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My wife was on the back of a motorcycle recently and her cell phone fell out of her pocket near Robinsons. Soon after she called her number and someone answered and told her to come and get it. No money........
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expatron, Dec 11, 2016

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KINGCOLE said: ↑

Looks like the foreigner was gunning for trouble.
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I wonder if it was his own pepper spray that he was sprayed in the face with. Any weapon should be treated like a firearm; you better know when, where and how to use it (and show it) or you will only end up putting yourself in danger. Having it hanging off of the front of your shirt while flipping someone the bird shows you are trying to intimidate and bully people...and that you have no earthly clue how to properly use the thing.

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The person in the picture is a Canadian. There is apparently more to the story than posted on the Local Dumaguete Facebook.
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Of course, but throwing that finger out with the pepper spray hanging on his shirt was probably not the brightest move he made.
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Looks like the foreigner was gunning for trouble.
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Right.....so let's go for every citizen then. TB is an air transmitted disease, and not exclusive to food handlers. Why not your trike diver? Or the local petrol pump attendant? Maybe the lady that sells tickets for a ferry to another island?

Strikes me as a very selective targeting of a sector of the population that no medical evidence suggests is more vulnerable than other sectors of the population. Whole population based inoculation stops the spread of TB, not grabbing P900 off your candederia gal because you won't grant her a license to trade without an X-ray (a very dubious way of establishing TB anyhow). Is this Mayor medically qualified to screen X rays? Last I heard he used to be a trader in hardware. Has he got the time to screen everyone connected with food or water vending? I doubt it both ways.

TB is a huge problem here I agree. But let's be fair and even handed. If the Mayor has a bee in his bonnet about TB then how about starting in the schools.....that's the scientific way of going about it.

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Dunno if this the right place as I wasn't shocked, more 'resigned'. A kind of here we go again....

The good lady comes back from a hard day's toil to report a number of 'developments' in business. Viz: all of a sudden, without any warning, no time to prepare, it's happened. The Mayor of our local municipality implements a number of new 'health' policies for all citizens in business. From the lowliest fish peddler to the housewife selling puto cheese cakes for a few extra pesos. From the sari-sari stall to the grocer in town. Everyone has to have an x-ray and a sputum test. Total cost P900 pp. or thereabouts. Or no business license at renewal time.

Notwithstanding that the local hospital ran out of X-ray materials and the labs are backed up for weeks I just don't know many Filipinos in my neck of the woods that have that sort of cash to hand. They're going to be facing stiff fines for non compliance and will risk have their businesses taken away from them ( as if the demand for P900 doesn't put them under pressure already on top of the business license fees the municipality imposes). I've heard of employers passing this cost on to their employees via a cut in their wages. And nope, I've decided to pay my staffs X-rays and sputum tests, that's plain unfair.

Thus if in any way you handle food stuff or even water even you have to have a clean bill of health if you are vending or working with it. I'm sitting having a cold one under a tree ATM staring out over the bay bay. A terribly thin, near malnourished Lola with grandchild is picking shells. No doubt she'll want to peddle them in an hour or two...I'll bet she hasn't seen P900 in her life.

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From what I have seen and read TB is a very big concern in the Philippines. I see nothing wrong with food handlers having this test.
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A young guy from India with a head problem got up at my neighbors apartments at 5Am. Got the garden hose, a hammer and a knife. Started spraying water through the window of the maintenance guys room, then threaten to bash them with the hammer and stab them. He ran away before the police arrived. From what I know he has been blottered in Dauin and left without his passport and personal stuff. Will see what happens....
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Which power system is available on Negros when metered vs ground? 1x 220V or 2x 110V diametrical?
Anyway a bulb still lighting dimm after being switched off is a strange thing. Either is the switch leaking or the wiring leaks somewhere. A three point measuring should show the issue. First meter before the switch to ground. If it is 0, then the switch is mounted in the neutral wire. If it is 110 V then you (should) have a twin phase system. If it is 220 V, then the installation looks better. Now meter at second behind the switched off switch. If you have 220V before the switch, then it should be 0V. If you have any current behind the switch, then it is broken.
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I thought that only happened to my outside light, turns to a dull glow when switched off...

I have 2x PC's that have died on me here and both shocked you if you touched any metal like the case or when switching the USB Thumb Drives/USB Cables etc...
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The issue is caused by the missing ground wire. Had a similar issue once in Vietnam. Every time I touched a PC I got a quite hard electrical strike. I did metered the voltage from the case to the ground and got a steady flow of 6V and 1A. If metering after a wait, the voltage goes up to 220V. Quite dangerous. I solved this with the installment of a deep grounding pole and connected all ground wires to it.
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Dr. Shiva, Mar 5, 2017

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I am assuming this picture was taken just before the fellow got bloodied. Giving the finger here is really "just not done".
Having pepper spray hanging on your shirt does indicate "your spoiling for a scrap". It looks like he got to taste his own medicine.
He got off lucky IMO.
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And did any of us witness what happened. Some of the comments on Facebook were troubling, as some Filipinos obviously hate our guts.
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KINGCOLE, Feb 2, 2017

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