Why did the chicken cross the road?

Have you guys heard the news about a certain guy being criticized online due to his -- in the words of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile -- "very rare show of courage”? Ooopsss! I'm not referring to Migs Zubiri. Here's an excerpt from an online article (from Techpinas):

Christopher bravely drove his car to what appeared to be waist-high floods.* And as the laws of Physics... would have it, his sedan (which turned out to be not amphibious after all) fell victim to the waters.
But it isn't so much this misfortune that got everyone talking about Christopher. It's the things he said as soon as he got out of his flood-soaked car that made him the online-sensation he now is.
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Apparently ... Christopher blames MMDA and everyone in sight during the incident for his mistake. He even said at one point that he 'wasn't informed' of the floods -- even if the water level was already too high not to be obvious.

Christopher Lao became a trending topic worldwide in Twitter -- surpassing yesterday's event re Migs Zubiri's resignation. Now, some people think there's something wrong with the Filipino mentality for two reasons:

1. Why do we make fun of people making mistakes? Don't we commit mistake ourselves?
2. How come we prioritize things like this one over a significant event in our national political history, that is, Migs Zubiri's resignation from the Senate?

I vehemently disagree that there's something wrong here in the first place. In my assessment, it was not the mistake of the person that infuriated the online community -- it's Mr. Lao's attitude after committing that mistake. He blamed everyone else -- the reporter, the bystanders, even the employees of the MMDA -- instead of admitting a miscalculation on his end. For some online people, the hatred is more of a defense for some hardworking and honest people in MMDA (who cannot defend themselves) that Lao has just blamed. 

And as I have said, this news is more than just a person  who "bravely drove his car to what appeared to be waist-high floods" and blamed "MMDA and everyone in sight during the incident for his mistake." If you stopped at that news, then, we should just take Zubiri's resignation from Senate simply as a way of avoiding accountability and saving his a$$. But there's so much more about the news than the actual event -- there's a lot to mention from the most basic survival principle of common sense (no other cars passing, very obvious flooded street) to core values of owning responsibility to our mistakes or being accountable to our actions. (Whether it is unethical for the media/reporter to air that is another question, of course.)

An esteemed professor said “You may be amused by the mistakes or misfortunes of others. But this does not entitle you to degrade their entire character or make conclusions about their whole person. Christopher Lao does not deserve the treatment he is getting from others on Facebook and Twitter." But I think, Mr. Lao is being victimized or bullied (online) right now not because of his mistake or misfortune, but his arrogance AFTER what happened. And as one online character posted in a news portal: "If only for that -- and his lack of personal responsibility and common sense -- he deserves all the ridicule that can be thrown at him."

:p

*What was he thinking? That he has tanzanite rings or something Green Lantern-ish that can make his car float?