The Philippine media and blogosphere are full of stories of hapless citizens being victimized by crooked taxi drivers and I don’t mean those that refuse to carry passengers or whose taxi meters run too fast. I am referring to cabbies that mug you, take away your money, or do worse. Here is a typical modus [...]
No, it’s not what you think it is:
“Four suspected thieves of fighting cocks were found dead by a concerned citizen near a sugarcane plantation in Barangay (Village) Anus, [San Jose, Batangas] early Sunday morning, police said.”
The Philippine Daily Inquirer report indicates that the four men were in all likelihood salvaged, or summarily executed.
This meaning of [...]
Philippine police were recently successful in apprehending several thieves who specialize, used to anyway, in preying on automated teller machines (ATM) in Metro Manila. The M.O.:
“Meisic police station chief Superintendent Nelson Yabut coordinated with the BPI-Lavezares bank officials, who allowed the police to open up the ATM. The police found five P500 bills and two [...]
A murderous week: At the heels of last Friday’s deadly bank robbery in Cabuyao, Laguna came another report of a massacre in the neighboring city of Calamba last Saturday, killing eight, that investigators say was motivated by revenge. These two incidents, plus another high-profile robbery-slay case where a lawyer-businessman and two responding off-duty policemen were [...]
I went to the gas station last week to fill up my car with gas and after taking note of the price I paid per liter, this is what I found out: Philippine fuel prices went up by about PHP 5.50 per liter from January to May 2008, with the exception of diesel which increased [...]
This just in: Shootout kills 3 Abu Sayyaf suspects in Payatas, but the police and military are sending conflicting statements whether or not the raid which lead to the deaths of the three was related to the manhunt for the perpetrators of last Tuesday’s Batasan bomb blast. This is what the cops are saying:
“[Philippine National [...]
