On my way to work today I met a couple of interesting people. The first one was a fellow passenger on the jeep. I didn't notice her until she asked the driver to stop. People in our city usually say "Ilugar lang" to signify that they want the driver to pull over so they can get off the ride.
She said, "Ilugar lang."
Driver says, "Sa unahan lang, bawal dinhi." (roughly translates: OK, we'll pull over up ahead, it's not allowed here.)
Lady goes, "ILUGAR LANG!"
Damn, I mean she said it herself. When you say "Ilugar lang," you are actually telling the driver to find a decent place to pull over. That way, it's a lot different from saying "Stop the car!" or "Halt!"
The rest of the passengers ended up snapping at her for contradicting herself.
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About a couple of hundred meters down the road the driver hollers to a street vendor to buy a stick of cigarette. I was thinking to myself, he's not gonna light up here...
He did. Right in front of the "No Smoking" sign on his windshield.
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These encounters reminded me of the recent issue (well, actually it's an age-old issue) where ANOTHER college student was suspected to have died after going through hazing trying to join a fraternity. A LAW fraternity at that. I mean, what's the point of taking law when they break it even before graduating? Repeatedly, and intentionally. These people kill with no remorse.
Since 1970, there has been at least one hazing-related death on a US college campus each year(HTTP://www.greeklife.uconn.edu/hazing_stats.html)
Given that there are hundreds of campuses in the US, you figure out how many kids are murdered by the organization they're trying to join every year. It's crazy. No, it's stupid. They invite people to join them, and then kill them when they try? They're worse than serial killers. At least those guys didn't promise their victims anything.
Hazers should get far worse penalties than serial killers do.
