Thanks expatguy for warning us of this as who would have thought that making a rude gesture to someone is considered worse than someone who is trying to kill you on the road and who hunts you down and assaults you!

Road rage is a problem in a lot of countries - but then most countries have road rules that actually make sense and are there to prevent people from deliberately killing others by selfish and dangerous driving - and the rude gesture would be no excuse for assault. The rule explained by treysdad makes no sense to me and is a recipe for complete disaster as we see every day at intersections in Doha.

This is a sad reflection of the society we live in here. Even more sad is that standing up for yourself and other people has a huge price tag (and not just in financial terms) as this is clearly a society where you cannot rely on justice being done (especially when expats and Qataris are involved).

Expatguy did the right thing to highlight the experience here so we can all be aware and keep our fingers in check while on the road! Anything more would risk his liberty (which, quite frankly, is unbelievable).