Drag racers take over street in Banawa

THIS ROAD IS OURS. While travelling along Salvador Street, barangay Banawa, late one night, a cabbie and his passenger were startled to see a man wearing a white polo waving them to the other side of the road. After they passed the man they saw several other similarly-dressed men motioning them to move along.

These men were not policemen, but they were behaving like policemen as they commandeered half of the four-lane road for what seemed to be a drag race.

The men not only had uniforms, they also had lights and apparently set up the finish line half a kilometer away, heedless of traffic still coming in from both sides of the street.

CABBIE CRIPPLED AFTER COLLISION WITH DRAG RACER. The cabbie told his passenger one of his friends was hit by a speeding drag racer in Lapu-Lapu City.

The car slammed into the driver's side of his friend's taxi at full speed, crumpling the door and crippling his friend's left leg and arm. The drag racer, who escaped serious injury, was let off with a slap on the wrist after paying for the cabbie's medical expenses.

Many suspected he was well-off, thus was able to silence many wagging tongues with money.