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Love how much OP is shilling for UAE. I doubt OP would be so okay with the jail sentence if it were them who had to serve it.
I mean, insulting staff is disgusting behaviour, but 3 months of prison is absolutely insane. These countries are still hellholes stuck in the past, and I'll make sure never to visit them.
He could have just paid the £2,150 fine, but instead he chose to appeal...
Engaging in legal action in a foreign country isn't exactly the brightest idea. Pay the fine and get out.
Like, 3 months is an insane sentence, but it sounds like he just leaned in at every opportunity.
Ah, yes, the victim blaming.
There is no world in which male Karen is the victim.
The victim here is the abused worker, not the entitled tourist.
Okay bud, tell me more about how the hurt feefees justify jailtime in a shithole country.
If the UAE is a shithole then what is the UK? They have a similar law in place with a stiffer sentence if found guilty - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/section/4
This is more leopards ate my face territory. Go for a little trip to the place that's kind of known for human rights abuses and a touch of disdain for western cultural values, and proceed to engage in activities that cause you to have to deal with their legal system. Twice.
In the UK it could be up to 6 months jail. He got off light.
Why do people still visit Dubai? There's all kinds of harmless or relatively minor stuff that can get you thrown in prison there. I wouldn't even change planes in that theocratic shithole.
I was told that they have cheap stuff in duty-free and the flights are cheaper than with some other transits.
But I agree with the sentiment, it's probably not the best thing to support them by visiting and leaving your money with them
I'm not crazy about a lot of these places but I do so hate assholes who treat the waitstaff like their own personal lot in life. Fuck this guy if these ~~alligators~~ allegations are true 🐊
Edit: every time I hear the word allegations, my mind immediately turnd to
Edit: even sadder, i first spelled it like allegators --> what Lawyers should have been called. Allegators, like allocutors
I’m not a big fan of the UAE, but I do like the idea of criminalizing the abuse of service workers. The American “kiss their ass faster and more thoroughly” style isn’t fair to employees, and only rewards bad behavior.
That's easily solvable by refusing service to someone who uses abusive language.
The only instance where words should get you jail time is if it's a specific and targeted threat against someone, just being a douche is far too grey of an area to put people in prison for.
True. Jail time would often be overkill, but people need to understand that it’s not acceptable to threaten to take away someone’s livelihood (and often their health insurance) just because the employee is following company policy. That can be a much more serious threat than customers realize.
In order to refuse service, employees have to feel comfortable doing so. That means being certain that there will be no negative repercussions from management, and that management will back their decision 100%. Service workers shouldn’t have to choose between keeping their dignity or paying their rent.
What sucks is you know the rich fuckers in Dubai are doing every drug underneath the sun.
The rich fuckers abuse their slaves daily too.
A disgraceful incident but a completely different case.
Fuck Sharia law, fuck draconian abrahamic religions, fuck their way of life and their culture.
These asshats are going to drag us into the dark ages because of their make believe gods.
Embrace science over religion. Socialism over cronyism.
Fuck Dubai.
Badly-behaved person meets a black sheep country.
Man travels outside of UK and expects to be treated as if at home!!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A UK citizen has been sentenced to three months in jail in Dubai after “insulting” airport staff who were slow to bring his mother a wheelchair.
The unnamed man was originally issued a Dh 10,000 (£2,150) fine, but his appeal against this failed and his punishment was extended to a jail term on 6 November.
The Court of Appeal heard that the man began to insult staff at Dubai International Airport after they told him that they couldn’t immediately bring his mother a wheelchair, reports the Daily Mail.
“I saw the traveller repeatedly asking an airport desk employee about the wheelchair and expected that he might have not understood her explanation,” she said, reports The National.
In October, an American student briefly faced a year in prison after being accused of assaulting staff during an altercation.
In 2017, a British tourist was also sentenced to a brief jail term after making “rude gestures” and touching a man’s hip in a bar.
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It makes sense that a penalty is set proportional to the harm caused, so the 3 months sentence might make sense if the victim was genuinelly psychologically affected by it in a way that lasted a significant period, but for merelly feeling insulted 3 months seems the kind of "Justice not at all trying to be Just" you get when authoritarian moralism is encoded in Law, not at all what law-making should strive for in a country aiming for Rule Of Law were sentencing is guided by harm caused rather than the iron-fist enforcing of moral behaviours.
Of course, this being the UAE, I'm not at all surprised that the Law is not at all about doing what is Just, since unlike in Democracies that country doesn't even attempt to have real Rule Of Law.
play stupid games win stupid prizes.