Please alert friends or family who might be coming
home for christmas.

Unbelievable!!

With Christmas fast approaching, several
enterprising crooks at the NAIA
have cooked up another easy money scheme to fund
their Christmas shopping. A bullet or two is slipped
inside bags with outside zippers and so when the
poor sod claims his luggage, he is arrested for
carrying an "accessory to a
dangerous weapon". But the story does not end with
him in some airport
detention room, no, he is carted to the Pasay police
station where he has to spend the night alongside
recidivists (habitual criminals) and other scums of
the earth. And the place ain't no Hilton either.
After 12 hours or so inside the slammer, feelers
will be sent to see if he's willing to settle the
case for a measly sum of 60k, that is, 60k EACH for
the judge and whoever else wants to milk him dry. A
little bit of haggling occurs and
voila, he's a free man once again.

The above situation really happened but in real
life, the bullet wasn't
found in some man's luggage, it was "discovered" in
a 75 year old woman's
bag. And the 75 year old woman had to be carried out
of the jail cell after
she agreed to pay settle with the law enforcement
officers. She was carried
out because she could barely walk after spending the
night in the cramped
and stinky jail cell. The 75 year old woman was
represented by our
pediatrician's lawyer husband who again had to
represent her after the NAIA
official found another bullet in her luggage on her
way back to the US. Oh
well, maybe the lola really was a terrorist or
perhaps she just became a
juicier target because the crooks already knew that
she was willing to
settle. You decide. Atty. Romero says that this sort
of case is the third
he's handled in the last few months. No surprise
there, for it seems to be a very well-oiled
operation and it will probably be implemented more
now what with the upcoming barrage of balikbayans
coming home in time for the
holidays. So as not to become a victim, please lock
your checked-in luggage,even those outside and side
zippers. Or better yet, get one of those hard cases
with no zippers or pockets in front or on the side.
At least this way,no opportunity will be created for
some unscrupulous person to slip in a little extra
in your bag and thus create a little extra for
himself.

Ingat na lang mga peeps.