PHIL KIDNAPPING SYNDICATE

I received an email that is really disturbing. Yes, I've heard of this already and was quite alarmed in regards to the sophistication of the crime. Well, the manner that they do it is still crude, but to have Doctors readily available to check the just kidnapped children to see if they are fit, is no handicraft of a poverty-stricken criminal either. To have the luxury of being able to afford to even think and implement such scheme is surely an indication of a higher level of understanding of the purpose of the crime. It is not a crime driven by poverty but of greed, a deed to answer, not the call of a churning stomach but of the echo of a not yet-brimming-bank-account.

Opinions aside, I heard of the news of one abducted child who was let loose because the doctor inside the van where she was held hostage declared that she has a heart condition. It's scary, how children are not only taken foricbly but rather harvested like one would in a farm but this time not for food but for organs to be sold in black markets. The level of sophistication in this type of crime is almost unbelievable, I thought, the Philippines being a third world country, I thought we will initially only have to worry about crimes resulting from poverty...it's either I was wrong or that we are already pass the initial stage (whatever that means)...

Who would thought that this can happen? but it is happening and it is scary.It is one thing to sell drugs, but it's abominable to kill helpless children for profit.

This serves as a warning for parents to be diligent in keeping their children safe.

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PHIL KIDNAPPING SYNDICATE

Latest Phil. Kidnapping syndicate: victim's internal organs

Pakikalat na lang. Napakahalaga po ng e-mail na ito I don't
believe this story until last weekend, when I went home to Pampanga, my
mom told me this news. One of our neighbors witnessed the funeral. There
is a grade 6 student near our barangay, who was missing for 2 days.
There are posters of his picture everywhere... after how many days, the
body was found with missing eyes and kidney... a Php20,000 was inserted
on his body with a note 'PAKI LIBING NA LANG...'


Hindi lang white van ang gamit nila ngayon may green, black at
maroon. Me look-out nakamotor pag me nakitang bata tinatawag doon sa
kasama na nasa Van, take note may kasama na silang doktor na nag-aalis
ng organ. Even sa mga subdivision nakapasok na rin sila kaya inform nyo
sa Guard nyo. Sa amin sa Dasma kahapon grabe dami ng Pulis at Barangay
sa Gate Red Alert kasi may 3 batang nakuha around Dasmarinas, Cavite May
1 nakaburol sa AREA-H2 walang mata at Internal Organ with 70,000 na
pera.

Even yung Elem. School sa tapat ng subd. namin di na muna
pinapasok yung mga bata kahapon grabe nakakatakot po. Sa Manggahan Trece
Cavite, mag-ina magkasama pilit na kinuha yung bata, lumaban yung nanay,
ayun binugbog tapos nadala yung bata last week nakita yung bata sa
Paliparan patay na din wala ng organ at mata. Meron ngang sketch nuong
isang kasama nakapost na din duon sa Gate ng subd namin. This morning in
Kawit Cavite 2 bata, nawawla at sa Quezon 3 year old na batang babae
nakita patay walang heart at kidney.

News:
World Kidnapping in Southern Luzon ,
Victim's Internal Organs Missing By Jean Stuart Marc h 09, 2008

Kidnapping is rampant nowadays. Kidnappers usually asked ransom
money from the parents of their victims. But lately, I was disturbed of
the news about the kidnap victims whose internal organs were missing
after they were found. In Ibaan, Batangas four children were abducted.
One of them was found with the pair of eyes missing and with Php 30,000
pesos on his/her mouth. Three were found with missing internal organs.
There was also report in Tanauan, Batangas with a missing heart and Php
8,000 pesos on the hole of the victim's chest. It's really creepy.


Lately, there have been reports that the kidnappings is not only
happening in Batangas. There were also similar incidents in Cavite and
Laguna. Last Wednesday, Marc h 5, my friend told me that there was a
third year high school student (from a school in San Pedro, Laguna) was
abducted on her way home. I still haven't heard about what happened to
the victim. I heard that a syndicate is behind this kidnapping and they
are selling the organs to the black market.


Text messages and email messages has been circulating saying
that a white van with plate no. VMM 507 is said to be the kidnappers
van. In our place the cartographic sketch of the kidnapper and the plate
no. of the vehicle used by the kidnapper were posted everywhere.
Residents in our area in Laguna were already afraid. Students going to
school were now accompanied by their parents and yayas. It has been
reported that the kidnappers where luring children going to and from
school.



Our school management even released a letter to parents to watch
for their children when going to school and while playing. Kindly
include them in your prayer.

Thanks a lot!

REV. MR. PETE PELIMIANO
Deacon, Archdiocese of San Francisco

Third World Driving Tips and Hints Part 2

Part two of the driving tips and hints by PJ O'rourke.
**pictures are not mine but was randomly taken from the google search engine.


Animals in the right of way
As a rule of thumb, you should slow down for donkeys, speed up for goats, and stop for cows. Donkeys will get out of your way eventually, and so will pedestrians. But never actually stop for either of them or they'll take advantage, especially the pedestrians. If you stop in the middle of a crowd of Third World pedestrians, you'll be bying Chiclets and bogus antiquities for days.

Drive like hell through the goats. It's almost impossible to hit a goat. On the othe rhand, it's almost impossible to not hit a cow. Cows are immune to horn-honking, shouting, swats with sticks, and taps on the hind quarters with the bumper. The only thing you can do to make a cow move is swerve to avoid it, which will make the cow move in front of ou with lightning speed.

Actually the most dangerous animals are the chickens. In the United States, when you a ball roll into the street, you hit your brakes becuase you know the next thing you'll see is a kid chasing it. In the Third World country, it's not hte balls the kids are chasing, but the chickens. Are they practicing punt returns with a leghorn? Dribbling it? Playing stick-hen? I odn't know. But Third World Wonders are remarkable fond of their chicken and, also, their children (population problems notwithstanding). If you hit one or both, they may survive. But you will not.

Accidents
Never look where you're going -- you'll only scare yourself. Nonetheless, try to avoud collisions. There are bound to be more people in that bus, truck or even on that Moped than there are in your car. At best, you'll be screamed deaf. And if the police do happen to be around, standard procedure is to throw everyone in jail regardless of fault. This is done to forestall blood feuds, which are a popular hobby in many of these places. Remember the American consul is very busy fretting about that Marxist insurrection, and it may be months before he comes to visit.

If you do have an accident, the only thing to do is go on the offensive. Throw big wads of American money at everyone, and hope for the best.

Safety Tips
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your safety belt (or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-fie minutes.

Third World Driving Hints & Tips Part 1

I was reading "Holidays from hell" last night. The books is by PJ O'ROURKE and he is just witty and hilarious. Anyways, wanna share something from the book. This excerpt was written during the days when Marcos was finally overthrown and Cory Aquino came into power, and is in the process of 'rebuilding' our nation. Oddly enough, some things on this excerpt still holds true, while others are not -- please bear into mind that this is not only about the Phiippines he has written about but other third world countries, including ITALY (Italy, as he said, is technically part of hte Third World, but no one has told the Italians). If one looks closely, it's more than a scrutiny of our roads and driving -- but rather a closer look of our nation in road sign signals.

**pictures are not mine but are taken randomly from google search engine.

THIRD WORLD DRIVING HINTS & TIPS
Part one

Road Hazards
What would be a road hazard any place, in the Third World is probably the road. There are two techniques for coping with this. One is to drive very fast so your wheels "get on top" of the ruts and your car sails over the ditches and gullies. Predictably, this will result in disaster. The other technique is to drive very slow. This will also result in disaster. No matter how slowly you drive into a ten-foot hole, you're still going to get hurt. You'll find the locals themselves can't make up their minds. Either they drive at 2 mph -- which they do every time there is absolutely no way to get around them. Or else they drive at 100 mph-- which they docoming right at you when you finally get a chance to pass the guy going 2 mph.

Basic information
It's important to have your facts straight before you begin piloting a car around an underdeveloped country. For instance, which side of the road do they drive on? This is very easy. They drive on your side, That is, you can depend on it, any oncoming traffic will be on your side of the road. Also, how do you translate kilometers into miles? Most people don't know this, but one kilometer = ten miles, exactly. True a kilometer is 62% of a mile, but if somethign is one hundred kilometers away, read tat as on thousand miles because roads are 620% worse than anything you've eer seen. And when you see a 50-kph speed limit, you might as well figure that means 500 mph becuase nobody cares. The Third world does not have Broderick Crawford and the HIghway Patrol. Outside the cities, it doesn't have many police at all, Law enforcement is the hand sof the army. And soldiers, if feel like it, will shoot you no matter what speed you're going.

Traffic signs and signals
Most Developing nations use international traffic symbols. Americans may find themselves perplexed by road signs that look like boy scout merit badges and by such things as an iguana silhouette with a red diagonal bar across it. Don't wory, the natives don't know what they mean either. The natives do, however have an elaborate set of signals used to convey information to the traffic around them. For example, if you trying to pass someone and he blinks his left turn signal, it means go ahead, Either that or it means a large truck is coming around the bend, and you'll get killed if you try. You'll find that out in a moment.

Signaling is further complicated by festive decorations found on many vehicles. It can be hard to tell a hazard flasher from a string of christmas-tree lighst wrapped around the bumper, and brake lights can be easily confused witht he dozen red Jesus Statuettes and te ten stuffed animals with blinking eyes on the package shelf.

Dangerous Curve
Dangerous curves are marked, at least in Christian lands, by a wooden white cross positioned to make the curves even more dangerous. These crosses are memorials to people who;ve die in traffic accidents, and they give a rough statistical indication of how much trouble you're likely to have at that spot int he road. Thus, when you come through a curve in a full-power slide and are suddenly confronted with a veritable forest of crucifixes, you know you're dead.

Learning to drive like a native
It's important to understand that in the Third World most driving is done with the horn, or "Egyptian Brake Pedal", as it is known. There is a precise and complicated etiquette of horn use. Honk your horn only under the following circumstances:

1. When anything blocks the road.
2. When anything doesn't.
3. When anything might.
4. At red light.
5. At green light.
6. at all other times.

Roadblocks

One thing you can count in Third World countries is trouble. There's always some uprising, coup, or Marxist insurrection goin on, and this means military roadblocks. There are tw kind sof military roadblocks, the kind where you slow down sot hey can look you over, and the kind where you come to a full stop so they can steal your luggage. The important thing is that you must never stop at the slow-down kind of roadblock. If you stop, they'll think you're a terrorist about to attack them, and they'll shoot you. And you must alwyas stop at the full stop kind of roadblock. If you just slow down, they'll think you're a terrorist about to attck them, and they'll shoot you. How do you tell the difference etweent he two kind of roadblocks? Here's the fun part: YOU CAN'T!

(The terrorists, of course, have roadblocks of their own. They alwyas make you stop. Sometimes with land mines.)