‘Lady Hunter’ Filipino nabbed in Riyadh

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—If you are a guest worker in Saudi Arabia, it’s probably not a great idea to get a tattoo on one of your visits back home that says “Lady Hunter ... KSA.”

According to a local daily, a Filipino worker in his 30s was arrested by the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice after a Saudi Electricity Company employee noticed this “tat” on the guy’s arm, tailed him back to his residence, then informed the religious police.

The man had gone to pay his electrical bill at a local SEC office. The SEC teller noticed the tattoo and interpreted the arm ink to be an advertisement to “the ladies” that the bearer of the tattoo was a real “ladies man,” interpreting the tattoo to be an open invitation to have an illicit affair — which is illegal in Saudi Arabia.

Things got worse for the guy when the commission discovered upon searching his house that he had various pictures of Filipina women that were working in an area hospital.

The man now faces deportation, where he will be forced to change his tattoo to say: “Lady Hunter ... Republic of the Philippines.” - Arab News INQUIRER.net, July 17, 2008