If you happen to be visiting Saudi Arabia, don't drift your rental car, you could lose your head.
A popular amateur sport in the kingdom, drivers push their cars into skids at high speeds through traffic while spectators gather on the side of the road to watch and cheer, sometimes with disastrous results. Scores and scores of videos of the practice, called “Hadwalah”, are available on Youtube. In the video below, a Honda Accord is seen speeding down a highway with guns blazing out of the windows. The driver later turns around and drifts next to a school bus full of children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGt0RnZcO88
Saudi police have been cracking down on the practice and are now charging offenders with negligent homicide.
One man, who calls himself “Mutannish”, Arabic for “he who ignores”, has been sentenced to beheading after killing two people while drifting his car.
Source: Reuters
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