Comments on: Flipping the Bird can cost you!

By: Global Voices Online » Bahrain: Indecent Hand Gesture

Global Voices Online » Bahrain: Indecent Hand Gesture — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:23:02 +0000

[...] Mahmood Al Yousif draws our attention to what a hand gesture could cost you in Bahrain. Share [...]

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By: howard_coward

howard_coward — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:24:30 +0000

No intent to insult or defame, but I think one flips the bird AT, not TO. So the “motorist who claims to have the bird flipped to him…” should have claimed that the bird was flipped at him. It is of course possible to flip a bird TO, depending on the size of the bird.

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By: Finlandi

Finlandi — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:51:54 +0000

me and my friends were arrested for just that about 2 years ago.

i guy driving a security car almost hit us because of reckless driving and we shouted at him.. so he stopped the car right in front of ours, and called the cops.. this was on the high way near Bapco by the way, so you can imagine the traffic jams caused by him.. we spent 4 hours trying to sort it out.. at the end we just left and to this day we have no idea what happened to that case

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By: victoria

victoria — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:03:48 +0000

Flipping the bird is showing your middle finger to someone in an insulting manner , like the baby in the photo Mahmood kindly provided. Though hopefully the baby was unaware of this otherwise could be sitting in his playpen surrounded by wooden bars for time out !!

To be honest I wonder why Bahraini officials allow such meaningless legislation .. The cost to impose such a law and potential for injustices to occur like the one Mahmood mentioned should negate its usefulness… We need to accept that in a free society some people are going to behave in ways that will annoy us but that is no reason to cart them off to prison for being uncouth…

We have to stop being so over-sensitive and insecure.

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By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:34:32 +0000

can some one explane wht fliping the bird is
I dont understand I am from the U.K.

Thanks

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By: Abu Arron

Abu Arron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:40:18 +0000

Yes Ammaro, you can seriously screw up someone’s day by making such an accusation. A friend was threatened with 3 months jail in Dubai for flipping the bird.

Another good way to screw up someone’s day/week is to advertise a 2 year old Yaris for 1000BHD in the GDN and supply your victims mobile number. No, don’t do it, that’s just plain mean.

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By: yousifcom

yousifcom — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:10:11 +0000

Hehehehe.. This reminds me with a story of a cousin of mine few years a go. While driving on King Faisal Highway, he got close to another car. When the other driver shouted, my cousin gave him the finger. The funny part is that the other driver just happen to be a BIG guy at the traffic directorate. He was called in the next morning. His car were kept at the traffic directorate for three days …. He will never do it again.

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By: Aliandra

Aliandra — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:30:53 +0000

This is actually a crime in Bahrain?

It’s happened so often in New York City that it’s lost its shock value.

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By: ammaro

ammaro — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:17:15 +0000

actually, im remembering new york now… drivers swear there at each other all the frickin time…

so one day me and some buddies were driving down there, when this $@!^&#@ cut us off really badly, so my friend leans halfway out the window and gives him the longest, most extreme, disrespectful insult ever (ie, you sonofab#%^@ bast@$S muthe$#@%^^@$ pile of cr@# useless etc etc etc). the guy he was swearing at turned back and gave him a thumbs up for coming up with such a great insult. lovely city, that.

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By: ammaro

ammaro — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:14:06 +0000

wow, is it really that big a deal? sad. you can easily screw up anyones day by claiming they flipped you the bird and then have them investigated all day. you can walk off laughing, knowing that you screwed up their day. hmmm…

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