Surviving New Year's Eve

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Shit, I thought that report was pretty bad. You're saying it's much worse?

Bruce, it sounds bad to you that 3 people died and 600 (no doubt an estimate) were injured in some way, shape or form over a period of 10 days in a city of THREE MILLION? Babe, that would have happened REGARDLESS in Manila over 10 days. Another part of the statistics which were not mentioned is the huge fire in the squatter slums during that time which left 100,000 homeless and wandering the streets looking for another place to squat. A stunning 40% of the residents of Manila is technically homeless in the best of times, so without any shelter over their heads during Christmas week, they contributed significantly to the mayhem.