Life is Cheap

[Dieseler]

http://news.inq7.net/metro/index.php...d=72586&col=31

MANY bus drivers have a criminal bent probably because that's what they've been told by the bus operators. Pity the pedestrian that they bump because these drivers will run him over twice or three times until the victim dies.

One such driver is Rollie de Leon of Santrans Bus Co. who allegedly ran over a father and his child, whom he ran over and over on to make sure they were dead.

Larry Quimpo, 42, and his five-year-old daughter, Ronila, were riding on a motorcycle in tandem when they were sideswiped by De Leon. Told by some passengers that he had sideswiped two pedestrians, the driver backed the bus and ran over the victims.

The elder Quimpo and the girl tried to stand up after they were bumped, but the bus rolled over them many times. De Leon escaped after the accident.

What made De Leon do that? He wanted to save his operator from paying hundreds of thousands in hospital bills and medicines for the father and child.

You see, one life costs only P50,000. Altogether, the Quimpos' lives totaled P100,000.

When my staff at "Isumbong mo kay Tulfo" interviewed De Leon, he said it was an ordinary accident.

But there were witnesses. Two of them were children who said that the bus rolled over the victims several times. Children don't usually lie in a spontaneous interview.

What would you have felt if Larry Quimpo were your brother and Ronila your niece, given the statement of the witnesses?

You would have been tempted to take the law in your own hands.

[BlueBimmer]

naku ganyan talaga yang mga walang hiyang yan, sad to say

[laklak]

I dont know a lot about the law, just the stuff I learn from Law & Order SVU, pero di ba parang pre meditated na yung driver sa pagpatay dun sa dalawa? Cant he be charged with murder o kahit manslaughter man lang?

[niky]

That's murder one... and yes, he will most likely get the death penalty for it. He deserves it. They need to set an example. :mad:

Sad fact nga, life is cheap. 50k is the most you have to pay for "accidental" death... while hospital charges can run very very VERY high.

[ILuvDetailing]

yup dapat murder ang case diyan, with the way they drive they should be banned from the roads :mad:

[aceshark]

hay, wala ako masabi dito. kakalungkot.

[scalpel]

dapat death penalty twice. after lethal injection, electric chair naman; ... better vice versa..

[delprado]

... Meron dati nangyari na ganyan sa probinsya, talagang inatrasan pa yong nabangga nung driver nung bus.... the next day pinara nung kamag-anak yong isang bus of the same company na bumangga sa bata... binaril yong driver... tsk...tsk...

[team_PONGLAI_11]

...dapat na tulungan para ma-save ang buhay lalo namang papatayin...

dapat ang mga ganyang driver ang sagasaan...

[chua_riwap]

Yung FIVE STAR din notorious sa ganyan. Aatrasan yung biktima at sasagasaan ulit, masigurado lang na patay yung tao.........

Mga TONGUE NONE NEW! Makarma sana kayo!

[oldblue]

dapat murder ang i-charge sa owner ng bus lines hindi lang sa bus diver kung sila man nag-utos ng ganyan. eh pano kung mga ex-con ang bus drivers, walang patawad na papatay yan.

[vhenok]

Common knowledge na yung ganitong practise especially sa mga province, kasi nga naman mas mura magpalibing kesa magpa-ospital...

Dun sa lugar namin dami na ganitong kaso...Suki nga dito ang FIVE STAR at SANTRANS sa north. Di ko naman nilalahat pero as far as experience with these drivers, barumbado talaga at walang etiquette sila.

tsk tsk!

Kawawa naman mga biktima.

Dapat ganun din gawin sa drayber!

[oldblue]

karma lang, malas lang ng mga bus draybers pag nangyari sa pamilya nila yan na kagagawan naman ng ibang bus liners

[picantorange]

Naku, ganyan na talaga ang sinasabi ng mga operators. It's sick, but it happens. I have one question though.

DOES THE WRITER EVEN KNOW WHAT A PEDESTRIAN IS?

[spearhead_970]

dapat ay dahan-dahanin din ang pagpatay both sa bus operator and driver para maramdaman nila yong mga ginagawa nilang karumal dumal na pagpatay,..nakakaawa naman yong mga nabibiktima nila lalo na mga bata..

[nugundam93]

holeeeee sh1t.

dapat ipasara din yung company if express order yan to all their drivers.

tsk, tsk.

[aceshark]

dapat ay dahan-dahanin din ang pagpatay both sa bus operator and driver para maramdaman nila yong mga ginagawa nilang karumal dumal na pagpatay,..nakakaawa naman yong mga nabibiktima nila lalo na mga bata..

pasagasaan natin sa pison? dahan-dahan yun.

[Elroi]

the operator should also be held criminally liable pag naprove na ganun ang utos sa mga drivers nila..

at dapat lakihan ang damages kapag namatay yung nasagasaan...

[3kings]

thats sad and very true. dapat dyan bigyan ng 2 in the chest 1 in the head

[empy]

What would you have felt if Larry Quimpo were your brother and Ronila your niece, given the statement of the witnesses?

You would have been tempted to take the law in your own hands.

hindi lang tempted. i would have done it. both the bus driver and the operator. maybe even their families in front of them so they can feel what it feels like. actually, someone should preemptively take them out now before any innocent life is lost.

call that extreme, but that's what i feel they deserve (ok, probably not the families part )