9 Places Where You Might Get Robbed In Lebanon

Lebanon may be a country where you can (theoretically) swim and ski within the same hour, but it is also a country where you can get robbed in slightly unconventional ways. Here are 9 places where you just might get ripped off.

1. The bank

“We charge you SMS fees and processing fees and kebbe b laban fees and a ‘you’re ugly, so we don’t like you’ fee. And no, you can’t have your money.”

2. At your local gentrified cafe

Oh coffee is only 200,000 LL? Just a mere 100,000 LL on top for skimmed milk? Thank you so much, yes I’ll take two. Add a bottle of water to the mix and you’re looking at a cool million.

3. At that one hot, new experimental restaurant

500,000 LL for a vegan fattoush-steak burrito is a steal, right?

4. Nightclubs

Choosing to pay an extortionate amount of money just to get in? Then paying even more for a watered-down drink while you sweat my ass off on an overcrowded dance floor? Robbery.

5. At the police station

You go in there to report a stolen item and suddenly you’re paying the 5 overdue fines from 2004.

6. Fast-fashion instagram shops

Selling items for triple the price you bought them off of Shein is a criminal act that ought to be prosecuted.

7. Doctor’s office

On second thought, I’d rather have $50 and the disease instead of a note with terrible handwriting and the disease.

8. Visa applications

Enough said.

9. White tourist traps

If you see a flock of white people anywhere, brace yourself because you’re about to get royally robbed.