In today's pandemic and almost all people can no longer eat so it is really pitiful that people work in different ways just to survive and for the sake of their family. They just ignored the fact that they had trampled on other people. They did not even think it was dangerous and they could be imprisoned if they were caught by the police. They are called fake or pranksters. Viral now about such an incident that makes everyone just a prank so that they can just make money to survive. Prank orders from delivery food apps are nothing new, but they’re highlighted at a time when many people are just struggling to earn a livelihood.
Last April 3, SheMae Ilano posted on Facebook a photo of a Grab delivery rider with several boxes of Angel’s Pizza and said that some 20 food delivery riders went to her neighbor to deliver P15,000 worth of food. A total of 10 boxes of pizzas, boxes of lechon meals and Popeye’s meal packs arrived after a ruthless prankster using her neighbor’s name and address placed the order using different mobile phone numbers. Thankfully, Ilano and some of her neighbors and relatives bought most of them out of pity to these speechless riders who advanced the payment for the food. I feel really sorry for older brother Rider, he was trembling at what was going to happen as he handed over the boxes of pizzas. Total of 20 riders fooled by whoever you are chest pain. They were pitiful, weeping, dumbfounded and trembling. I can't sleep in this incident, I hope they don't come last time,” she said. Ilano’s post had over 7,000 shares and over 17,000 angry and sad reactions.
Something similar happened last December, when 16 FoodPanda delivery riders were pranked into delivering food to one address. The riders would need to advance the money and risk life and limb to deliver the food orders at the shortest possible time to make a decent living, even during these precarious times. Seriously, who does this? And why? Also, wasn’t something recently passed about fake bookings? Increasing the penalties? At this point, many of those who feel Grab and any other delivery company that still allow COD to non-verified accounts with no online payment method, are partly to blame,” Deakin said in his post. On Sunday, Lester Polillo Macion posted a photo that went viral about another prank call that led the local fire department of San Juan to a wild goose chase sending fire trucks to his neighborhood waking up and scaring everyone in the area. The post has since gotten 45,000 shares and has been picked up by a number of publications. Not only that were precious and limited government resources wasted, if there was a real emergency they would not have been able to properly respond to the scene.
Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año has said that that prank calls are punishable under PD 1727 and those found guilty may be punished by imprisonment of not more than five years or a fine of not more than P40,000 at the discretion of the court. Based on the data gathered by the Emergency 911 National Office, from January to June 2019, about 15.29% of the total calls received are either fraudulent, hoax or prank calls. Año added that they will not hesitate to go after prank and fraudulent callers of the emergency hotline as “such acts that disrupt the delivery of immediate response in times of emergency are punishable under the law." He appealed to the public to dial the Emergency 911 Hotline for legitimate emergency calls only and stop using the hotline for prank and fraudulent calls. “If we catch you, you will be punished. Some of our countrymen need actual help and they may not get it in time because of these prank calls,” he said. Google, which is known for making highly creative and elaborate but totally harmless pranks has stopped this tradition for the second year in a row since the pandemic started, according to a report by business insiders.
So, lesson learned that it is really necessary for us to be vigilant in the events of such prank calls and should not resort to such events because even if they rationale that because of the hardships of life they will only hurt and step the right of others. We will not tolerate them such that according to the law that ends does not justify the means. That means we will not tolerate their misrepresentation in other mistakes. Even the intention is good but the act is evil that is also called ignorance of law excuses no one can also be applied there. We suppose to look it that we can’t excuse a poor outcome by saying you went about it badly. It was false, though—that’s a perfectly reasonable assessment of failure. Still evil action is bad and still no excuse on it…
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