Fed-up Lebanese protest against protests
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BEIRUT, JUN 30 -
If you can't beat them, join them.
Dozens of Lebanese, exasperated by rampant tyre-burning protests across the country, rolled out tyres and stopped traffic in the capital Beirut on Thursday.
Police armed with automatic rifles quickly deployed down the street, looking baffled at the small crowd raising the banner "We are tyred", and blocking traffic with colourfully decorated tyres. Angry motorists honked their horns.
Lebanon , politically fragile after a 1975-1990 civil war, has been plagued for weeks by almost daily demonstrations using burning tyres to cut off main highways in to protest everything from political disputes to electricity cuts.
Laughing as the group quickly dispersed, the police officer in charge said: "I won't give them a ticket. We're all sick of this problem. And their tyres are pretty."
Posted on: 2012-06-30 02:10
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