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Summary Dozens of Lebanese, tired of tyre-burning protests, roll out painted tyres on Beirut road.
Police armed with automatic rifles quickly deployed down the street, looking baffled at the small crowd raising the banner We are tyred, and blocking traffic with colourfully decorated tyres.Angry motorists honked their horns.Lebanon, politically fragile after a 1975-1990 civil war, has been plagued for weeks by almost daily demonstrations using burning tyres to cut off main highways in to protest everything from political disputes to electricity cuts.Laughing as the group quickly dispersed, the police officer in charge said: I wont give them a ticket. Were all sick of this problem. And their tyres are pretty.
