Carabuena escapes arrest
THE MOTORIST accused of assaulting a traffic constable of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority escaped arrest when he posted bail anew yesterday morning.
THE MOTORIST accused of assaulting a traffic constable of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority escaped arrest when he posted bail anew yesterday morning.
The first courtroom meeting between the “bully and the bullied” had to be reset, with the accused penalized for not showing up.
Direct assault raps were filed against Robert Blair Carabuena on Thursday with a Quezon City court for slapping a traffic enforcer of the Metro Manila Development Authority in August, which was caught on camera and went viral on the Internet.
Sending a message to would-be road bullies, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) yesterday began giving martial arts training to some 200 traffic enforcers, including Saturnino Fabros, the man who shot to YouTube fame for stoically taking a few slaps and taunts from a raging motorist last month.
He was not the first and surely won’t be the last. Saturnino Fabros shot to YouTube fame last month for standing up to a Volvo-driving bully, but he was only the latest in a long list of traffic aides who had been taunted or assaulted while trying to impose order on the mean streets of Metro Manila.
Despite the highly-publicized attack by Philip Morris executive Robert Blair Carabuena against an officer of the Metro Manila Development Authority, many Filipinos still think that traffic enforcers should not be allowed to carry guns.
The Philip Morris executive who assaulted a Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) traffic enforcer earlier this month may lose his driver’s license pending results of an investigation by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) on the incident.
When he finally surfaced, Robert Blair Carabuena looked the part of a corporate executive, but in his hand was a note of contrition meant to redeem an image jeered and wildly caricatured on cyberspace.
Robert Blair Carabuena, the man who bullied a Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) traffic enforcer, was rushed to an undisclosed hospital after he was cursed and doused with bottled mineral water at the prosecutor’s office on Thursday, MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino said in an interview.
After the praises, aid also keeps pouring in for the traffic enforcer who kept his cool when bullied by a motorist recently.
All Saturnino Fabros could think of when the Volvo-driving manager of a tobacco firm came down from his car and attacked him were his young, motherless daughters.
The “bully” has been suspended from work while the bullied is up for a promotion.
The traffic enforcer who was slapped by a Philip Morris executive has been promoted for exhibiting the right behavior even under duress.
