I was ROBBED, they cut my bike... mE 14
okay so to explain you quickly, i am in big trouble i think, i need to escape the beqaa valley because the guys i stayed with were... were thugs obviously and uh yeah they basically they cut the rack, the rack for the bags so it's very weak, i need to repair it as soon as possible i can't ride like that, so i think i'll probably try to take a taxi to beirut, because obviously... when they drove me around also they had a kalashnikov in the car so... obviously they're not kidding i think i was stupid too to stay with them but uh yeah they were asking me what route i will take, so i'm a bit worried that they wait for me somewhere on the way, with their guns, to rob me properly, because they just took a few hundred dollars, that's fine i don't care, but uh but they saw all the cash i have so they might come back for more, so i need to, i need to escape basically, as fast as possible yeah it was weird this morning also because during breakfast i think they did not tell to their mother what the... what they did uh
but she noticed it, because suddenly they were offering me a lot of food from restaurants and well, more expensive stuff so so she noticed it, and they started shouting basically, but it was a very very bad argument so i'm pretty sure... hello... so i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure she noticed what they did or what they were planning to do hello, so i just need to escape, i can't escape with the bike, sorry yeah hello but the thing is that i can't escape with the bike basically it's too dangerous, so i have to put the bike in a taxi and whatever the price i go to beirut basically, i have to escape the beqaa valley because someone might be waiting for me maybe it's wrong maybe they just took the money but uh their behavior was very weird this morning so i pretended i uh i pretended i did not notice anything about the money and then as soon as i could escape i escaped, now let's find a taxi, let's go to the center of baalbek, and let's find a taxi to beirut, maybe if it costs 100 dollars doesn't matter, i need to get out of this ___ so i asked the guy if they can fix my rack first, no problem okay, i asked if they can fix my rack, hopefully they can fix it, and i my plan now is... i talk to the camera, okay okay, there, good thank you, so i asked a guy if he can fix my rack, basically my plan is gonna be to hide the bike in the shop, so while it's being fixed uh the bike is hidden, so hopefully they don't see me, and hopefully they're looking for me when they expected me to turn right to go Beirut, i turned left so hopefully it will take some time for them to find out that i did not go where they thought i was going, and then uh i will ask the shop also to find me a taxi to Beirut, so hopefully i can stay hidden all the way they don't do aluminium, i'm lucky that the people are very helpful still here what an insane experience here in the beqaa valley there oh okay so basically that's what they did, if you see, they cut my uh, they cut my rack, but i was lucky that they were not, they were not smart enough to cut it somewhere else, and here, somehow the rack was still able to hold the bags, so i was lucky i could escape basically, because i found out that just when i was loading the bike, just before leaving there, and uh i found out, and then i was like... a big adrenaline shot, and uh and i understood that uh that was in... because if it's just like 300 or 400 dollars, that they robbed, it was no problem, but uh but uh if they... basically they tried to rob, to steal my bike also
oh i don't know why, but they try to destroy it so then as soon as i saw that i just thought, i need to escape as fast as possible okay i hope i can fix that soon and then uh and then uh get in a taxi to beirut, because obviously i cannot ride the beqaa valley, it's too dangerous for me now i can remove this eh yeah it will be strong okay so basically now i need to wait for the welding to be cold to strengthen it, but i told the guy i want to go to beirut by taxi, so i'm kind of hiding behind this car, there is the street just behind, well my bike is still visible anyway, but uh yeah i just told him i want to go by taxi and i think he's... he's there, i think he's waiting to try to see if he can see a taxi, but for me i'm just... just wait here and taxi yeah yeah so he's looking for a taxi for me, people are so kind here before leaving i checked, i saw like uh 300 dollars we're missing and probably 100 euros, 100 or 150 euros and 300 dollars, well it's annoying but uh that's the problem of Lebanon, you have to carry cash, otherwise uh, because you can't withdraw with a credit card, so well that's the risk of it, and i knew the risk i was taking, so anyway that's not a.... i mean it's annoying, but that's not a big deal, but the big problem for me was that they, obviously they cut the rack of my bike on purpose, to, to do something else, and that i don't want to find out what is the something else, maybe they just wanna get everything from me, by waiting for me on the street somewhere, i don't know, so in the end i just ran away, i did not even check if i forgot anything or not, but yeah, hopefully i can find a taxi before they find me, and hopefully i can get safely to beirut, well i think it's probably going to be the end of most of my riding in lebanon, once i reach beirut, i think i'll probably maybe visit with... maybe with public
transport, because my bike is too obvious now, and now they're... because if they are the hezbollah now it's too dangerous for me to ride in the hezbollah dominated areas, okay i think maybe i found someone, i will go talk to the guy and see for how much he drive me to beirut nice, okay so that's the bike uh stored in the thing and uh okay nothing is there, okay let's go, yalla and uh where are you from?... France my name is Yves so let's go to Beirut Beirut where... i don't know, later check phone, later i tell you, Beirut, when Beirut, okay after basically okay oh my god problem no no no no no no no no no no no tourist yeah i have a youtube no i am small, no small you want to go to france we go together you go to Syria? Syria no, Syria, no visa ah, you are Syrian hello hello hello hi i'm syrian i am syrian my name is Aymen my name is Ahmed i go there, okay bye okay guys, so i made it to beirut, so i should be safe here i think, because i don't think they... well they did not know, the guys there, they did not know that my bike was folding, so i don't think they knew i could get into a, into a taxi or anything, so i'm in beirut, oh my god i escaped baalbek, so during the way uh i recovered my spirit a little bit, oh my god, i got really scared at some point, when i saw, when i saw that they cut my um my rack to make that i uh, that i can't leave their place basically i got really really scared when i saw that, then i just packed and rushed away okay so hopefully the repair is good enough and um well i will repack everything go to look for a hotel, probably stay a few weeks here in beirut i am with my friend, souleyman huh okay okay so souleyman wanted to talk to the camera so that's it, he had his chance, he had his chance, and now let's uh, wow i have six kilometers to do across beirut, across beirut to reach a potential hotel, oh my god what a day, okay i go bye bye bye i'm still a little bit uh, my emotions are still a bit high, because of the threat i felt suddenly, i really felt in... i really felt in danger basically when i saw the...
i felt in immediate danger when i saw the... that they sabotaged my bike basically, and they cut my rack, so basically they wanted, i'm sure they won't well... i really assume they wanted to wait for me somewhere on the road, on a small road, to get more money out of me ah this mosque is amazing guys so now i am uh, it's okay i put my bike... everything is in a hotel, everything's safe uh
probably gonna stay uh here at least a week, well i paid for a week, because i have a lot of editing to do, i think i'm going to stay all the way to christmas and new year in beirut, because i need some rest i'm tired, and yeah the adventures near baalbek, with the two Hadis who... i don't know who, but someone ended up taking money in my bag, and cutting the rack of my bicycle so yeah i was uh, oh my god, now i feel a little bit more relaxed and now i feel safe finally, in beirut, away from uh from those guys, i don't know if they were i don't... maybe, i don't know, i think they were just thugs, just uh just small thugs, i don't think they were hezbollah, i don't know maybe, but because... i mean they seem, all the family seemed like really genuinely, um genuinely uh friendly, all the guys around around them seemed also genuinely friendly, so i really think the guys were friendly, the neighborhood was friendly, it's just the two, the two guys, the two hadi uh, i will put you the image of them anyway so i'm safe here in beirut, i don't know what to say to finish this uh, to finish this video, look at the cedar, the pride of lebanon, yeah i was not lucky yeah basically uh in the end i probably crossed the line in terms of safety, in terms of traveling, of doing things, accepting this invitation was probably uh beyond the... i went beyond the danger zone, and uh i'm very
happy i decided to just take a taxi and head to beirut and uh, so that they can't find me and then yeah i think it was the good decision, i had to... in general it's like that, when you get to a danger, when you put yourself in a dangerous situation, you get warnings, and you have, when you have a big warning you just have to run away, things happen... then you always have warnings, things don't happen just like that, so i had a big warning and i ran away, hopefully it will be enough to keep me safe here, anyway oh my god i really feel, sorry i really had... i was so scared basically, when i rode from the house of hadi to the main road, to the... until when i stopped, until when i was in the in the minibus actually, i was so scared all the time, because i thought because basically when i left well i did not film for obvious reasons, but when i left uh hadi, the guy, the a little bit bald guy, he told me uh asked me where i was going, which road i was taking, so when he... when he... he asked me that several times, so when
he asked me that, and i already knew some money was missing, so i knew they were not nice guys and he was asking me which road i was taking, then it was... basically that was the trigger to... that's what triggered the huge alarm for me, it was like, for me it was really meaning like um, like they were after me basically, they did not have enough with what they took in the... in the bags, but they wanting more, because at first also i told him i wanted to go by the small roads, because i think the small roads are nice to meet people, you see like they invite you for coffee, and it's, in the end it's very good for the video, and it's it's very nice, it's very nice meeting people like that but um so i think he was hoping i would tell him which way i was going, so that maybe they can catch me somewhere else, and the fact that was that... the fact that money was missing and he asked me which way i was going, and which way i was gonna take, and uh and of course when i went around with them in the car, um basically uh at some point the other hadi, the hadi with the long hairs pulled out a kalashnikov, an ak-47, and well i thought they were friendly at that time, so i mean, guns i don't i don't i don't know, i mean, they were not threatening me with the gun so, but then when you have... you match the informations, the guns the fact that money is missing, my rack is cut, and they ask me where i go, it was like huge danger for me, so well now i escaped, i think i'm fine, and uh yeah, i'm safe in beirut, in a good neighborhood and um yeah i will stay here, i will not ride much more in lebanon i think, probably i will maybe i will ride the way back from beirut to tripoli, maybe not, because uh my bicycle is so easy to identify, that um, maybe it's just to dangerous to ride it now, yeah anyway that's, that's what happened, that's what uh, you know when you bring all the informations together, that's why i felt extremely, i felt that um, i'm in a very bad situation this morning i don't think they were hezbollah, i don't know, maybe they were hezbollah, maybe just hadi with the long hairs was hezbollah, uh because the other hadi actually told me also that he went to... the other hadi went to jail also, well it does not make him a thief either but but money was missing, what can i do, it's not my fault if money was missing that will be it for this video guys, so see you, see you for the next adventures ciao
2022-02-20 16:01
