Dangerous Load

Still on one of my Ilocos trips, I chanced upon this abominable contraption of a vehicle, passenger and cargo combination! At first I thought ‘how nice of manong to be sitting up there’. But look again, any sudden step on the brakes, that pile of corrugated sheets could go sliding directly to the napes of both driver and front passenger. God Forbid!

Oh well, the way people use transportation in these our times…


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