When one thinks of motorcycle assassins in the Philippines politicians come to mind. So many politicians are gunned down on a regular basis. But it's not only politicians who feel the wrath of an unknown assailant. Sometimes it's just normal regular people. Like these two.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/01/13/1884564/bowling-champ-shot-dead-san-juan |
A member of the national bowling team was killed by a lone gunman in San Juan City on Friday.
Senior Superintendent Dindo Reyes, San Juan police chief, identified the victim as Angelo Nathaniel Constantino.
Based on the information they have gathered, the police official said Constantino worked as a bowling coach and won a gold medal in the World Youth Championship in Venezuela in 1992.
The shooting happened at the second floor of the E-Lanes Bowling Center in Barangay Greenhills at around 5 p.m.
Quoting a police report, Reyes said the victim was having snacks at a restobar when an unidentified assailant wearing a face mask approached him.
According to a witness, the gunman posed as a customer and even talked with the cashier.
The assailant pulled out a handgun and shot Constantino once in the head. The victim died while being rushed to a hospital.
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| https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/01/20/1886531/hog-trader-gunned-down-malabon |
A man in the hog meat business was shot dead by motorcycle-riding assailants in Malabon Friday.
Rolando Ruado, 46, was driving his motorcycle, which has a side car he used for hog meat deliveries, when the assailants shot him in Barangay Maysilo at around 3:30 p.m.
The victim’s widow told police probers that Ruado had a grudge with a neighbor.
The death of Rolando Ruado could be the result of a personal grudge. Maybe there was loud music or the dog messed in his yard or any number of things. Same with the bowler. Could be a personal grudge of some sort. But in any healthy well functioning society no grudge would be settled this way. Only a sick society has an epidemic of motorcycle assassins freely running about shooting whoever they are paid to shoot as a way of settling disputes be they neighbourly or political.
Too many people like to chalk up the seemingly recent spate in motorcycle killings to the violent rhetoric of Duterte but this is not the case. These killings have been happening regularly for years.
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| https://news.abs-cbn.com/nation/metro-manila/01/28/14/pnp-riding-tandem-cases-reached-3000-2013 |
a TOTALLY failed culture. Chaos everywhere. Laws are never followed. If you are caught disobeying, then YOU are at fault because everyone else is disobeying so it must be ok. I think its called anarchy. Pathetic society here.
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