Farmer Runs Amok

BARANGAY MILAGROSA, SOGOD – A crazy farmer here who had been destroying his neighbors crops and threatening to hack passersby with his Sundang was shot in the leg when he attacked policemen who were sent there to pacify him. Police identified the trouble maker as 49 year old Mario Galambia.

According to SPO1 Raul Luterte a group of barangay officials led by barangay captain Paulo Dublas had gone to the police station to report Galambia’s weird antics and had accompanied them to the suspect’s house. He said when they invited Galambia to the police station for questioning he went ballistic and attacked them with his sundang.

Luterte said they fired several warning shots in the air, but he ignored them, so they shot him in the right leg. The suspect is now in police custody and will be examined by a psychiatrist to check if he is really insane. If not, he will be charged with assaulting an officer of the law.

Note. The only problem with this plan is that there is only one psychologist in Southern Leyte that we know about and she was working at the provincial capitol the last time we checked. So let’s just assume Galambia is crazy, put him in jail, and throw away the key.

Carpenter Electrocuted

BARANGAY CALAYUGAN, HINUNANGAN – A 49 year old carpenter was electrocuted here when he fell while installing an electric galvanized iron post and had touched a live SOLECO power line. Neighbors said Alberto Tagnipez and his nephew Normel Del Rosario were hired by the barangay council there for the Sangguniang Kabataan project.

Note: From what we know it’s the TRANSCO that is responsible for accidents involving electric power lines. So if the wife of the unlucky carpenter wants to sue for damages it’s TRANSCO they should sue. But of course this would take years to resolve, and the only beneficiary would be her lucky lawyer.