Curfew nets P1.5M in kotong
Posted by commiedyan on November 30, 2007
by Mon Tofu
The curfew imposed from midnight to 5 a.m. in the wake of the ‘protest action’ by Sen. Antonio Trillanes and Gen . Danilo Lim yesterday, netted a total of P1.5 million in kotong (petty bribes) from Metro Manila residents who were mostly unaware of it, police sources said. In a press briefing last night, national police chief Avelino Razon said that those manning police checkpoints had been warned not to demand kotong. However, our sources said the collections were centralized at the various police stations in the interest of transparency and proper accounting.
Among those caught violating the emergency regulation, dubbed by human rights lawyers as unconstitutional, were balut vendors, striptease dancers, drunks, and vagrants.
Kotong is one of the major complaints of public utility drivers reeling from rising gasoline prices.
The Philippine Onion 
Cry, my Beloved Country « Small World * Big Possibilities said
[…] imposed curfew led to less profit for taxi drivers and evening-based businessmen, and apparently 1.5 million worth in kotong– all because of yesterday’s ruckus. GMA or Trillanes, who is to blame? That’s […]
MANILA BAY WATCH said
Hah!
Our disappearing civil liberties, or why some liberties are greater than others, especially if you have been forced to disappear « The Philippine Onion said
[…] physics: Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until a checkpoint appears, in which case kotong will have to be paid for the body to regain its momentum. If no kotong is paid, the body will […]