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Patrick Cabrera, 23, was arrested after he cracked a bomb joke at the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Quezon Avenue station on Wed morning, Aug 26.
“Police Officer 1 Mark Jason Gapol of the Kamuning police station revealed that Cabrera had told a female guard to be careful in checking his bag as a bomb inside might explode,” reports Robertzon Ramirez in The Philippine Star.
Cabrara’s bag, of course, did not contain explosives. However, he was held at the police station for violating Presidential Decree 1727, which prohibits the cracking of bomb jokes.
The law is against those “disseminating false information or willfully making threats regarding the alleged presence of bombs, explosives, incendiary devices, or any similar device or means of destruction in buildings, tenements, and other places, by word of mouth or through the use of telephones, telegraph, the mail, and other means of communication, for the purpose of causing or creating public confusion and disorder.”
The report noted: “No charges were filed against Cabrera, but he was told to do eight hours of community service at the Quezon Avenue station. He was freed after he completed the community service.”
However, the report didn’t say what sort of community service her performed.
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