Comments on: Skating in Saudi Arabia!

By: Oh dear, i'm just walking through-cannot disclose name - prefer Anonymity

Oh dear, i'm just walking through-cannot disclose name - prefer Anonymity — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:56:37 +0000

LOL!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:34:20 +0000

From camel to Cadillac…literally. I live in Saudi Arabia…and one of the coolest things in the minds of most young teens is ‘drifting’. In my city they even have an area in the outskirts called ‘The Square’ which is literally a large empty block a mile long on all sides with a huge open space on one of the corners in which they come racing a whole mile and do huge drifts before reaching the open space. Lives have been lost…all over the nation…but seeing a new style come up, I don’t think we’ve seen the end of it.

By: Haitham

Haitham — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:37:35 +0000

Are you telling me that non Bedouins don’t do such thing (and worse)? Ok, what does make a man/women civilized? Oh… maybe walking naked in the street!

Crocker, your comment is racist and as ignorant as those guys you describe, don’t you think so?

PS. No doubt they are stupid… but hey, so is G.W. Bush

By: Crocker

Crocker — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:22:47 +0000

That’s exactly what happen when the Bedouins own cars instead of camels. Pure ignorance and piles of stupidity.

By: rana

rana — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:18:06 +0000

future leaders of the arab world…

By: ressentiment

ressentiment — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:42:18 +0000

I’ve done sillier things when I was young and just as dangerous. It’s the nature of youth to thing you are invincible. It actually looks kind of fun if you don’t think about what could happen to the poor idiots.

Must be nice to have roads so smooth you can do that too. Here in the States you’d get half a mile before you’d face plant in a pot hole on our best highways.

By: diinnaa

diinnaa — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:08:58 +0000

he3 he3 he3 he3 he3, but seriously that’s amazing, this is what happens when u have lots of free time

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:56:24 +0000

You think that one is bad, check out Saudi “street drifting”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRZWzcPqgNI
Note that this “passtime” is done on public streets, DURING traffic, with bystanders standing all over watching at close range. There are DOZENS of these videos if you just search “Saudi Arabia” on you tube.
It was dangerous enough traveling on the roads 25 years ago when I was there.
I wouldn’t dare to venture out to the souk if I thought I might run across a group of these death-wish idiots!!! Ayeeee!!! and not so funny when you see what could and does happen while participating in this “activity”.
(my daughter found these clips last week)
Maybe the above video is a demo ad for Heelies!! (shoes with retractable rollers built in that the CHILDREN drive their parents nuts with here in the States)

By: bassel

bassel — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:51:34 +0000

can they do this on our streets ?

By: Ibrahim Owais

Ibrahim Owais — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:07:48 +0000

They have to do a new version of jackass for Saudis …