Sunday, February 7, 2010
Have you ever realized that drinking water is a criminal offence?
Me neither... 'till that one fateful moment in Al Jafaliya Metro Station.
Imagine the following: Poor old tourist enters metro station and drinks (without bad thoughts) a small zip of water from his precious little water-bottle (we are in the desert.. yes it IS supposed to be a scarce resource)
I was not aware that this would raise a diplomatic confrontation like the middle-east peace negotiations and a present police force like present on a German NPD-demonstration...
This being said: No matter I was asked by the security guy not to drink, so i apologize and put away the bottle... not 2 minutes later:
an angry and totally outraged little man in blue suite and way to short tie storms towards me... "You drink water. I see on camera". His escort was quite impressive as well: About 6 policemen in green overalls (yes WITH bats, and not the batman-ones!).
(AND BY THE WAY... HE DIDNT EVEN SAY "HELLO SIR, HOW ARE YOU SIR"... how rude...)
"You are troublemaker... you want cause trouble... your passport!"... At this stage I was quickly thinking through what would happen if I just pull on his little tie and give him a lil slap on the head... Oh yeah... The greens and the batters... Not good. So (being a trouble maker and all) I surrender my passport and after a whole load of BlaBla I get a 100AED fine (20€)... So I decide to take a cab and walk right out of the station...
One thought never left my mind...
What would have happened if I was actually eating a BigMac...?
Me neither... 'till that one fateful moment in Al Jafaliya Metro Station.
Imagine the following: Poor old tourist enters metro station and drinks (without bad thoughts) a small zip of water from his precious little water-bottle (we are in the desert.. yes it IS supposed to be a scarce resource)
I was not aware that this would raise a diplomatic confrontation like the middle-east peace negotiations and a present police force like present on a German NPD-demonstration...
This being said: No matter I was asked by the security guy not to drink, so i apologize and put away the bottle... not 2 minutes later:
an angry and totally outraged little man in blue suite and way to short tie storms towards me... "You drink water. I see on camera". His escort was quite impressive as well: About 6 policemen in green overalls (yes WITH bats, and not the batman-ones!).
(AND BY THE WAY... HE DIDNT EVEN SAY "HELLO SIR, HOW ARE YOU SIR"... how rude...)
"You are troublemaker... you want cause trouble... your passport!"... At this stage I was quickly thinking through what would happen if I just pull on his little tie and give him a lil slap on the head... Oh yeah... The greens and the batters... Not good. So (being a trouble maker and all) I surrender my passport and after a whole load of BlaBla I get a 100AED fine (20€)... So I decide to take a cab and walk right out of the station...
One thought never left my mind...
What would have happened if I was actually eating a BigMac...?
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