Parking Problem
From the Arab Times:
Kuwaiti brothers critically hurt in gang attack over parking row
KUWAIT CITY : Eight persons broke into a Kuwaiti family’s house in Salmiya and attacked three brothers with knives, machetes, sticks and similar weapons just because the brothers did not allow a female student of a nearby institute to park her car opposite their house.
The brothers were critically wounded and had to be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital.
Securitymen, who rushed to the scene after receiving a call from their mother, managed to arrest one of the attackers but the rest of them bolted from the scene.
A case was registered.
By Mizyed Al-Saeedi
Special to the Arab Times
People here can get pretty riled up over parking. One time, my husband and I were attending a social event, and we parked on – well, it looked like a public street to us, and public streets, unless they have numbered, private parking, you are allowed to park on public streets because you are the public. That’s what we thought anyway.
When we came out, we had cars literally blocking us, forward and rear, from getting out. My husband approached the owner of the house in front of whom we were parked, who was around the corner in his diwaniyya (on the public sidewalk) and when my husband said he was sorry, the man said he could put his “assif” (sorry) in his pocket!
Not one to give up easily, AdventureMan schmoozed for a while. The man said he would have his driver take me home, and AM asked him if he would put HIS wife in a car with a strange driver. That got an appreciative grin. Long story short, finally he allowed us to leave. He had some legitimate gripes – the facility where we had attended the performance has people who block his parking access to his house all the time.
My husband visited him again the next day with a parcel of dates to express his appreciation for the guy having let us go, and visited the facility and helped arrange to insure that people would not park in front of this guy’s house again. He and the man became – well, not friends, but cordial acquaintances.
I’ve always been glad AM handled it in a gentlemanly fashion. Imagine, breaking in and stabbing people over a parking spot!
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tsk tsk tsk, over a parking spot, if its bothering them this much then they should drive her on and off whenever she finishes her whatever over there
Yeh, Wizardous, I am with you – breaking in to a private home with knives and machetes seems a little bit of an over-reaction to me, too!
That’s pretty insane 😦 !
I read that …. people are going crazy!
The stories seems incomplete. I’m not convinced that’s what their spat is about.
Wow… I guess Kuwait City and Detroit have more in common after all. And that’s a real shame, too.
i shall bring the gasoline, and shall give u the honor of lighting that savory, apocalyptic match.
I’m with Green Eggs & Balaleet. The “just because” and the “female student” – not to mention the fact that eight men planned a house raid – sound to me like hints of something more.
In Beirut all things are allowed, including triple parking 🙂
Morning, Nicole!
Amu – they got pretty worked up!
GE&B – Don’t you wonder what the rest of the story is?
Lofter – Yeh, the it gets a little wild.
Mrm – I’m not there yet
Little Diamond – I would love to hear the rest of that story!
I hope they spend years in prison.
People are saying it is more than just a quibble over parking. It probably has to do with the girl.
Whatever the reason though, we are not living in a jungle.
There are proper ways to file a case and complaints. It is just not right to barge into people’s houses like that and beat them up.
And your hubby is wonderfully diplomatic 🙂
Violence is going up in this country, that is never a good sign.
Yousef – Imagine, breaking in with knives and machetes. That’s pretty scary.
Jewaira – I would love to see one of your wonderful stories come out of that – I bet it could go 10 – 11 chapters!
(Why isn’t your name linked to your blog? JEWAIRA)
N. – Maybe the violence has always been there, but people are calling the police more, and the press is more free to report it now. People say the same thing in the US and in Europe, but I think we have always had violence with (and within) us; I think it is more exposed now. And I am thinking that is a good thing. When things of darkness hit the light, they lose their power, don’t they? They can be stopped, if we are faced with them.
I’m impressed. As I always teach my class, “It’s easier to catch flies with honey, than with vinegar!”
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Madame Monet! I am happy to see you again.
Sometimes we even surprise ourselves. Our first reaction was anger, until we understood how frustrated HE felt.