PNP Sponsored by Tanduay Rhum

Is Tanduay using the PNP in its advertising campaign?  It sure seems that way.

Is there any other country where a liquor company is allowed to use the police to promote their product? In the second picture the banner is not on PNP grounds and is just a tarp. But in the first picture there is an official PNP insignia, the sign is not a flimsy banner but is made of plastic and lit up internally, and in addition to this banner there is also, on the top of the PNP building, (which I did not take picture of), another huge banner advertising Tanduay. Is Tanduay paying the PNP for advertising space?

The marriage of the PNP with Tanduay is disturbing. Of course no one cares and I doubt either the PNP or Tanduay would understand what makes this advertising campaign completely inappropriate. How much crime is the result of drunkenness?

What's next? Cigarettes companies making banners for hospitals?

This is What Happens When You Politely Ask Your Neighbour to Turn Down Their Karaoke

Today a neighbour celebrated his 60th birthday. By 9pm the party had been going on for 12 hours. I was headed to slumberland except for the loud music barring my entrance.  So I walked over to my neighbours house and politely asked them to turn down their karaoke so I could get some sleep.

Thirty minutes later this happens:

A loud motorcycle, a thrown bottle, and a kick at the gate to the house.  I got to the window just in time to see two men speed off.  I couldn't make out who they were but I knew where they came from.

Despite the people at the party admitting the thrown bottle came from them the police could do nothing because I could not identify the assailants.  But the police did admonish them to turn down their karaoke because they had received other complaints.

So this is where politeness gets you in the Philippines. 

Nowhere.