Hostage Drama.

I woke up and still devastated about what had happened. Waking up to bad news, bad status updates, and bad tweets will make you want to not go outside and hide like a hermit crab.

Yesterday, August 23, Rolando Mendoza hi-jacked a bus with chinese and some british tourists. While I was in a cab going to work, Ive heard that he had already released 7 of his hostages. I can also recall the police being interviewed that "everything seemed to turn out well."

But at around 7pm, I overheard some people talking that all of the hostages remained was killed according to the driver, who escaped from his cuffs and out the bus window. My heart pumped and thought... Oh my God what just happened.

By the time I was home, rain was pouring so hard and I got the chance to watch it closely on TV and had a LOT of questions for our policemen, and the officials who were supposed to handle this well. I was also curious if they confirmed that everybody was dead.

Until I saw smoke coming out of the bus, and according to the newscaster, they gassed the hell out of him. Few minutes later, the hijacker got shot. I got really annoyed when all of the people around the vicinity rushed near the hostage area after the incident. And also to the fact that they werent even controlled by the police, who is actually trying to get in the bus without gas masks. Were they checking if the tear gas really worked? I mean logic. I watch too much police drama and the last time I checked, tear gas penetrates 10-peso flu masks. No stretchers for the bodies, and wait. MORE USISEROS.

To what Ive heard and seen today, the policemen (around... 15 or more) had only one mallet to shatter the windows. When they tried opening the bus door, the rope snapped.

Where the fuck are our equipments? Aren't we paying enough taxes... oh lets not go there. I know we just recently topped the Most Corrupt country in Asia. Woot woot *raise the roof*. /end of sarcasm

I am heartbroken, dismayed and really drained. As a citizen of this country, I would like to apologize for the incompetence of our cops to the families who lost a loved-one from this tragedy. I would also like to apologize from the badly-handled wounded bodies that they were trying to recover.

I think I should do this, bulleted.

I would like to apologize for:
- the absence of our President during the incident.
- the captured smile of our President during the incident.
- the unempathic, unapologetic speech of our President after the incident.
- for the lack of our equipments.
- for the lack of training.
- for the people who swarmed around the area where evidence could be gathered.
- for the media who exposed every movement of the policemen, while the gunman was watching TV.
- for the gunman's brother, who could actually win an award for being overly dramatic, being the possible reason why the gunman frantically shot his M-16.
- for the media for focusing their cameras on that moment.
- for the lack of logic, and strength of our policemen, who tied a rope to a door so they could pull it, knowing that it will just jam it more.

Or you should watch it in Youtube. That, you could see how horrifying stupidity is.

I'm never sorry that I'm Filipino. But we should say sorry for being too ignorant.

Especially to those who didn't deserve such tragedy.