Brit shot on the eve of his wedding

Make sure you don't give me one of those notes out the second wallet eh

They would not believe that for one minute...First of all,your nose is too long and secondly you are far too white to be of Asian decent.
Just not credible enough!! Sorry.

Seems too suspicious to me, a couple of days before his wedding ffs...

How many "Aliens", passively drinking beer outside a local convenience store in the Philippines get shot by gun toting blokes on bikes.

From other reports: they got his wallet which contained 500 peso , less than 10 quid, even a Scotman would have handed that over.

Hope the Gentleman pulls through.

Yes, the paperwork would be your only problem.

I think most of you are advised to hand over the wallet. Most robbers in ph will allow you to take your ID with you. They are just interested with the cash.

I have heard a few instances where the victim pleaded with the robbers to leave a few peso so she/he can grab fare on the way home.

One tip I have read (maybe here) is to carry two wallets. The proper one, and one with some notes in there. Another thing is, when I worked at a bank on work experience the first lesson was that, if you are in an armed robbery situation, simply pay up. Money can be recovered, you may not be.

Me too. "After all these years..."

The loss of face thing is something that is all to easy to forget. "After all, everyone here is an English speaking Christian like me..." famous last thoughts of several people..

Yes very true. One never knows if it will happen and probably best to minimise the chance of parting with large amounts of cash.

I well remember a few people pushing in front of me at a travel exchange in the Philippines. It's the sort of thing that always gets me riled up, but I remained unusually calm and let it happen. I was annoyed, but it wasn't something I wanted to get into bother over.

I just noticed Aromulus does exactly that (the two wallet trick). Maybe he's posted similar advice here before, but that was the first thing I thought about when I read the story. I hope the victim makes a full recovery.

Indeed. Easy to lower ones guard in the heat-haze climate. I suppose having travelled there a few times and everything has gone fine doesn't necessarilly mean it will the next time.

That could scar a young street robbers dreamscape for life Dom

Two wallets seems a bit silly to me, just leave important cards and stuff in a safe place at home / hotel.

Fold and place any high value currency notes into your shirt pocket or stuff them into the small pocket on your Levis.

Hundred US dollar note is a high value note, a thousand PH peso note is not.

haha! My eldest son was born in Manila Doctors' Hospital which is an excellent if slightly old fashioned largely-Chinese hospital. The mother of my children was in labour when the hospital discovered that I was Caucasian and instantly the long nose tax swung into effect - "The baby will have a big head - we will arrange for a Caesarian section..." to which with admirable presence of mind she replied "He's left me! I can't afford it! " and a couple of hours later out came a slightly premature little boy by the normal route at a cost of P35K vs the 120K for the Caesarian. The punch line is that I was in the hospital paying over P35K in cash at the time, but being old fashioned, Manila Doctors didn't allow fathers amywhere near the delivery room, so nobody checked...!

My father in law passed away last year with pneumonia. He went through all sorts, including dialysis, and tubes forced into lungs etc. He was in his late 70s and, whilst my wife and her family have no complaints about his treatment, and whilst I am obviously not as qualified as the people administering his treatment, a part of me did wonder how ethical his treatment was. Very sad if I think about it.