Road Rage In Baghdad?
The reporters can’t help it. That’s the way they think, and it will find its way into their writing, even if they tried to disguise it. In the pre-blog days we’d have to count on the paper printing our angry letter in order to point it out.
Posted by Oink
11/05/2005 at 08:42 AM
The f--ing author of that piece of trash from the NY Slimes has obviously never, ever driven a car in the Middle East! Probably has never set foot outside of his comfort zone in the Green Zone, if he has been to Bagdad.
Rule #1 of Traffic Law in the ME: There are no rules!
Chaos reigns even in a civilized country like Israel! In Cairo, Amman or almost any other major ME capital it is much safer to rely on taxis than try to drive yourself! And that observation is from personal experience folks!
The Hobo
My Dau/law tells me this has changed, but 40 years ago, in Bangkok, the main Boulevard was about about eight lanes wide. But there were no lanes. Sort of a non-Playstation, real-world “Twisted Metal”. I was on R&R from Vietnam and it scared me shitless.
Posted by Oink
11/05/2005 at 01:00 PM
My old dad hated Saigon for all the pedicabs and scooters. First, they were a traffic hazzard, then they were a VC sapper hazzard.
I guess this guy believed Mikey “I made $194 million pretax on F 9/11 and Halliburton has only made $163 million pretax on the Iraq war so I win!” Moore the War Profiteer’s vision of the peaceful happy Iraq in Shazzam’s day.
Useful, for an idiot.
Effing stupid reporters!! This what happens when you can afford to live in NYC. If this pedantic asshat had ever lived outside of NYC and had to drive thru it during weekdays on a regular basis he’d complain less.
Shit, you wanna real exercise in vehicular insanity? Try driving around in Manila. But first buy your self a surplus Bradley!!!!
I was riding in my spouse’s family minivan and the only thing that helped me avoid soiling my underware or killing someone was to keep kissing the wife.
