In Kuwait... "outside coverage area"… means drunk

A Kuwaiti newspaper has come out with a new expression to describe a drunk man —‘outside the coverage area’ —terminology often used by mobile phone operators.

The Arabic language daily ‘Al Watan’ made the description in a brief report about a 42-year-old local man who was caught by police driving his car while drunk.

A police patrol stopped the man, a bedoun (without identity), after noticing that the vehicle was moving in a zigzag way on the Gulf emirate’s seaside road.

“When police men came close to him, they could smell alcohol. It turned out that the man was ‘outside the coverage area’,” it said.

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