Man gets 30 lashes for refusing to put out his cigarette on a plane

[LynneSin]

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/man-gets-30-lashes-for-smoking-on-plane-20090203-7w2y.html

Man gets 30 lashes for smoking on planeFebruary 3, 2009
A Sudanese man has been sentenced to 30 lashes for smoking on a domestic Saudi Arabian Airlines flight, local media reported on Monday.

The unnamed man had refused to put out his cigarette on the flight to the Red Sea port city of Jeddah from Qurayyat in northern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Gazette said.

He was arrested by police when the aircraft landed in Jeddah and sentenced to 30 lashes by a local court on Sunday.

The man apologised and said he was attending clinic to help him stop smoking, according to the report.

[Aristus]

1. Well, I guess he won't do that again...

"Put that out, asshole!" means: "Put that out, asshole!"

[TK421]

2. I predict this thread will go places

[JVS]

3. They gave him a chance to put it out.

[HopeHoops]

4. Just 30?

[madinmaryland]

6. He should have gotten a lot more than 30!!

:spank:

[no name no slogan]

5. Smoking on Saudi Planes: Serious Business

And you thought Singapore Air was bad.

[Shell Beau]

7. Wow! Those lashes are hard core. Couldn't they have just

physically taken the cig from him? So quick to give a lashing.

[Lyric]

10. This is a government that chops off the hands

of starving poor people if they dare to steal a loaf of bread.

I wouldn't count even an iota of compassion from them. I'd honestly rather die than ever visit that awful place. Ugh.

[skygazer]

8. We need laws like that around here

Fucking smokers!


*sits back. picks up popcorn. :popcorn: *

[LynneSin]

9. I think you need to supersize that popcorn - here, let me help!