Would You Want To Go On Holiday In Dubai After Reading This?

[sandyRoe]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/britons-tortured-dubai-police-083758901.html#J1G0xM8

[Ronnie10]

Of course i would why would i deprive myself from a great experience because of a few bad examples.

Look we can't blame other countries laws or lack of laws for the lawless when our usually drunk and violent countrymen go to other countries and commit crimes abroad and then are seen looking meek, humble and miserable as they're interviewed crying from prison lying that "it's a mistake", "it was someone else" or the other golden nugget of a gem used by drug smugglers "I was forced or threatened into it"

My advice to holidaying brits would be to avoid beheading, flogging, execution, heavy fines or lengthy prison sentences then read up on other countries laws, do and dont's, abide by them even if the natives bend the rules.

I've traveled the world to many of these places and have somehow magically avoided arrest or even a reprimand for throwing litter etc.. as i research my location first so that i avoid committing any crimes or upsetting local cultures.

[Dee Sa]

I lived there for 14 years met my husband there he was there for 22 years in the days when it was like living in the wild west, if you obeyed their rules and lived by their laws everything was fine and if you had an argument with a local they would say whilst pointing at their chest "this is my country" and you wiped your mouth and walked away, pity we cant do the same .

[jamesnan]

My daughter and husband have taken their 2 teenage children there twice, and they all love the place, had a great time.

[emmie]

i wouldn't go there ever, it's full of foreigners, and you know what they are like...

[emmie]

where does it say they committed a crime...

[DTCwordfan]

"Do in Rome what the Romans do", plain and simple. Anybody who enters an Islamic country with drugs aboard them is totally nuts.

I'm not saying that these guys did, but they must have raised suspicion......

[emmie]

so they are guilty as charged, amazing...

[Ronnie10]

"where does it say they committed a crime... here

"Grant Cameron and Karl Williams, both 25 and from London, and Suneet Jeerh, 25, from Essex, were arrested while on holiday on July 10 last year by police who claimed to have found a quantity of a synthetic cannabis known as "spice" in their car."

[DTCwordfan]

can't see where anyone has said that, em.....all I have said is that they must have raised suspicion - it could well have been that they were drinking outside....ok on a wadi bash but something you should be careful with if there are locals around. Again, that is purely suppositional.

[emmie]

there is that word claimed, now do you see the difference, not exactly bang to rights, showed the world the stash, had them up in court, not saying they are innocent however human rights seem to have rather passed them by.

[DTCwordfan]

Just like most of the Middle East - going out there you take a measured risk, and putting your head above the parapet is asking for it.

There's a story, possibly apocryphal, about a guy going to Dubai to be a treasurer to a company out there. End of the first week, hiss Arabic boss asked him what he thought about the place and how he was settling in. He extolled one or two positives like the quality of his accommodation but then made the comment "But the bloody noise from the minarets at dawn."

He was out of the country that evening, expelled.

[emmie]

but that is the problem, you could be totally innocent, but for some unknown reason you are hauled before a court, and accused of all sorts, democratic it ain't.

[DTCwordfan]

that's always the risk.

[Ronnie10]

"but that is the problem, you could be totally innocent, but for some unknown reason you are hauled before a court, and accused of all sorts, democratic it ain't"

I've never heard of anyone out there being fitted up, it's usually people caught with drugs, or causing offense by showing public displays of affection and the guilty parties always admit their guilt once back on home soil to the media here from what i've seen.

[askyourgran]

Don't fancy going there, they are like childish monkeys, they love the shiny things but haven't the mentality to behave decently. I was on edge all the time in Bangkok glad to get away from there and I imagine that Dubai is much the same.

[DaisyNonna]

Never really fancied it. What are the attractions? Don't know much about it.

[DTCwordfan]

bit different re humidity and traffic on the road, ayg. You don't see too many thieves with one wrist walking around in Dubai.....or western yobbos for that matter.

[boxtops]

Yes, I would, I have friends who live there.

[DTCwordfan]

business and commercial, daisy,

safety, good location for travelling and vacationing around the Indian Ocean, down to East Africa and even in places like the Oman.

sunnite, so westerners can drink but not in open air.

golf courses, cinemas, reasonable shops and supermarkets, gold markets, beaches, wadi-bashing,