| They’re going to have to invent a motorcycle burkini for the Saudi biker babes — those black, flowing abayas they’re required to wear in public will quickly get caught in the wheels, killing the poor dears in their first minutes of independence. |
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
n women will be able to drive trucks and cycle of violences, officials have said three months after the kingdom announced a historic decision to end a ban on women driving.
In September, Good King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
issued a decree saying women will be able to drive from next June as part of an ambitious reform push in the conservative kingdom.
The Saudi General Directorate of Traffic gave details of the new regulations that will follow the lifting of the ban on the official Saudi Press Agency late on Friday.
"Yes, we will authorise women to drive cycle of violences" as well as trucks, it said, adding that the royal decree stipulates that the law on driving will be "equal" for both men and women.
There will be no special licence plate numbers for female-driven cars, it said. But women involved in road accidents or who commit traffic violations will be dealt with at special centres that will be established and run by women.