I’ll start off with a simple logical description of the issue on hand: On a single-lane road, two cars can pass faster when they are moving one after another. But when next to each other, one car has to slow down in order to let the other pass. In other words, lamma ykoun 3adad l siyarat yalle meshyin 7ad ba3d aktar mn 3adad l lanes, hol l siyarat bya3mlo 3aj2a la2an ma bise3o yo2ta3o 7ad ba3d w bisiro majbourin ykhaffefo ta ymar2o ba3d.
This effect, scaled up, creates irrelevant, unneeded, ugly traffic.
Supposing that what I am talking about can be grasped by small minded Lebanese drivers (which I doubt) who think they are always in a state of rush that allows them to just create lanes of their own, driving the wrong way or even where there is no ‘way’, I have come to a decision that I would like to share.
Paint balls!
Since I am daily witnessing the phenomena of “I am in a rush, I drive my car where I please” and “matra7 ma bshouf zefet bemshe. w aslan ma droure ykoun fi zefet” I have decided to purchase a stock of paint balls and a paint ball gun. Why? you may ask. I shall salute each driver driving the wrong way with a colorful paint ball to cheer up his day w ta fesh khel2e as well. So in case you come across some news report in the near future speaking of a trend of colorful cars on the Lebanese roads, you can safely assume that I had some part in setting that trend.
And oh, since its Christmas time, I will start with a stock of green and red paint balls 🙂
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I empesise with you and would like to commend you on a great idea, as long as it is in theory.
I do not recommend that you pull any gun, paint gun, water gun, pellet gun and shoot at any idiot driver. First you should worry that they would shoot back with real guns, second even though the law is not protecting your rights as a driver they could charge you with aggravated assault.
So wishful thinking but I have had some of my own. My wish is also to shoot them but with a video camera instead (like a dash cam) and start a sight were thease films can be up and down loaded and shared. I believe the only way to get them to think about what idiots they are is to see for themselves how many hits there idiotic behavior has induced.
I will not be starting any sight it was only a wish so fell free to make my wish come true. It would be more legal and less dangerous.
Good Luck,
Fouad
I agree with Fouad, pulling a paintball gun could get you shot, or arrested via wasta.