. 'Bint Mashhoor', the camel, owned by Shaikh Hamoud bin Nassir Al Hashmi, recently won the first position in a three-kilometre race in the region, finishing in four minutes and 25 seconds.Â
She's also reputed to be 'easy'.
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Oh, I thought those cigarette taxes were high, but this was rediculous...
The trial of the rights activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja was adjourned yesterday until November 3, at the request of his lawyers who wanted more time to prepare a plea bargin comprehensive defence on the merit of the earlier insanity pleading. Head of the four-member lawyer team defending the executive director of the now-dissolved Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), Mohammed Ahmed, explained to reporters that "we asked for more time to submit our case on the 'merit', which is, having the focus on the nature of accusation itself." Referring to the Article 165, Al Khawaja told the court that the law under which he was facing the trial, was unconstitutional. When asked, lawyer Mohammed Ahmed said that the time given by the court for the next hearing was 'satisfactory' and it will enable us to prepare what has been asked by the court, without having to hasten to meet the requirement.
"Please don't beat me!"
Al Khawaja faces charges of demanding the resignation of the Kingdom's prime minister blaming him for the overall poverty, and the general deterioration of the national economy, although the Kingdom's economy has been registering a healthy growth over the years. However, when the Khaleej Times pointed out to him during his last trial on October 20, that he had spoken harshly against the government and that there was a taped evidence to prove it, so how can he deny saying so, Al Khawaja paused a while and after quickly changing his stance, said: "I do not remember saying so."
"Um ... wudn't me."
"And you can quote me on that!"
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TONY BLAIR backed plans yesterday to allow 24-hour drinking, despite fresh warnings from senior police officers that it will add to existing problems. Speaking at his monthly press conference, Mr Blair said that there was no reason why Britain could not have licensing laws that allowed people to drink in the way they would in any other European city. He said: "The notion that we should stop everybody in the country doing that because there are some hooligans that get fired up with drink on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night and go out and beat the place up — no . . . What we should be doing is dealing with the problems." Police and councils could shut clubs and pubs where there were regular problems. Alcohol-related disorder was a "real problem."
"We need to take specific measures against those types of people and the premises that they are using," he said. "The ordinary, law-abiding citizen who wants to have a drink after the cinema or theatre has closed should not be deprived of that ability because you have got some hooligan or thug who goes round beating people up after drinking." Mr Blair's words came as the Association of Chief Police Officers voiced concern over the relaxation. Chris Fox, its president, said: "The Licensing Act per se is not the problem. The problem is the conduct of premises and the planning process that goes on now. Both the planning, the licensing and then the conduct of big drinking houses don't seem to be improving. What we are saying is that if all we are going to do is to extend the time they are open, this will extend the problem."
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A chink of sunshine in the gloomy world of today's British justice system.
A 73-year-old farmer who shot a burglar after being broken into three times "could not be criticised" for the way he defended his property, a judge said yesterday. The case, less than a week after the alleged murder of a 45-year-old west London teacher by a burglar, seems certain to revive debate about how much force home owners can use to defend themselves and their property. Judge Andrew Hamilton, sentencing the burglar to seven years in jail for a string of similar crimes, said it was "a pity" that prosecutors had even thought of bringing charges of assault against the farmer, Kenneth Faulkner.
Mr Faulkner, who has lived alone at isolated Keys Farm, at Ockbrook, Derbyshire, since the death of his wife two years ago, was first burgled by three men in July. During the raid they broke into a gun cabinet and took five shotguns, a longbow, arrows, a crossbow and bolts. Then one of the gang, 22-year-old John Rae, returned alone in August and stole a mechanical digger. When he went back the next day, Mr Faulkner confronted him and fired his shotgun, hitting Rae's leg with pellets.
After hearing that the Crown Prosecution Service had only recently told the farmer that he would not face charges, Judge Hamilton told Rae at Derby Crown Court: "Mr Faulkner believed he was being targeted - and he was entirely right. "He wrongly believed the burglars had come back armed with those guns that had been stolen. Very sensibly he took out his shotgun. "Nobody could criticise him for what he did. For him it has been a most harassing and terrible incident. "It is only a pity that charges were considered against him. Sensibly, the decision was made - which I entirely agree with - that the matter would not be pursued." Michael Auty, prosecuting, said the "primary reason" that the CPS decided not to charge Mr Faulkner was that Rae had been left with only pellet wounds in his lower leg.
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What really stikes me is this guy who is a human crime wave only got 7 years? This is right up there with 15 years for double homicide. I can't understand that.
The online converter says in USD this is $92,020 as the value of the stolen property and $12,882.80 property damages. That is alot of money for regular folks to lose through theft. He should stay in jail till he pays it back with interest as you say Bulldog.
Well if Rae is typical of his family perhaps shooting is too good. How about drowning? Perhaps we can manage a car ful of them at once.
As for Burglars, if you break into my home after dark I will shoot first and and question later. I will fear for my life and you will be shot. I will shoot at the center of body mass until you are not a threat and are stopped. I will then call the sheriff and wait for him to arrive. If you should die in the mean time it's sad but not my fault. I would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
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Good God, a sensible decision and an almost prportionate sentence form a British court. Wonders will never cease.
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Good to see a glimmer of hope for the wishy-washy rights-for-criminals-but-not-for-their-victims system of 'justice' that has spread through western society like a virus.
It spread to South Africa in the nineties, but you had to be a black criminal to reap the full benefit of it. Two of them broke into the house of a friend of a friend late at night while he was working on his computer. He fired two warning shots over their heads, but in a stroke of bad (or good) luck, depending on how you look at it, one bullet ricocheted off the lintel over the doorway and killed one of the intruders. The last I heard, my friend's friend was charged with murder.
It's apparently just not on to defend your property and your life. You are meant to sit down and have an interview with the intruder to find out whether he's armed and whether he just intends to loot your possessions or to do you and your family harm as well.
As the old saying goes, I would kill the fucker and question him afterwards.
(Oh, yea, there is also this image of hand holding a shotgun on the sign, not necessarily I have one, but a hardwood baseball bat right behind the door is the closest thing. Well, in the woods I live, the only visits I am getting is from Jehovah Witnesses. When I tell them I am a Satanist [not that I am really one], the conversation is kept to 1 minute time frame and they usually apologize for inconveniencing me. :-) ).
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My father used to tell the door to door evangelists that he was an orthodox pagan, and describe the midnight sacrifices, the wild dancing, calling up the spirits... they usually couldn't leave fast enough. I think they were afraid they'd be caught by the lightening bolt...
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My wife, who by the way is a much better shot than I am, believes that if you have to shoot someone, you shoot until the gun is empty. If they are still moving, reload and repeat until they stop moving. She prefers a 9mm, but I have always thought that there are few things that focus one's concentration in a dark house than the sound of a round being pumped into the chamber of a 12 guage.
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Maybe the limeys will get back to sanity after being disarmed. The US has a problem also. If you shoot someone in self-defense, most likely you will be sued by the perps relatives or friends, Handgun Control, etc.
The 9 mm is a little light weight although easy to control. The 40 cal or 45 cal has better knock-down power.
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#17 "Why all the Jehovah's Witnesses bashing ..."
What on urdth? Where did you get that idea? I did not bash them! My baseball bat was peacefully resting in the corner.
I just told them, politely, that I have a contrarian religion. In fact, last time I was hesitant, the two young chicks were stunningly cute and peachy. Unfortunately, the payment would be too high for the peace of my mind.
John Q., shoot the perp terminally to reduce chances of being sued by relation or brothas.
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Jehovah's Witness bashing? I thought we were laughing at door to door evangelists. But OK, I'll give you this joke if you want. Question: What do you get when you cross a Jehovah's Witness with a Universalist Unitarian?
Answer: Someone who goes around knocking on doors without any particular reason.
Yeah, yeah, I'm here all week. Try the veal, and remember to tip your waitress...
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OK my pisspoor contribution - who survives the next big quake? JH's - they're in everyone's doorways..
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I vaguely recall from my sojourn in Georgia, the story of a lad no more than 10 who came home from school and found someone dragging his mother out of the apartment and into the parking lot.
He went to the closet, loaded his late daddy's rifle, walked out onto the balcony, and nailed the miscreant with one shot to the head.
Cops showed up and said "mighty fine shootin', boy."
Damn civilized state.
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