- TAIF: What is it about young Saudi men and their love for joyriding? According to a report on Sunday in Shams Arabic daily, a shabab (young man) dropped his mother off at a clinic and was waiting for her near the entrance when a security guard told him he had to move his vehicle to the car park instead of idling near the entrance.
This led to an argument. The mother exited the clinic just in time to witness her son, angry at the security guard, put the pedal to the metal and began driving recklessly around the clinic's parking lot, startling visitors with his tire-squealing and engine-revving.
Security guards responded by locking the compound gate, to prevent the youth from driving off, and calling the police. Fortunately nobody was run over by the time the youth calmed down.
