In Lebanon, nearly a thousand people die every year in car accidents. It's not that the roads are unsafe, or the cars aren't street legal. It is not because traffic cops don't even know the rules much less enforce them. Accidents just happen, and people die. Lebanon's roads proved unsafe for Generation 4 Merkavas, yet teenagers popping wheelies on their home-made scooters are common sights on busy highways. It's all innocent fun, and accidents just happen. Just like the tens that have been accidentally shot and killed throughout the country the past couple of... millennia?
But I am curious to know one thing though. I wonder if YASA keeps these stats. Does the rate of fatality drop when a car is protected by some type of religious iconography? If so, which icon is the most protective?
2 comments:
Good article Jamal,
I remember having read, between 2005 and 2006 (probably around new years) an article written in the famous l'Orient le Jour, blaming the fall in the alcohol market in Lebanon on Syria...
I thought the analogy is pretty amusing don't you think?
Regards
Sad condolences for the death of our beloved Darwish.
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