RATS in the Customs

 “Meat Traders Air Gripe” — Headline. I haven’t read the meat of the news story. So I wonder what’s their beef?

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 A common-law wife is suing her partner for hitting her with a number of porcelain plates. That’s a sign of plato-nic relationship.

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 A drug courier has been killed in a southern town. The execution was done sans fanfare. Unlike the execution of the three drug couriers in China.

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 Pinoys arrested abroad and eventually executed for drug trafficking should not immediately be tagged OFWs because, for all we know, they could be professional drug mules. The integrity of our OFWs, the main source of our wealth, must be protected.

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 Alfredo Palmiery, president of the Federated Association of Manpower Exporters, Inc. (FAME), has been reported as saying that calling “OFW” the three Pinoys recently executed in China for drug trafficking is an insult to the millions of Filipinos working abroad.

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 There is one more Pinoy awaiting lethal injection in China’s death row. Still for drug trafficking. While the almighty Chinese People’s Supreme Court is still reviewing his case — meaning the eleventh hour has not yet come — the PHL government should start moving to try to save his life. Now na!

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 The transport strike last March 31 fizzled out before it could do some harm to the riding public. The strikers didn’t call it transport strike but “transport caravan.” The Cebuano commuters must’ve told the drivers: “Ilara mi tits.”

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 The Bureau of Customs has a group called RATS. Its duty is to “Run After The Smugglers.” This RATS is feared by smugglers. The joke making the rounds is: If the RATS is away the cats will play.

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 Trivia: A survey of 5,210 adults conducted by the makers of pain reliever Excedrin ranked professions whose members are most likely to get headaches on the job: 1. Accountants, 2. Bus Drivers; 3, Librarians; 4. Nurses, 5. Waiters; 6 Homemakers. — From Reader’s Digest

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