Security - Level Up

I woke up with this message in my cellphone.
"---- ----- was just held up today. Be careful especially food deliveries late at night. Or coming home late at night."

Okay.. so from that message it's evident that my nightly activities would be more or less monitored again from now on. So much for freedom.

The beauty parlor in our barangay was held up this morning around 10 am. Four ex marines came in the salon while the women were doing their daily chores of cleaning up the place for their would-be customers. The hold up was a traumatic experience for them since the men clutched the women at their napes and began throwing them around the room. When the men tried to escape, luckily, many ka-barangays came to the victims' aid and managed to apprehend two of the men. One of the people who helped, had secured himself a big wound by his left eye since he related that the men brought guns with them. What kind, he did not mention.

When brought to the police precint the two robbers confessed that the event was not really planned and that they just hold-up any shop they may fancy on. I guess that event proved to rattle the people in our barangay and pushed the captain to further increase the security of our place.

Being an SK really does allow one to get some really juicy details and information which many people could not access. Darn, now I'm really freaking out. When my wallet was stolen, the key to our house was inside. I've informed the people in our household of the situation and they are doing what they can to replace the current lock.

Life ain't easy. Survival ain't easy. Crimes everywhere. Nobody is really safe anywhere.. (even in his own mind).