porcy62 Posted December 29, 2004 Report Posted December 29, 2004 (edited) In case you wish to visit Dubai Dubai fines drunken Italian for taxi kiss. DUBAI (AFP) - A tipsy Italian visitor to the relatively liberal Gulf emirate of Dubai has reportedly been fined nearly 3,300 dollars for hugging and kissing a woman in public. According to the Gulf News daily, a court in the Muslim emirate heard a policeman say he saw the couple hugging and kissing in a taxi near the international airport, Gulf News said. He took the unidentified man and his Egyptian acquaintance to a police station for questioning. The two "confessed to hugging and kissing inside the taxi," and the Italian also admitted to being drunk. He was fined 12,000 dirhams (3,270 dollars) after being "charged with drinking alcohol and lewd behavior in public" and his companion had to pay 545 dollars for "lewd behavior in public," the newspaper said. Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emirates federation, currently boasts five million visitors a year -- many of them Westerners -- for its population of 1.2 million. It is targeting 10 million by 2007 and 40 million by 2015. The affluent emirate is in the midst of a drive to establish itself as the Gulf's business and leisure hub. Edited December 29, 2004 by porcy62 Quote
alankin Posted December 29, 2004 Report Posted December 29, 2004 Sounds like the Gulf's party place. Quote
Dan Gould Posted December 29, 2004 Report Posted December 29, 2004 Actually, the proof that the Emirates is relatively liberal is the fines that each of the miscreants paid. In the rest of the Arab world, the man would have been fined $545. The woman would have been stoned. Quote
porcy62 Posted December 29, 2004 Author Report Posted December 29, 2004 Actually, the proof that the Emirates is relatively liberal is the fines that each of the miscreants paid. In the rest of the Arab world, the man would have been fined $545. The woman would have been stoned. Only if she is an adulteress. Quote
catesta Posted December 29, 2004 Report Posted December 29, 2004 A tipsy Italian visitor Typical. If they ain't nappin', they be drunk and kissing people. B-) Quote
porcy62 Posted December 29, 2004 Author Report Posted December 29, 2004 A tipsy Italian visitor Typical. If they ain't nappin', they be drunk and kissing people. B-) But always dressed with style! Quote
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