RIYADH: A mother in a busy Riyadh mall went nuts when the security told her that her son might be too tall to enter the children’s play area, according to a report in yesterday’s Al- Eqtisadiah newspaper. As is known to happen in Saudi Arabia whenever somebody gets violent: the women removed a shoe and began assaulting the security staff with it. When the security guards began countering the assault, the woman panicked and ran away from the scene, leaving her son behind. Unfortunately, the newspaper report provided no “closure” to this story, such as how the son was reunited with his mother.
‘Ladies man’ gets tit for ‘tat’
HAFR ALBATEN: If you are a guest worker in Saudi Arabia, it’s probably not a great idea to get a tattoo on one of your visits back home that says “Lady Hunter ... KSA.” According to a local daily, a Filipino worker in his 30s was arrested by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice after a Saudi Electricity Company employee noticed this “tat” on the guy’s arm, tailed him back to his residence, then informed the religious police. The man had gone to pay his electrical bill at a local SEC office. The SEC teller noticed the tattoo and interpreted the arm ink to be an advertisement to “the ladies” that the bearer of the tattoo was a real “ladies man,” interpreting the tattoo to be an open invitation to have an illicit affair — which is illegal in Saudi Arabia. Things got worse for the guy when the commission discovered upon searching his house that he had various pictures of Filipina women that were working in an area hospital. The man now faces deportation, where he will be forced to change his tattoo to say: “Lady Hunter ... Republic of the Philippines.”
