Dear to whom it may not concern …
A couple of my father’s old friends were visiting one day. While they were all talking, one of them mentioned the ’shackled car’ incident which they all knew very well. “The shackled car?”, I wondered. So my father told us (me and my brother) the astonishing story. It’s a very strange, yet true, incident that took place in a GCC state back in the 1950’s or 60’s.
A woman, from a very powerful family, was being chauffeured around in her fancy car (women are not allowed to drive in that country). She was roaming the city, looking for her next prey, till she came across a handsome young man from the Levant region.
She asked her driver to stop next to the man and she told that man to hop in the car. He questioned why, she made it clear to him that she wanted him for the night.
For some unknown reason, probably religion, principles or intimidation, the man refused and immediately walked away. The vixen got so offended that she ordered her driver to run him over. The sycophant driver did as ordered, and ran the young man over! The man dies.
Some witnesses saw the incident and reported it. So later on the police arrests the driver who confessed to the crime.
Now the interesting part … during the trial, the woman denied she or the driver had anything to do with it, and when asked whose fault it was, she admitted that it was all the car’s fault. Yes! She claimed it was the car’s sole decision to run over the man.
So what does the authorities do? They acquit the woman and her driver and shackle the car and leave it in the middle of the street with chains all over it. Yeah, that showed all the other cars in town … not one single car was ever spotted again attacking more victims. Justice prevailed: the man has been avenged!
Where justice is denied, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
حكم قراقوش
Makes me sit up and take notice
welcome to the whole arab world not even GCC:)
the story of Yousef (peace be upon him) only Yousef was jailed.
welcome to my 7 months of hell
:shocked:
:mal5oom:
Qwaider: حكم قراقوش .. I had to google that to know what it means … very interesting!
Ghrab: la5meh!!
Nimir: yeah, but in some countries more than others
Mariam: you’re right, it does sound like it.
Isam: welcome to my father’s more than 30 years of hell! .. and it really WAS the closest thing to hell back then ..
my god!
i’m speechless!
in the same country sme3et eno ladies are not allowed to wear the seat belt in the car 2al la2ano bifasel ma3alem el jesem! :please insert smily 3am yul6oum houn:
bas el sara7a lisa fi ta’7alouf kteer bihal denyeh…in UAE some locals believe so wholehearted in the stories of jen and 3afareet…and they blame the jenn for so many things….once i heared a story where the people where totally convinced that a single woman (ejtema3eyan she’s not married) got pregnant min el jenni!!
and in Libya when a widow gets pregnant they claim that the baby “kan raged bi ba6enha” for all this time!
bas hai nahfeh
my grandma in palestine released a tight knot around my aunts thigh (six years old and just got bitten by a snake) thinking its gonna get her leg chopped off… my aunt died :s
they must have had a good lawyer :S