⌛ Gangs of Dumaguete

Dgte has gangs if you didn't know it. Type Dumaguete into a YouTube search and watch the vids of local yokels brandishing their colors - and guns...

Here's the run down I got from a 16yo member the other night..

The Crips (with the blue bandanas) pray before and after every meeting. What they do in between times it's hard to know. Initiation is a 30 minute beating by other members.

The Bloods don't pray fwiw.

The same night on the blvd, one young guy (15yo maybe?) had a pistol in his belt under his shirt. For now it's just a cigarette lighter that looks like a pistol-but this type of behavior usually only goes in one direction doesn't it?

Last week there was some kind of fight between rival gang members down in front of the Teves house (next to Bethel) while I was in Shakey's. I didn't go out and see, but the police were called, and there were a half dozen Bloods walking away later next to Bethel.


Speaking of Shakey's, those kids helping you to back up your car when you leave are gang members..! How nice. Be sure and have an exit strategy if a drive by shooting happens while you're there..


Wiping away the tint on the rose-colored glasses, as always

 

Good information, but Sorry, it's not working....Still view Dumaguete as a great place to live,retire, visit, enjoy, etc... Even with this information, I wouldn't think twice about eating at Shakey's.

 

hmmm

Sounds like home. The more people the more idiots. Is'nt the human race wonderful.:(

 

Dumaguete then and now

During the 70’s even early 80’s, How fun it was to see Paulinians on their uniforms riding behind the Dumaguete horse carriges ( Tartanilla ) from St Paul’s to St Louis passing through Silliman – Escolta – Rizal Park peacefully.
(those were the our joy rides )

Boys use to swim from the Boulevard wall to the Pepsi Billboard.
The poor billboard was still standing last time I saw it 2004.

This is guy is just expressing what he felt about Dumaguete at the present time.
One US Marine Officer during an interview, talked about all sorts of terrorism in the PI.
“This is a lawless country” he said.

Vigilante’s can be paid to kill anyone.

 

Are you promoting terrorism or tourism? Pick one please! Your statement, "vigilantes can be paid to kill anyone." Do you call yourself a vigilante, if you kill just about "anyone" you see in the street? Think about it. :(

 

How nice were those days when people can swim by the sea in the boulevard,even silliman Univ (when it was yet called silliman institute ) before the swimmingpool was made ,was said to have their PE swimming lesson down the boulevard sea side,students had to learn to swim there,now no more...all gone are those good ol' days when the word 'pollution' wasn't known.

Despite of the lawless tag he put in this country, that US marine hasn't come to realize his country is sadly a 'gun country',i think almost closely synonymous to a lawless country,danger, danger .If i were to think about it ,he should not get blinded that almost everyone in his homeland carries guns ,even high school pupil can get hold of one ,perhaps not legally ,but easy ; when going lunatic can quickly express himself having a shooting spree .Nevertheless to mention the latest virginia tech shootings done by one mentally deranged Korean.Life's too easy to take .

Hired killers can be at any place ,I wouldn't be too worried about them ,even here there are people who can take ones life for money . But living a low profile life,not too many personal enemies, or best is living in peace with everybody.When it's ones fate to die then it must be come the time for one to go. Sometimes I believe in fate,not all the time though ,dunno about the others.I encountered two d*mn road accidents which nearly took me. I'm still here goodness.Guess it wasn't my time yet.But it pays to be careful and cautious.

 

It's my country, too, but what can we do about it? Our government is dead-set against changing the laws. Of course, our Constitution gave us the "right to bear arms", though I think some degree of restraint can be put on that.

 

Gun control laws are the idiot's solution to the problem. The USA already has about 25 THOUSAND gun laws on the books, and look what "good" they've done. ZILCH!

A supposed "lack" of gun control has virtually nothing to do with the problem.

Germany has some of the strictest gun control laws on earth, and over the last several years they have had multiple incidents of mass shootings at schools. Since their severe gun control laws haven't worked, they are now putting restrictions on violent video games.

There have been incidents of mass murder in Russia, China and Japan---three countries where it is virtually impossible for anybody but the politicians, military and police to own guns.

The three biggest mass murderers in history were all staunch advocates of gun control--Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. They disarmed the populace, and the mass murders began.

 

I've got no idea what the real answer to this problem is. It is almost a world-wide epidemic. Here in beautiful Perth, home invasions and car-jackings are becoming the hobby of druggies....only twenty years ago I was flying in and out of Perth and checking into unlocked, pre-arranged motel rooms at 0300 in the morning. Those days are very very long gone.....

I personally would like to see a multi-national force (formed by the UN is fine - but answerable to absolutely no one) to take out drug lords, cultivation centres, major dealers, and the politicians who aid them. I don' t think individual police services and drug agencies can really handle it. It is just too big a problem everywhere..