Speed Limit In Lebanon?

BEIRUT: The Internal Security Forces (ISF) have asked everyone to observe the speed limit and announced that it had recently installed speed radars.

A statement from the ISF added that the radars will be activated and begin recording violations Monday.

According to the statement, those who are caught by the radars “will be notified at [their] place of residence in accordance with notification procedures.”

The radars are part of a national campaign to clamp down on road violations after a particularly grisly series of road fatalities last month and generally loose enforcement of traffic regulations.

The equipment has been installed in secret locations, with no checkpoints marking positions, and violating vehicles will be photographed and referred to regional authorities for notification.

Individuals will be able to check whether they have received a speeding ticket by visiting the website www.isf.gov.lb, beginning mid-November and entering their vehicle registration number.

The installation of the radar equipment was previously announced by Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud, who said in a news conference that the ministry had received $2.5 million to purchase the devices. However, he revealed that the ministry still required an additional $12 million to continue financing the project. – The Daily Star

The new measures were not warmly welcomed in the southern coastal city of Sidon, where a number of radars have already been activated.

In south Lebanon, six radars have been set up from Sidon’s southern entrance until Tyre’s northern entrance, in addition to several speed guns on the Marjayoun-Nabatieh road.

The speed limit on these roads ranges between 80 and 100 kilometers per hour, although some signs were vandalized to indicate 180 kilometers per hour.

Nonetheless, some drivers argue that authorities needed to focus on more important road violations.

“How about trucks overloaded with cargo that might fall at any time?” asked Maarouf al-Halabi. “Radars are important but some violations are more worth the effort.”

Salim al-Gharbi seemed skeptical about the new measures, saying, “Stopping violations in Lebanon is like heating cow milk. It boils for a while and then subsides.”

Some drivers said it might be difficult to catch violators. They explained that some vehicles were legally purchased but remained registered under the name of their first owner.

“Should the seller be held responsible for the buyer’s mistakes?” asked Daoud Nassar.

“And if the original owner was dead, would they follow him to his grave?” he added. – Mohammed Zaatari

That's from The Daily Star. And I'm reporting from the fucking asylum.

ضاف: "ان قيمة محضر ضبط مخالفة السرعة في قانون السير الحالي 50 الف ليرة، اما مشروع قانون السير الجديد فتبدأ قيمة هذه المخالفة بـ50 الف ليرة وصولا الى خمسة ملايين حتى الحبس، ومنع السائق من القيادة حتى ستة اشهر تبعاً لمخالفة السرعة الزائدة"

And then there's this:

The installation of the radar equipment was previously announced by Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud, who said in a news conference that the ministry had received $2.5 million to purchase the devices. However, he revealed that the ministry still required an additional $12 million to continue financing the project. – The Daily Star

I bet you have undoubtedly heard the phrase "ayre bi hal balad", now you have a reason why. Kes ekhta shou manyake, $14.5 million FUCKING DOLLARS!? I MEAN FUCK ME SIDEWAYS AND CALL ME TIPSY! WHAT THE FUCK!? WLOK AYRE BI 7AREEM HAL BALAD! First they had implemented a law about fucking "boxer-showing" and "ear-piercing" fines, and now this.

This is what we call FUBAR -Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition-. It's not that I hate speeding limits, it's because they've set up FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLAR cameras just to fuck us up and extort all the money they can get their fucking hands on. I mean FUCK, our wage is barely 100,000-1,000,000LL per month, and that's "normal" worker's wage and the fine's variable from 50,000LL (first few months) to 5,000,000 FUCKING LL! WHAT THE FUCK!? Oh oh oh, let's NOT forget the smoking laws... Oh no, let's not forget that... Next thing's going to be some taxes on the amount of frikken "oxygen" inhaled! I'm practically being forgiving and tolerant when I say "oxygen" because I assure you, that fucking fog over Beirut is NOT A FUCKING CLOAKING DEVICE!

Fucking shit is this? First of all, it's WAY FUCKING over what any of us "workers" get paid, hell my cousin get paid 1,000,000 exactly at Nestlé, I used to get paid 300,000LL, and a friend of mine gets paid 700,000LL. Now the question arises... Where the FUCK AM I GOING TO GET THEIR FUCKING FIVE MILLION FROM!? Sell my fucking kidneys!?

Now as the amount of extor-I mean "rightfully paid" money increases and the amount of broke families with no more source of income increases, the crime rate will drastically fall, no more will their be any beggars under the Dora (Dawra) bridge, nor will there be any deficit in the economy, and of course there won't be any more graduates and families leaving the country. I guess they planned it all out, who the fuck are we anyway? We're merely expendable "loyal" citizens of the almighty "Republic" of Lebanon, we'll eat shit one way or another.

Nonetheless, some drivers argue that authorities needed to focus on more important road violations.“How about trucks overloaded with cargo that might fall at any time?” asked Maarouf al-Halabi. “Radars are important but some violations are more worth the effort.”

Some drivers said it might be difficult to catch violators. They explained that some vehicles were legally purchased but remained registered under the name of their first owner.

“Should the seller be held responsible for the buyer’s mistakes?” asked Daoud Nassar.

“And if the original owner was dead, would they follow him to his grave?” he added. – Mohammed Zaatari

Read this. That's what the fuck the government should be doing. IMPROVE THE FUCKING ROADS, or wait, if that's too much of a burden then PLEASE GET YOUR FUCKING CARGO TRUCKS OFF OUR ROADS! I bet you've seen one of those trucks while you were out on the road, big yellow trucks with iron rods/boulders clinging from the sides with no restrains whatsoever to hold them in place. Of course, they can't stop that from happening, but they CAN spend 14 fucking million on radars. WLOK AYRE BI 7AMRINTKON! Min wein ejoule hole!? Instead of actually fixing shit, they break it beyond all belief. No wonder the country hasn't advance since its independence in the 40's, the army is still using fucking discontinued, outdated, and decommissioned fucking HUEYS! OH MY FUCKING LORD! They were even bragging about their HAWKER HUNTERS from the 50's! Which I remind you, during one of their flybys last year, one of them almost hit the school flag pole. No kidding. Nearly missed it by a few inches. THAT'S HOW MUCH IT SUCKS! Damn it, I bet if it flew a bit higher it would fucking implode.

I say it again, and again, instead of fixing the god damn roads they could have

• Taught the illiterate,
• Fed the poor,
• Reissued obligatory driving lessons,
• Bought a fucking ELECTRICITY GENERATOR,
• Built some FUCKING ROAD BRIDGES (have you seen/heard of how many people are being killed and decaptiated everyday whilst attempting to cross the freeway - if we can call it that, more likely an off-road track- ? I bet you have.)
• Or even releasing the IMEWE internet connection

But no, they wanted radars.

That's like giving me a hundred bucks for taking my mother to a hospital for treatment, (for example) yet you watch me as I waste it on fucking caviar!

Everyone that's mentioning this issue is saying "byistehalo! khaliyon yit3alamo swe2a!" (They deserve it, let them learn how to drive!), "hek badon kabse", or "yo2borne Zizo Baroud shu cute w mahdoum, yay!" (Yes, I literally heard that). Thing is, the "byistehalo" and "badon" (which means THEY (the others/Lebanese) parts actually excludes the sayer. As if the retard who said that isn't included in the Lebanese population, isn't the one speeding, isn't the one breaking the law, isn't being said the same thing about by another guy, and is a law-abiding Lebanese citizen. (Lolwut?) The Lebanese pester me with their pathetic nonsense, as if they're (themselves) the good and law abiding citizens while the others are the fucking cunts who are pissing on their parade. Please, don't tell me you haven't experienced this situation.

The speed limit on these roads ranges between 80 and 100 kilometers per hour, although some signs were vandalized to indicate 180 kilometers per hour.

80 to 100 kilometers on a freeway, kes ekhta shou 3al 7mar? How the hell do they expect me to get fom Tripoli to Beirut and back at 100 kilometers per hour on a 24/7 crowded street (yes). It took me EXACTLY an hour to get from Jounieh (near the Casino) to the highway. And that's "Ba7riyé". Now as for the 180 vandalized part, then fuck you people, instead of spraying on a fucking roadsign, grab a fucking stone and fucking throw it at one of those radars. This here answers the question of what would a Lebanese do with a nuclear bomb: he'll paint it. Yes, he won't even try defusing it, he'll just paint it and write "durrr 180 kilometers durrr".

The equipment has been installed in secret locations, with no checkpoints marking positions, and violating vehicles will be photographed and referred to regional authorities for notification.

Eh, "secret locations" my ass. Two big solar panels the size of a fucking windshield with a black orb camera on a 10 meter tall pole, no wonder the fucking army lost every SINGLE WAR!

I'll post pictures when I get some. From now on, I'll grab a camera wherever I go. The shit has finally hit the fucking fan and drowned us all.

i

Note: I used the word "fuck" 41 times or so.

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Edit: People are now using "radar detectors" of some sorts as apps for cellulars. But be warned:

قباني: من يحمل خلويا لكشف مكان الرادار سيغرم 3 ملايين ليرة