Thursday, January 05, 2012

Smuggling Tricks into Kuwait

This is SO messed up.  Nice headline from Arab Times.  People smuggling funny tricks into Kuwait....

Also... why wouldn't you spell out "millions" in a headline?  WHO is editing this stuff?  Dude!


Smuggled Antics Worth Mlns Of Dinars Seized By Customs
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 4: Director-General of General Administration of Customs Ibrahim Al-Ghanim has referred the file of antics said to have been smuggled from an unidentified Arab country into Kuwait to the Assistant Undersecretary for Criminal Security Affairs Major-General Sheikh Ahmad Al-Khalifa, re...

4 comments:

expataussiegal said...

Not to mention "antiques"...gotta love those "antics"..

American Girl said...

I read this too and was SO confused! What the heck are antics?! I thought it was drugs, alcohol, sexual toys... but they really mean like 'tricks'? I'm STILL confused -- which is often how I feel after reading the Arab Times. Little bit of information, poor editing, and no follow-up.

Anonymous said...

Even with the Arabian English you have to be pretty dumb not to be able to figure out that the article was about millions of $$ of antiques smuggled in from abroad -- most likley Libya.

Desert Girl said...

I think we got the point that it was antiques, but ridiculous to have that level of "quality" in a leading daily "English" paper.