This guy's shawarma sandwich was mistaken for a bomb

Lebanon's increased security measures have saved dozens of innocent lives in the past few months -- but this time they nearly gave a guy a mini-heart attack after his shawarma sandwich was mistaken for an explosive belt. 

23-year-old Lebanese student Kareem Salhab was going about his ordinary night, when he decided he was in the mood for shawarma. 

He passed by Barbar (the one place that could satisfy those shawarma cravings) and bought himself a few sandwiches before heading back towards his home in Sanayeh. 

Luck would have it that it was pouring rain, so to prevent his sandwiches from getting soggy, he carefully placed them underneath his hoodie. 

That's when it "suddenly dawned on me that the sandwiches tucked in my hoodie could easily be mistaken for a bomb belt in the dark," Salhab wrote in his Facebook post. 

"It's just a few 'sandwichet shawarma!'" he then answered. 

But, the soldier did not believe him, ordering Salhab to "slowly" unzip his jacket as others approached the scene. 

That's when the soldiers realized he was telling the truth. 

"Shu bek mkhabba lsandwichet ra3abet l dene ya zalame" one of the soldiers said. 

Salhab's love for shawarma is so strong that he was "willing to protect the sandwich in my jacket rather than my phone which was in my hand," Salhab told StepFeed.