New Year, Pinoy Style

A firecracker victim with facial injuries sustained by a wayward rocket.

Two weeks after the devastation of Sendong that hit Northern Mindanao, we ushered in 2012. 

I thought that after what had happened down south, we would end the year a bit more solemn and peaceful due to the numerous call of various organizations to donate and help our countrymen instead of spending hundreds or thousands of pesos for polluting the air with toxic particles and finger cutting fireworks.  

Despite calls and warnings to stay away from firecrackers and not to discharge their firearms indiscriminately. This was what transpired that night at the JRMMC emergency room which shows how hard headed some people really are. 

Not to mention those who are so intoxicated to the point of not knowing what happened and where they are, involved in vehicular accidents, brawls and even to the point of shooting and killing somebody right infront of the hospital where media was covering the injured coming in after the revelry.

They say it is way to drive away the bad luck, but with about 800 or so reported injuries this is sheer madness and stupidity. Are we vying for an award or record of some sort for having the most people injured or killed for ushering in the new year?

An intoxicated shooting victim during a drinking spree.

A young girl holding her left hand hit with a stray bullet.

Vehicular accident, intoxicated.

Intoxicated, involved in a brawl on new year's eve.

Intoxicated, left eye injured by firecracker.

"picolo" victim.