"Sand swimming" in Dubai
A disturbing story yesterday of a man caught on the Saudi border:
ABU DHABI – One of the truck drivers stranded in Al Ghuwaifat on the UAE-Saudi border was on Friday admitted to Al Sila Hospital following hallucination. A physician at the hospital told Khaleej Times that a driver of Syrian origin was transferred by Abu Dhabi Police ambulance after .........he was found swimming on the sands........ “He had sand in his mouth and all over his body,” he said. “He was violent, he did not know anything, he was disoriented due to heat stroke. He also had fever and sore throat.”
Obviously not something you hear of on a regular basis, but no doubt if you are stuck in the middle of the desert in 50 degree heat, you'd start hallucinating. Obviously sandswimming is not going to take off as a sport - and we hope that the poor gentleman makes a full recovery.
Beware of the sun...
Stranded Driver Hallucinates
ABU DHABI – One of the truck drivers stranded in Al Ghuwaifat on the UAE-Saudi border was on Friday admitted to Al Sila Hospital following hallucination. A physician at the hospital told Khaleej Times that a driver of Syrian origin was transferred by Abu Dhabi Police ambulance after .........he was found swimming on the sands........ “He had sand in his mouth and all over his body,” he said. “He was violent, he did not know anything, he was disoriented due to heat stroke. He also had fever and sore throat.”
Obviously not something you hear of on a regular basis, but no doubt if you are stuck in the middle of the desert in 50 degree heat, you'd start hallucinating. Obviously sandswimming is not going to take off as a sport - and we hope that the poor gentleman makes a full recovery.
Beware of the sun...
Stranded Driver Hallucinates
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