Arab countries, mainly Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait have a unique culture and sensibilities different from the rest of the world.
Sometimes, this leads to incidents that might be regarded as strange in other parts of the world.
From innovative ways of smuggling alcohol into KSA to unusual reasons for divorce and wild animals roaming on highways - you will have them all here...
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Woman divorces Saudi husband for not being religious enough
A Saudi woman recently filed for divorce five days into her marriage saying her husband was not religious enough.
She claimed she filed for divorce because her husband did not pray five times every day.
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Click next to read how hidden camera caught a maid pouring her urine in drink for her employer.
Hidden camera catches maid pouring her urine in employer’s drink
A maid was caught on camera mixing her urine in a glass of juice to be served to the head of the family where she was employed.
The incident reportedly happened in a town in Saudi Arabia.
The family reportedly became suspicious of persistent foul smell in their drinks and installed a hidden camera in the kitchen.
The camera captured two women going about their daily chores while one of them prepared a drink.
A Kuwaiti TV channel aired the footage where one of the maids was seen stirring it and then heading away before the second maid walks over to the juice and quickly pulls a beaker from her trousers what purportedly contained her own urine.
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Click next to read what this tiger was doing in a busy road in Qatar.
An Arab national was caught on camera holding his pet tiger by a chain tied to its neck on a busy Doha road in Qatar.
The tiger was let loose by the owner it was seen wandering on a packed motorway in Rayan area of Doha.
A video footage was widely shared on Twitter, in which the wild animal walked along a packed motorway in Rayan area.
One of a series of the photographs shows an Arab national in white thobe and cap holding the tiger’s chain, seemingly having captured it.
Tigers have not been native in the Middle East since the Caspian tiger extinct in the 1970s.
The trade in endangered wildlife remains a problem in the Gulf, where owning expensive exotic pets, especially big cats, is the ultimate status symbol.
Under Qatari laws, a man could face a maximum of six months in prison and a fine ranging from QR1,000 to QR10,000 for petting a wild animal at home or in residential areas.
But all this happened despite the ban.
Strange, isn’t it?
This is how this man tried to smuggle alcohol
Saudi customs officers on King Fahad Causeway arrested a man for trying to smuggle liquor under his traditional garment (thobe) from Bahrain into Saudi Arabia.
They frisked him and confiscated 14 bottles of alcohol which were taped to his legs and waist.
“The officer first cleared the man along with his car but chased him and frisked him to find bottles of alcohol hidden under his traditional garment,” said King Fahad Causeway Authority director general Fahd Dhaifalla Al-Otaibi.
Saudi Arabia does not allow sale or consumption of alcohol in Saudi territory.
Click next to read how a 'too hot to handle' man was expelled from an Arab country
Man too smart to handle
Saudi Arabia’s Religious Police expelled an Emirati from their country as he was apparently 'too handsome'.
He was too good looking and has become a famous person worldwide after his expulsion hit headlines in global newspapers, triggering a feminine deluge on his social website.
Omar Borkan Al Gala, an actor and poet from Dubai, has not confirmed outright he was deported but hinted that he was one of three Emirati men who were reportedly forced out of an annual cultural festival in the conservative Gulf Kingdom and then deported by the influential Religious Police—the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.
Click next to read how a vigilant customs official discovered that the seemingly innocent cans of Pepsi actually contained beer.
When Heineken was disguised as Pepsi
In a desperate bid to smuggle alcohol into Saudi Arabia, a smuggler disguised 48,000 cans of beer as Pepsi.
The cans, which were part of a consignment labelled 'soft drinks', arrived at the Al Batha border crossing via truck.
Photos on social media showed worker inspecting one of the cans before slicing its plastic wrapper with a knife.
A man then takes out what appears to be a can of Pepsi, with a blue wrapper and a red and white logo.
But he quickly realises something is wrong and, with a little difficulty, cuts off the wrapper to reveal a can of Heineken.
Not smart enough to outsmart Customs Officials
In this incident, Saudi customs officers arrested a man for carrying 12 bottles of alcohol hidden under his thobe (traditional garment).
He was returning from Bahrain to the kingdom via King Fahad Causeway.
The custom officials became suspicious as he was walking oddly and decided to search him.
Upon searching, police discovered the man had modified his trousers and underwear to add pockets that could carry 12 bottles of liquor.
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Next: Excess of anything is bad, right?
When too much make-up became reason for break-up
Make-up can do wonders, and while it can make you look very different on special occasion, it can lead to many problems otherwise.
This is the harsh truth a newlywed bride is faced after her wedding.
The groom accused his wife of fraud saying she did not look as pretty in the morning after the wedding as she did on the day they got married.
He could not recognise her after she removed her make-up after the wedding.
In fact, the groom actually mistook her for a thief.
The man sought divorce from his wife saying he felt cheated as she had covered her face with too much make up on his wedding day.
The incident happened in Algeria, in the North Africa region which is closed to the Middle East.
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Next: When the father got married instead of the son.
A father remains a father, no matter what!
In what can be termed as a bizarre marriage event, a father who went to see his son getting married to a woman ended up getting married himself.
The incident occurred in Jazan province of Saudi Arabia where a father accompanied his son to his would-be bride’s home for his planned marriage.
The would-be in-laws refused to get their younger daughter married to his son on the ground that they wanted their elder daughter to marry first.
This angered his son who stormed out of the house.
However, the father stayed there and proposed to marry their elder daughter and they agreed.
The father married the elder daughter and brought her home later to give a surprise to his son.
Risking life for drugs?
Customs officials arrested an Asian man at Ras Al-Khaimah Airport as he was trying to smuggle heroin worth AED500,000 in his abdomen.
The man fell sick and was taken to a hospital where 128 capsules weighing 1.036 kilogrammes of heroin were detected in his stomach.
The anti-narcotics squads detained the man on his arrival at the airport.
During interrogation, he confessed to attempting to smuggle heroin into the United Arab Emirates.
He told police that two traffickers from his country hired him to smuggle heroin into UAE in exchange for a sum of money per capsule.
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