Quirino Hostage-taking Bloodbath Is a Brainchild of the Sumerians, Chinese, and Wright Brothers!

The hostage-taking standoff in Quirino yesterday, if I have to describe it, is a nothing but a textbook-case scenario. You have a bus with passengers, a hostage taker, and demands. How in the world can that result to a brutal ending?! I mean, if there is a list of classic, textbook hostage crisis, I am sure what happened yesterday is one of the topnotchers.

So, what happened? Who made the wrong move?

These two (Orville and Wilbur) are responsible
to what happened yesterday.

Well, according to Malacanang, and from the President himself, it was partly because of the media. According to him, the media should not have aired the 'arresting' of the hostage taker's brother. According to him, had the media not aired that situation (knowing the hostage taker is monitoring what is happening outside the bus, maybe he did not "snap" and resort to a killing spree.

I agree. In fact, I agree 1000%. And let me just add also the following reasons of the bloody crisis that the president should have blamed/mentioned along with the media:

1. Sumerians. At around 3500 BC, the first wheel (or at least its prototype) was invented by this ancient civilization. If the Sumerians did not exist, the wheel would not have been invented. And yes, probably, there would be no transportation vehicles like the bus. And with no bus invented by the modern civilization, the hostage taking IN THE BUS might not have happened.

2. Chinese. It was the ancient Chinese who invented the gunpowder... specifically, it was their military force who first used gunpowder as a weapons technology. Now, if the Chinese did not exist, there would probably be no gunpowder. And with no gunpowder, I am sure the hostage taker will have a hard time staging that drama especially if he is using a knife (perhaps) only.

3. Wright brothers. It was Orville and Wilbur Wright who invented the airplane. The Philippines is an archipelago. There is no way the Hong Kong nationals could have chosen the Philippines as a tourist destination if they have to travel by sea... especially now that a lot of storms visit our country this time of the year. Had the Wright brothers failed to invent the airplane, there would be noone (or at least only a few local citizens) to hostage in the first place!


To hell with the media's constitutionally protected right to let the people know what is happening... to hell with the uncoordinated approach of the ground troops when they stormed the bus... to hell with the police's arrogance of not listening to media personnel that there is an emeregency exit that they can open, or the best way to open the bus door is by a sudden hard push or really hard pull... to hell with the ground commander's incompetence to handle the crisis situation... So, it doesn't really matter if Noynoy did not notice these stuff or did not consider these stuff as the more significant reasons of the failure.


Ang galing mo, Noy!

I admire Noynoy for having the guts to blame media (when noone else would) for what had happened. But again, he should have included the Summerians, the Chinese civilization, and most importantly, the Wright brothers.

PS: Oh, and while we are at it, I think Noynoy should have blamed Mendoza's (the hostage taker) being a Filipino (average life expectancy: 60++ years). Mendoza is a 55-year-old police officer. Had he been a resident of -- for example -- Swaziland, he's probably dead more than two decades ago. (Average life expectancy of residents of Swaziland: 31.88 years). Hence, no hostage taking crisis.