Life is Cheap

**Dieseler** · April 14th, 2006 07:37 PM

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** · April 14th, 2006 08:00 PM

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

**laklak** · April 14th, 2006 08:11 PM

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** · April 14th, 2006 08:23 PM

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** · April 14th, 2006 08:37 PM

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

**aceshark** · April 14th, 2006 08:44 PM

hay, wala ako masabi dito. kakalungkot.

**scalpel** · April 14th, 2006 08:56 PM

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

**delprado** · April 14th, 2006 09:04 PM

... 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** · April 14th, 2006 09:59 PM

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

dapat ang mga ganyang driver ang sagasaan...

**chua_riwap** · April 15th, 2006 01:32 AM

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!