Just heard the most unbelievable story. A friend arrived to Beirut Sunday late at night from a short trip abroad and she took a cab and was heading home. She was dozing off in the backseat when her cab got pulled over on the airport road by masked gunmen who ended up driving off with her in the back seat. They started driving around shooting from the window so she started screaming. One of the gunmen put a gun to her head and told her to stop screaming. They continued to drive and fire their weapons out of the window so she started to scream again. One of the guys yelled to throw her out so without stopping they threw her out of the window. She was all bloodied up but there was a lot of fighting around her so she crawled to safety and then found shelter near the Sports City Stadium where she managed to call a friend who was able to come pick her up.
Freaky shit.
Firstly I hope she recovers physically and psychologically.
Second: Someone pray tell me what’s the fetish of Lebanese seeing their sinkhole as a blossoming garden of Eden? i am certain the relevant security authorities have already arrested the perpetrators!
Who says they were Lebanese?
You cannot force barbarians to become civilized.. it is against their nature and beliefs..
Road to Ouza3i
salemeta 🙂
I keep wondering how would a conversation go down between me and him if we met on the streets some day. what the fuck would we talk about? how did he end up like that? a narrow-minded, uneducated, oblivious idiot that roams the streets kidnapping and shooting people for no reason at all.
wlak k**s e**to hal balad … just like abou abdo would say: “arraftna za zalameh!”
Just glad she’s ok 🙂
Did anyone notice how EVERY year just before the summer season starts somehow out of no where the situation in Lebanon deteriorates drastically, to the limit that any “potential” tourist starts having second thoughts about coming here??? EVERY single year the same movie …
Its becoming a fad;) Terrorize the tourists away, kill the national economy, agree with foreign countries to mess us up, emphasize sectarianism, and feed the fires of idiocy and .. well, idiocy. It happens before the tourists come on New Years, spring vacation, and summer. The beginning of summer they throw a small “fettayshe” so they scare all the European tourists, and then give another blow another month later to kill of the courageous gulf tourists off! Ever since 2005. People have written about this, and are aware. But since none of the idiot sectarianistic leaders feel the need to unite under the Lebanese banner, they find it in their interest to feed the fires that divide us.
“Give me a media with no conscious, and I will give you a nation of sheep” Welcome to Lebanese stereotypes.
She is lucky they threw her away and did not take her to some unknown destination. There’s a Lebanese who was kidnapped on that same road few years back and still no news about him.
It’s quite sad what this country is turning into.
Is this 60 something nightmare ever going to end? It would be informative if your friend could share with your readers a few of her thoughts about her gruesome ordeal (obviously under a pseudonym). I am glad that she has physically come through this horrible experience hopefully without any lingering scars.
The sad thing is these situations keep happening over and over again and absolutely NOTHING happens to investigate them in order stop them. It’s so sad to see what Lebanon is turning into.