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Originally Posted by GraySpirit
ItDontMeanAThing,
As for a murder per day, that's probably low.
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It's not the murder rate that bothers me, or the crime rate in general. It's the reason people are murdered. In the typical Filipino revenge killing one man kills another over a long simmering dispute. It's so obviously an emotional act as the killer rarely takes any effort to not get caught. These murders often happen in front of witnesses. If they didn't, the police ask the victims friends who had a grudge against him. They often find the murder at home with the bloody clothes in a pile on the floor.
Murdering a foreigner is rare. But when it happens it's almost always an inside job. The live in help and the wife sleep right through it. Stab a guy 30 times and he's gonna make some noise, but the police believe the stories that the other house occupants didn't hear a thing.
The last murder I read about was a man who was running a collateral loan business. Hand him your motorcycle and title and he gives you some money, for example. One customer later decided that he couldn't pay him back and wanted his bike back, so he murdered the lender. Murders against foreigners are rarely solved, probably because everyone who mattered thought he got what he deserved. The foreigner was really ignorant to get into the loan business.
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