Friday, October 24, 2008

Robbery during races

Just wanted to share the incident experienced by fellow Happy Feet runners Let and Erick during Botak Paa-Bilisan last Sunday. Their new SLR camera and cellphone were stolen probably while the race is ongoing. Here is part of Let’s email to the Happy Feet group:

but something bad happened that race day sa amin, naka park kamimalapit sa rox, ninakaw ang camera namin at celphone ko which i thinkhappened habang tumatakbo kami, sinungkit yung sasakyan namin atkinuha ang mga yun.

ni-report namin sa police (and were not hoping na marerecover pa angmga yun, i just don’t believe sa sistema ng mga “kinauukulan”, nooffense po sa may mga kamaganak na autoridad). sabi lang nya wala dawcoordination yung mga organizers sa kanila (pinasa pa sa iba ang sisi,hay..), at hindi lang daw kami ang nanakawan (defensive), meron pa rawiba. (pero hindi ba dapat mag bantay pa din sila kasi yun angobligasyon nila), i felt so sad nung time na yun, almost 6mos. pa langsa amin yung slr na camera na yun. pero sabi ni erick pasalamat pa dinkami sa Diyos kasi hindi kinuha yung sasakyan.”

I heard that this is not the first time this incident happen. May this serve as a warning to other runners to take the necessary precaution.

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