Saudi Arabia’s Youth Races To Death.

stunt with a car saudi arabiaIf you’re not satiated at the end of this post, go on youtube and type in “Saudi Arabia Drift mix”. What you’ll see is the new Saudi Arabian craze: the Saudi Drifting.

Localy called “Tafheet” (تفحيط), this popular street sport involves trying to drift a car, passing other cars on the freeway at terrifying speed (some videos bellow shows up to 200 Km/h ‘120 mph). This modern version of an ancient practice of camel sliding in the desert is definitely not the safest practice ever, and surely shows a lot of boredom for generation of young bedouins massively underemployed.

I hardly recommand the New York Times article about it and/or this selection of videos:

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