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Texas TikToker ‘Sassy Trucker’ trapped in Dubai, faces 2 years in prison for ‘screaming’ at car rental worker
NY Post ^

Posted on 07/24/2023 10:25:03 AM PDT by MNDude

Houston social media star, 29, claims the screaming stemmed from a verbal tussle between herself and the manager of a local car rental shop when she stopped in to pick up her personal belongings in April.

Allen’s credit cards, debit cards and cellphone had been impounded along with her rental car the day before the blowup, after she and her friend were involved in a minor traffic accident near the Arabian Gulf.

The manager allegedly demanded money in exchange for the possessions and reacted with hostility toward Allen.

“He followed me outside the office and I felt very intimidated. I told him to stop but instead, he called the police and opened a case against me, apparently for ‘screaming,'” Allen claims

I might be the first female truck driver to ever drive a semi truck in Dubai,” she said at the top of her video titled, “The Sassy Trucker Moved to Dubai?”

Allen gained her strong following for documenting her career as a female trucker, telling CNN in 2021 that she likes “to show that you can still be feminine in a male-dominated field.”

Her feminist initiative may have also landed her in trouble — Stirling believes authorities targeted her because she is black and a female..

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 07/24/2023 10:25:03 AM PDT by MNDude
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Better than a Turkish Jail!


2 posted on 07/24/2023 10:27:13 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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If only she was a trans basketball player…


3 posted on 07/24/2023 10:27:59 AM PDT by The Louiswu (PEDO JOE MUST GO!!!)
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Do stupid things in foreign countries and you may get free accommodations.

Dubai is one of the countries that I would never visit,

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18842015

London Daily Mail reported on the plight of Keith Brown.

Mr. Brown, a youth development in Britain is in prison in Dubai, because while changing planes there, custom officials found a spec of marijuana smaller than a grain of sugar, stuck to one of his shoes.

One man from Switzerland has been jailed because they found three poppy seeds on his clothing from a bread roll that he ate in Heathrow.


4 posted on 07/24/2023 10:29:38 AM PDT by algore (tv)
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Ghetto behavior has its’ consequences outside of areas controlled by ghetto politicians. Who knew?


5 posted on 07/24/2023 10:29:52 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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6 posted on 07/24/2023 10:31:15 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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Gosh. Is it possible that “attitude” isn’t the key that opens all the locks in other countries? Perhaps America is an exception where “attitude” just allows you to get away with absolutely anything. Because, here, we care about racism, and in other places, they don’t give a chit.


7 posted on 07/24/2023 10:31:25 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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You gotta respek da Queen you go at her!


8 posted on 07/24/2023 10:31:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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Sassy is how she finds herself in the predicament she’s in.

Having her britny griner other countries couldn’t care less about your black female entitlement mentality, and this is what happens when a black American female throws one of those infamous temper tantrums in the middle east, expecting it will get her her way like it does here.


9 posted on 07/24/2023 10:32:39 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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10 posted on 07/24/2023 10:32:52 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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I love that scene from “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”


11 posted on 07/24/2023 10:33:01 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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“You’re F_______!”


12 posted on 07/24/2023 10:33:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Throw away the the key


13 posted on 07/24/2023 10:33:44 AM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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But the nonprofit believes Allen was detained as part of a blackmail scheme run by the car rental agency — and that some local cops may be in on it. “It is extremely common for rental car agencies to open cases against customers as a means to extort them. The hope is that whomever they perceive to be a ‘wealthy foreigner’ will offer them cash in order to drop the case,” Stirling said in a statement."

I'm gonna take her side. She may have had a bucket of "Oh no you didn't!" attitude, or maybe she didn't, but it sounds like a typical shakedown the rich tourists scam.

14 posted on 07/24/2023 10:34:21 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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Maybe a little less sass, and some more class next time.


15 posted on 07/24/2023 10:35:09 AM PDT by Wayne07
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That’s exactly what happened


16 posted on 07/24/2023 10:37:31 AM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your Trump shared a post on soci it all begins to make sense)
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“The manager allegedly demanded money in exchange for the possessions and reacted with hostility toward Allen.
He followed me outside the office and I felt very intimidated. I told him to stop but instead, he called the police and opened a case against me, apparently for ‘screaming,’” Allen claims”

Yeah, I’m sure that’s exactly how it went. 😏👌


17 posted on 07/24/2023 10:37:34 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Her “But I’m a an internet influencer” argument ain’t gonna work over there.


18 posted on 07/24/2023 10:38:22 AM PDT by pfflier
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“Maybe a little less sass, and some more class next time.”

Quote of the day


19 posted on 07/24/2023 10:39:31 AM PDT by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your Trump shared a post on soci it all begins to make sense)
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Her thighness...


20 posted on 07/24/2023 10:39:40 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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