Man Running From Dog and Getting Hit By A Speeding Car Is A Tragically Filipino Story

Another typical dog story from the Philippines. In fact this story is tragically and typically Filipino in every aspect.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1070355/college-student-run-over-dies

A 20-year-old college student died last Friday, Jan. 4, after a car ran him over as he and three friends were running away from a dog chasing them in Barangay Holy Spirit in Quezon City. 

Joshua Cabag had just gone out with his friends to buy food to celebrate his birthday, Chrisha Lingad, a friend of his, told INQUIRER.net. 

Cabag was a Secondary Education major at the Batangas State University – San Juan Campus. He was supposed to graduate this June, Lingad said. 

Lingad also shared on Facebook a closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of the incident, which happened at 1:57 a.m. 

The video showed Cabag and three others passing a house on Sto. Niño Street when a dog emerged from the gate and chased them. 

The group then turned at a street corner that led up to a road where a speeding car hit Cabag. 

The driver of the car did not stop. 

According to Lingad, Cabag was rushed to the Quezon City General Hospital and was still alive on arrival. But he eventually died. 

About an hour before the accident, at 12:02 a.m. Cabag made a post on Facebook mentioning his birthday. 

First of all you have this man Joshua Cabag who had literally just turned 20 years old making a Birthday Post on Facebook two minutes after midnight as if he had been staying awake just to post that very thing, blissfully unaware it would be the last FB post he would ever make. Hashtag Ironic. That's the always on Facebook angle.

Then you have Joshua and his friends going out at sometime between 12:02 am and his death at 1:57 am to buy food to celebrate his birthday. Going where? To a sari-sari store for beer and cookies? This is the can't wait to do something at the appropriate time/always in a rush angle.

Next you have a dog running out of the gate supposed to be housing him and chasing Joshua and his friends as they frantically run away to get out of the dog's path. What happens is one of the men points at the dog and then they all crowd up against the wall and begin running as the dog emerges and chases them. The entire scene is very cartoonish. This is the stupid dog owner who does not properly take care of his dog angle.

After that you have Joshua reaching the end of the alleyway or street and turning the corner right into the path of an oncoming vehicle which tosses him in the air like a chew toy and keeps on going! 

Joshua's last moment on earth

This is the careless driver angle.

Finally Joshua's friends return to the scene of the crime to light a candle in his honour when the owner of the CCTV footage approaches them and offers to give them the footage rather than to the appropriate authorities. His friend then promptly uploads the video to Facebook for the whole world to view.

“We celebrated his birthday and lit a candle on the site of the incident, that’s when the owner of the CCTV approached us and gave us [the video],” Lingad said. “We posted it so people can help us one way or another to find justice for our friend.”

https://coconuts.co/manila/news/watch-guy-running-away-dog-gets-hit-car/

This is the don't trust the corrupt PNP let's instead use Facebook to help solve this mystery angle.

If you watch this video you will not be able to make out the car.  You can't tell who the driver is.  You can't read the plates. All you can see is the dog chase the men and the car knock the life out of Joshua. You can slow it down, rewind it, play it again, put it in slow motion, pause at the moment of impact but nothing you see will ever help the girl who posted it "find justice for our friend."

However you will get the perverse pleasure out of making witty memes and puns while shouting, "You got knocked the fugg out!" as you click like and share. Joshua's death has now been stripped of any dignity and has become a spectacle. This is exactly the kind of video tabloids like The Mirror and The Daily Mail publish as clickbait.

That is the schadenfreude angle.

This story hits all the low notes of tragedy in the Philippines and will quickly be forgotten by next week. These men were just out late celebrating a friend's birthday and they would have gotten away with it if weren't for the negligent owner and his stupid dog.