Best Posts in Thread: Terrorist guys land bankas on Santander Beach? Info?

That part has me raising an eyebrow. 3 boats to bring 9 bad guys and the boats are big enough to come from Mindanao.

I remember watching on the news after a London terrorist incident. The police spokesperson said that after a terror incident, eye witnesses are the most unreliable source of info available as they are all scared and the all start to see bogeymen everywhere.

Having witnessed black clad men getting off dive boats in that area I am leaning towards the idea that someone saw a bunch of 9 divers with spear guns coming back from a dive and the story went nuts. But that is not to say there were no fisherboats with bad guys, just that I am not ducking for cover right now until I hear more about the story.

Let me add another twist. When I lived in Cebu, in an complex with other foreigners, one scared guy came running in to say he had seen a bunch of terrorists in the area. What he had seen were guys with their shirts over their heads, wearing dark glasses, probably a bunch of those guys who cut grass with weedeaters having a break.

 

No info on Santander, but per phone conversation with out niece yesterday (we are in the US), Marawi "refugees" are showing up in Bayawan.

 

I would suggest you have not been here long enough if you have not had anyone point a gun at you "in jest", in the same way they will throw firecrackers at you when your back is turned or through the open window of your car as you pass by. If none of those things have happened to you then I must either be the unluckiest SOB who ever lived here for a decade or you are leading a charmed life.

 

It occurs to me that: If Philippine citizens, with licensed firearms, land a boat on Santander beach and get out of it with their licenced firearms, and since there is no martial law declared on Cebu island, what exactly are the authorities supposed to/allowed to do?

 

Read again what I wrote mate, not blaming the internet for fake News, before I had no News, but since I have got the internet back on I hear so much more News where as before with Filipino News on one snowy channel (which I did not understand) no News Papers to read, no Magazines, then; in hindsight, NO NEWS WAS GOOD NEWS! It was better when I was like a clueless Mushroom and did not know is what I meant. Now; after the initial onslaught of catching up with News around the World, back home and here, I have learnt to find other things to occupy my time rather than waste it on News in general unless I think it directly affects me or my family in some way.

 

Sometimes Brian that can be a good way to be, Less Stress in many cases

 

SPOT ON Jimbo!!!

That is in part why I posted the FAKE News links in another thread... With the local gossip you believe 1% and ignore the other 99% and with all of the FAKE News sites, as well as the unscrupulous 'legit' News sites clamoring to be "THE FIRST WITH THE NEWS" it is almost the same % ratio in my way of thinking, but it seems like so many to WANT to believe in 'worse case scenario'...

Oh, and they exist everywhere...