Tamana. Enough. LTO has been running shakedowns in Barrio Barretto and Baloy and Cali beaches for years. Their favorite tickets are motorists without seatbelts and cyclists without helmets. Tickets are easily avoided with P500 to P1000 payoff. One of the maddening things is that one vehicle is allowed to pass with no windshield, no brakelights, bald tires, trailing a smoke stream but wearing a seatbelt. These are the people who should be apprehended and ticketed and removed from the roads. Instead it is much easier to ticket the person in a well tended vehicle but not wearing a seatbelt who forks over the P1000 to avoid the trip to the LTO office. President Aquino is trying to put a stop to corruption in the country. These LTO clowns are a big part of the problem. Let's put them on trial along with the Chief Justice.
Fasten your seatbelts...
Have you
been shaken down by the police or LTO in Olongapo?
Until it has been established that this corruption has ended, tourism in Barrio Barretto will be curtailed. No tourist expects to be harrassed while on vacation to enjoy oneself. I will impose on the US Embassy to issue a travelers warning against Barrio Barretto and beaches.
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