Delivery boy Raymart Pisalbon muses his fate after cracking a bomb joke at a security guard.
(CDN Photo/Norman V. Mendoza)
A delivery boy was arrested for making a bomb joke to a security guard of a commercial complex in Barangay Tipolo, Mandaue City, last Friday afternoon.
SPO1 Michael Lima-Lima, desk officer of the Subangdaku Police Precinct, identified the 22-year-old delivery boy as Raymart Pisalbon, a native of Negros Oriental residing in Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City.
Lima-Lima said the security guard named Richard Escasinas, who was detailed at the Arcada 5 along MC Briones Highway in Barangay Tipolo, asked Pisalbon what he carried inside a carton he brought to the building.
Escasinas said Pisalbon told him, “Paboto ni (It’s an explosive),” which caused him to report it to the police.
Pisalbon was detained by the guard and later brought for questioning at the Subangdaku Police Precinct.
Pisalbon said he was only joking and that the box contained a battery ordered by one of the building’s tenants.
He said Escasinas allowed him to go upstairs to deliver the battery. Pisalbon said he didn’t know making bomb jokes was against the law.
Pisalbon is the seventh person to be arrested for making bomb jokes in Cebu.
Last Sept. 22, a painter named Ismael Momo was arrested by police for allegedly making a bomb joke at a security guard assigned at a university in Sanciangko Street in Cebu
City.
On Sept. 9, police arrested Jasmin Sala, a production worker from Mandaue City, for dropping a bomb joke at Robinsons Place Cebu.
Three days later, 19-year-old Carl John Sacal was arrested for allegedly making a bomb joke at City Soho Mall along B. Rodriguez Street, Cebu City.
On Sept. 14, a 15-year-old student was also taken into custody by security officers of Ayala Center Cebu for allegedly dropping a bomb joke.
The boy, however, was later released by the management of Ayala Center Cebu.
And on Sept. 15, Janelle Camacho was arrested for making a bomb joke at Gaisano Capital South along Colon Street at 10 a.m.
Four days later, Emily Baclaan was arrested for allegedly cracking a bomb joke at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.