Afraid of the dark NO HOLDS BARRED Armida Siguion-Reyna 06/21/2011

Afraid of the dark

NO HOLDS BARRED

Armida Siguion-Reyna

06/21/2011
Saturday night, on the way to the birthday celebration of my dear friend Ali Sotto, a lazy glance out of the window jolted me out of my seat, grabe ang dilim, wala ka nang halos maaninag. It was bad enough that the lights on lampposts had wattage obviously brought down low, on top of this, not all the lampposts were in use. Going down stretches of road, you could see every other lamp post lang ang naka-on — an open invitation to commit crime, like no other.

I related the incident over lunch last Sunday, but the general opinion was for me not to overly worry about what happens at night, as criminals strike anywhere now these days, and that as a matter of fact just recently, in what used to be the homey district of Kamuning, a gristly car hi-jacking had occurred in broad daylight: A woman on her way to yoga class was at gunpoint forced to go down her new car, and then pushed to the ground as she was fighting back, then while on the ground run over by the car thieves..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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