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AN
airport police lieutenant on Thursday filed a complaint
against a female visitor at the airport, whose bulldog
attacked two janitors.
The dog,
walked on a leash by the owner, also attempted to attack
Celso Justada, driver of Roy Cimatu, special ambassador
to the Middle East, who was onboard an incoming flight.
AIRPORT official Manny
Rodriguez, right, tries to convince the woman dog
owner to put her canine back into her car so as not to
scare away arriving passengers.
RECTO MERCENE
Airport
police Lt. Jaime Estrella reported the matter to Head
Executive Assistant Robert Uy that at about 9:45 p.m.
Wednesday, their appeal for the still unidentified woman
to confine her vicious dog inside the car fell on deaf
ears.
After
one policeman failed in his effort to convince her to
put the dog inside the car, Estrella accosted the woman
and pleaded with her, for safety reasons, to put the dog
back in her car.
“She
refused and instead flashed a diplomatic card and
arrogantly demanded to be shown an order prohibiting
dogs at the airport,” Estrella said.
He said
that she appeared to be waiting for an arriving
passenger at the curbside.
When
hundreds of airplane passengers streamed out of the
arrival area, many of them were scared by the sight of a
bulldog on a leash and avoided the dog.
Again,
Estrella said, airport authorities asked the woman to
confine the dog in her car because it was scaring the
passengers.
This
time, the woman hurled invectives at the airport police
officer, saying “f… you” several times, prompting
Estrella to call the attention of the duty action
office, Manny Rodriguez.
The
soft-spoken Rodriguez likewise received a tongue-lashing
from the woman, demanding to be shown an order
prohibiting dogs at the airport.
“I don’t
have to show my ID to anybody,” she said.
Eventually, the woman left the arrival area’s curbside
and stayed at the secondary road that is reserved for
well-wishers. She was later seen welcoming an elderly
male passenger. They boarded an Isuzu Rodeo van with
license plate number 24266 that was illegally parked at
the adjacent lounge reserved for hotel cars.
Estrella
requested that the matter be brought before the
attention of the embassy concerned to identify the woman
and recommended that the airport authorities should
immediately issue a memorandum restricting dogs,
especially the vicious ones, from the airport zone. |
