Living and dying
| SHE SAYS |
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
Afan of horror movies (the gorier, the better), my husband tells me that there is nothing to be scared of in those films. What should scare me more, he says, is the evil in real people, for this can really harm you.
I must admit, he has a point. A week ago, I realized how such evil seems to be drawing too near for my peace of mind. A shootout took place between members of police and three car thieves, who lost their lives in the process in our neighborhood in Quezon City, which used to be safe and quiet, albeit constantly abuzz with the sounds, sights and smells of daily life in Metro Manila. Similar carnapping cases and succeeding car chases and shootouts, my research reveals, have taken place in and around the same neighborhood.
In the last few years, I have heard of cases like a young woman, on her way home from work in a nearby mall, getting robbed of her hard-earned money and cell phone by an out-of-work man whom she was used to seeing sitting around a neighborhood convenience store. She never thought she would fall victim to such a crime — after all, this was a place she had walked around in since she was in diapers; this was familiar ground, a place she thought she had nothing to fear..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101101com7.html
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