Living in the Middle East you see some shit.
As you may know, in the Arabian Peninsula where cars and petrol are cheap you get guys doing crazy shit on the roads. Look up car surfing or Saudi driving skills on YouTube and you'll see what I mean. There are videos of guys taking the tires off of cars while driving along on two wheels. Another crazy bastard drove down Jebel Hafeet on two wheels in a Nissan Patrol, a drive that is challenging enough on all four.

One afternoon driving to Abu Dhabi I saw the cops arriving on the scene of an accident in the median strip of the highway. One car was lying upside down on top of another, a perfect roof-to-roof match that ended up being hood-to-hood. Apparently someone's Madd Driving Skillz were not as good as they thought.

Another afternoon a pickup truck came rocketing past me on the same highway, doing a good 180-200 kph. About ten minutes later we saw cops just beginning to arrive at the scene of tire marks going up an embankment to a palm tree severed about eight feet above the ground and a familiar looking truck on its roof.

But the best are the families that drive down the roads with a toddler standing on the console between the front seats, one hand on each seat. I've taken to referring to them as extreme late term abortions.

The Middle East: it's even madder than you thought.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 16 Feb 2015, 18:48, 4 replies)

I heard that the destructive skills extend to very expensive military fighter planes.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 8:18, closed)

Did you know that they don't like The Flinstones in Dubai?
But Abu Dhabi do.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 12:53, closed)

I reluctantly smiled at that. Bugger.

(Porcupine, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 15:38, closed)

Narf.
I may need to steal that.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 17 Feb 2015, 19:51, closed)