With three Metro Manila schools getting fake bomb threats last month, this bill is simply timely.
“Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo is pushing for the approval of House Bill 4030 that would impose a 12-year imprisonment and a PHP5-million fine on anyone proven to be behind a bomb threat,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
The report pointed out that the current penalties for bomb threat pranksters under Presidential Decree 1727, which was created in 1980, imposes only a five-year imprisonment and a PHP40,000 fine.
But we have to ask: Are these pranksters ever caught?
Photo by Robert Viñas of the Presidential Communications Operations Office, Office of the President (WikiCommons)
