Bloggers in the UAE are outraged after a video was posted on YouTube showing young men driving in a reckless manner in broad daylight on one of Dubai's busiest streets. In the video, which has since been “removed (from YouTube) due to terms of use violation,” a ‘gang’ of young men are seen cheering on reckless drivers, meandering though rush hour traffic at full speed, doing ‘doughnuts’ and wheelies. One 4×4 is seen being driven on two wheels for a stretch of the road, being cut off by a pick up truck spinning like a top on the highway. A new video surfaced, with the same clip, and can be found here. Readers wrote in angry letters to The National, a UAE daily, which broke the story. One reader, Rashid alfalasi, from Abu Dhabi, blames the lack of an arena for those young men to show off their stunts for the incident: I think if those kids were allowed to do their stunts in special places like what it is done in Qatar. They won't do these stunts in main roads and put others lives in danger. In Qatar they have a special circuit where young drivers can go and do their stunts with safety measurements with police and ambulance presence and they are opened every weekend and on special events like eid holidays and soccer team winning a title etc. Tim Craig, another reader from Abu Dhabi, posts: These are the future leaders of the UAE. So, What direction are the Emirates headed for ? If you value your life, DONT DRIVE to DUBAI. It is worse than you can imgine and the locals are having fun laughing at the danger and fear that they inflict on innocent good people. Moving on to blogs, Grace, who blogs at Sandier Pastures, adds her two cents: I’ve written my dislike for driving in Dubai roads before, in dealing with mental drivers who sadly are aplenty. Now the news today took this dislike to a whole new level. A video had been posted in YouTube showing young drivers performing road stunts on Dubai’s main SEVEN LANE highway, Sheikh Zayed Road. A pick up truck intentionally spins and skids across the road while a 4×4 zigzags across six lanes of traffic (cars running at 100kmh) balanced on ONLY TWO WHEELS. This isn’t a show. She continues: The images are shocking to say the least and without an arrest as of this writing everyone knows the nationality of these reckless drivers. Where are they now? Somewhere in Dubai waiting to kill people! See the whole .. maddening story via The National. Driver of those two vehicles: you stupid, incredibly selfish, bored, spoiled twat! Seabee, who blogs at Life in Dubai, describes the stunt as “life threatening lunacy.” He further adds: There's a new film on YouTube showing innocent motorists’ lives being endangered by a bunch of brainless morons. Seabee posts a number of stills from the video, including the one below, which shows a man dangling out of the window of his 4×4 and another 4×4 being driven on two wheels along the six-lane highway, in traffic! Dubai driving stunts outrage bloggers Like many bloggers, he wonders: Identifying the idiots in the clip should take the police about five minutes. Deliberately putting other people's lives at risk like this deserves a lifetime driving ban, a lifetime ban on owning a vehicle and a lengthy jail term. And I mean lengthy. The obvious question is whether they'll be arrested. Cynics will doubt it and will talk about wasta (influence)… Dubai Police were soon on the case, and news reports say that two drivers have been arrested and charged with endangering the lives of others. The National reports that the two Emiratis in their early 20s face up to three years in prison and fines if convicted. Reacting to the news, Seabee explains: It's a start, now we'll have to wait to see how justice is applied. As I said in the earlier posts, I think it deserves nothing less than a life ban on owning or driving vehicles plus a lengthy jail term for deliberately endangering life. But I don't for one moment think that's going to happen. And apart from the the drivers doing the stunts there was a convoy of hangers-on accompanying them, cheering them on and filming them. They need to be arrested too, charged with aiding and abetting the offences. What the eventual outcome will demonstrate is just how serious the authorities are about stamping down on dangerous, irresponsible driving and in promoting road safety. So far it seems to have been a half-hearted campaign without much success, a couple of weeks emphasis here and there on specific things such as tailgating, child seats or mobile phone use. I've seen no reduction in any of those offences, in fact with mobile phone use it seems to me to be on the increase.