by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 23, 2012 | Lebanese Abroard
The Lebanese Immigrant Statue (apparently there are 12 around the world) has been defaced in a park in Australia: A $60,000 Preston statue celebrating Lebanese immigration has been defaced with racist and sexually gratuitous graffiti. The statue, unveiled at Preston’s...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 9, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Blackwood, Wales The residents of Cefn Fforest (it’ not a typo – it has two F’s) are up in arms with a youth mob terrorizing the community: MORE than 100 youths are plaguing residents lives by making “petrol bombs” setting fire to bins and...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 28, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
Destruction and carnage? According to Russel Pritchard, it’s got to be how Beirut looks like: YOUNG footballers are devastated after [the Carnforth Rangers FC] clubhouse was vandalised and left looking “like a scene from Beirut”. […] The mindless louts wrecked...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 2, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
It seems that vandalized property is now synonymous with Beirut according to Darrell Alper, owner of Pearl used car dealership in Reading Road, Wokingham, Berkshire in the UK: A garage owner is fuming after vandals lobbed bricks from a derelict dairy depot onto his...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 10, 2010 | Looks Like Beirut
John Woods, journalist of the Irvine Herald, has this to say about a vandalized, abandoned house: Vandals have left an empty house in Irvine’s sprawling Castlepark estate looking like something out of war-torn Beirut. So according to John, this house was mysteriously...