We asked, you answered: The Tulfo-Barretto/Santiago brawlby Ivy Jean Vibar, ABS-CBNnews.comPosted at 05/07/2012 2:06 PM | Updated as of 05/07/2012 2:06 PMMANILA, Philippines -- The brawl at NAIA 3 between journalist Ramon Tulfo and the party of Claudine Barretto and Raymart Santiago eclipsed the resumption of the Corona impeachment trial as this mornings most-talked about local news issue, with netizens scouring news sites for updates and social media for on-the-scene exclusives.The popularity of both parties led netizens to have strong opinions on the issue. Some blamed Tulfo for going paparazzi and trying to take photos of the actors speaking with Cebu Pacific personnel, while some said it was the celebrity couples fault for being overly aggressive.Some, however, chose to laugh at the hoopla surrounding the issue, saying there are more important things people and the media should be attending to.Tulfo was trying to later exploit the situation, Santiago was trying to prevent him from doing so, said @migylieminogue on Twitter.However, @softpinkishlips tweeted, It doesnt mean naman na ok iyong actions ni Claudine. Kaya lang wala sanang gulo kung walang nakialam.Some, such as @docintubate, said they thought the issue could have been handled better. I think they have made a mountain out of a molehill. Too much emotions and melodrama. Life is simple.@harchel added that the issue only blew up because marami ang nakialam.Santiago, Barretto file charges vs Mon TulfoABS-CBNnews.comPosted at 05/09/2012 5:47 PM | Updated as of 05/09/2012 9:05 PM

Barretto and Santiago file case vs Mon Tulfo before Pasay City RTC.

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) Celebrity couple Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto filed charges of physical injuries and child abuse against columnist Mon Tulfo on Wednesday afternoon.The couple claims Tulfo attacked them first, following an argument over photos that the columnist took while Barretto was berating an airline employee.The celebrity couple also said their child was traumatized after witnessing the brawl at the airport on Sunday.Barretto appeared before the Pasay City RTCand walked usinga cane. She claimed she was still in pain from injuries she suffered after Tulfo allegedly kicked her during the brawl.Santiago, meantime, revealed he has gotten a bodyguard after seeing suspicious vehicles near their home."Hindi ko sinasabi na sila yun. Well may nagsabi kasi yung neighbor namin, at yung van na yun may pangalan pa," he said.Santiago and Barretto are still considering whether they should sue Tulfos brothers Erwin, Ben and Raffy for grave threats they made on air.While the celebrity couple is serious about suing Tulfo, the latter is just laughing off the charges against him.Tulfo had said he did not start the fight and he should not be blamed for the child's trauma."Parang napaka-stupido naman na kaso yan, sinaktan ko ba yung mga bata?" he said. Report by Jenny Reyes, ABS-CBN NewsRaymart Santiago, Mon Tulfo in fist fightABS-CBNnews.comPosted at 05/06/2012 2:52 PM | Updated as of 05/09/2012 12:03 AM

Tulfo, Barretto show bruises after altercation. Photo by Jenny Reyes for ABS-CBNnews.com

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) Actor Raymart Santiago and journalist Mon Tulfo got into a fist fight Sunday afternoon at the arrival area of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3.In an interview with dzMM, Tulfo said he just arrived from Davao onboard a Cebu Pacific flight when he saw a familiar face at the arrival area reprimanding a flight attendant.Nasa arrival area na ako, palabas na ako ng arrival area tapos may napansin akong magandang babae. Namumukhaan ko, maganda siya eh. Hindi ko naman siya nakilala. Pinagalitan ang ground stewardess ng Cebu Pacific, he said.Tulfo said he later on recognized that it was Santiagos wife, actress Claudine Barretto, who was scolding the airport staff.Nag-sympathize ako sa kanya dahil sabi ko, tingnan mo nga naman itong Cebu Pacific bakit naman ganooon. Marami na kasing insidente itong Cebu Pacific naging inefficient sa cargo ng mga pasahero. Kaya sabi ko buti nga, he said.Tulfo said he then decided to take a photo of Barretto through his camera when he heard that Barretto was already cursing the stewardess.Noong nakita ko na minumura na niya ang pobreng babae na mangiyak-ngiyak, ipatatanggal daw niya sa trabaho, kinunan ko ng litrato ng cellphone. Gusto ko sanang sabihin na Cool ka lang, iyan namang babae, wala namang kasalanang personal sa iyo bakit mo naman minumura, he said.Tulfo, however, said he was caught off guard after Santiago approached him and was forcefully trying to grab his cellphone.Noong nilagay ko ang cellphone ko sa vest ko... nakita nung si Raymart Santiago. Pilit niyang kinukuha ang cellphone ko. Sabi niya, Bakit ka kumukuha? Magpapakilala sana ako kaya lang nung pilit na niyang kinukuha ang cellphone ko, tinulak ko siya sabi ko wala kang karapatan na kunin ang cellphone ko. Doon nag-umpisa ang kaguluhan, he said.Tulfo said several people approached him and a punch landed on his face thats why he decided to fight back.Habang sinasangga ko ang mga suntok nila dahil marami sila, minumura pa ako. Ako na ang binalingan ni Claudine Barretto ng galit niya. Minumura mura na ako. Tinamaan ako eh. Noong tinamaan ako sa may mata, nagdilim na ang paningin ko, he said.Tulfo said it took a while before airport authorities responded to stop the brawl.Meantime, Barretto denied that it was her husband who started the brawl. In an interview with radio dzMM, Barretto said it is also not true that she cursed at the airport staff.(For the full story about Claudine and Raymart's side, clickhere.)Airport authorities are currently conducting an investigation over the incident.2 Cebu Pacific arrival agents accuse Claudine Baretto of verbal abuseByJerry E. EsplanadaPhilippine Daily InquirerMay 7, 2012 | 7:09 pm224484255

CLAUDINE BarrettoMANILA, PhilippinesTwo Cebu Pacific passenger arrival agents have told the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) police they were verbally assaulted on Sunday by actress Claudine Barretto after the airline off-loaded her groups bags from a midday flight from Caticlan, the gateway to Boracay, the popular tourist destination in Aklan province.Cid Charisse Bocboc and Cristina Anne Ilagan made the disclosure in a written statement to the police intelligence and investigation department (PIID) of NAIA.At this writing, the PIID had yet to furnish media a copy of their statement.But Lieutenant Demetrio Sison, PIID officer in charge, confirmed to the INQUIRER that Bocboc and Ilagan had indeed made such claim. He declined to provide other details about their complaint.The PIID had summoned the Cebu Pacific ground staff to shed light on their alleged verbal tussle with Barreto.This paper tried but failed to reach Bocboc and Ilagan for comment on the incident. Both were off duty on Monday, according to Candice Alabanza Iyog, Cebu Pacific vice president for marketing and distribution.When interviewed, Iyog recalled that on Sunday, Barretos group took Cebu Pacific flight 5J 896, which left Caticlan at 10:20 a.m. The flight arrived at NAIA Terminal 3 at 11:35 a.m.Cebu Pacific, however, had to off-load some luggage from that flight due to Caticlan airports weight limit requirements, which the airline strictly implements for safety reasons, she explained.Iyog said that due to the short runway and the prevailing wind conditions at Caticlan, the plane can only carry a certain amount of weight, prompting our ground staff to off-load some bags. A total of 11 bags were off-loaded from that flight. Nine of them belonged to Barretos group (which also included her husband, actor Raymart Santiago), she said.But the same bags were promptly loaded on another Manila-bound flightCebu Pacific flight 5J 340which left Kalibo airport at 12:40 p.m. on the same day. That flight arrived here at 1:40 p.m. All off-loaded bags were delivered to their owners homes a few hours later, she said.According to Iyog, Bocboc and Ilagan did apologize to (Barreto and party) for what happened and promptly attended to their concerns at the baggage claim area of NAIA Terminal 3.When our arrival agents learned that their bags had been off-loaded in Caticlan, they offered them what we call first need compensation, which is P1,000 for every bag left behind. Thats (standard operating procedure). We also offered to refund their excess baggage worth P4,300, she said.Iyog pointed out we have done what were supposed to do. However, (Santiago and Barreto) have yet to respond to our compensation offers.But we are in constant communication with the Santiagos, she added.Meanwhile, Manila International Airport Authority general manager Jose Angel Honrado on Monday indicated they would not conduct a formal inquiry into the brawl involving INQUIRER columnist Ramon Tulfo and Santiago.In a phone interview, he admitted that the MIAA was not competent to determine and were not mandated to determine the guilty party in (Sundays) incident at NAIA Terminal 3.Lets wait for the courts to decide whos at fault after the two sides have filed their respective complaints, Honrado told the INQUIRER.Tulfo has complained to the MIAA head about the airports security personnels failure to pacify those involved in the rumble.Siya (Santiago) ang suntok nang suntok. Nasasakal na ako. Bat nangyari yun eh may guards at pulis pa? Noong dinadala ako sa presinto ng pulis, pilit nilang kinukuha ang cell phone ko Hindi sila umawat noong minumura ako ni Claudine (Santiago kept punching. I was being choked. How did that happen when there were guards and police? When I was being brought to the police precinct they were forcibly taking my cellphone), the columnist lamented in a TV interview.The other day, Sison said no arrests were made by the NAIA police because they had two sets of complainants and were still trying to find out who really started the fight.On Monday, Hondrado admitted there was no CCTV at the baggage claim area of NAIA Terminal 3 that could have captured the brawl.Takinaka, the Japanese firm that built the controversial airport, has yet to install the equipment, said Honrado.Meanwhile, a 59-second cellular phone footage of the brawl has come out on Facebook and You Tube which showed that it was Tulfo who took a beating, contrary to claims by Barreto and Santiago.In an ABS-CBN TV interview, Santiago blamed Cebu Pacifics off-loading of their bags as the root cause of their troubles.Actually, ang punot-dulo nito yung mga bag na nawala (Actually, the root of this were the missing luggage), he said as he also denied Tulfos allegation that he tried to grab his cell phone.

10. It's better to be a silent control freak than a loud bitch, especially if you're a celebrity.The price of fame includes being fair game for anyone who wants to comment on or record what you do when you're out in public. Public places would include airports and other spots where anyone can take photos or videos of you having a fit. To avoid a luggage-related meltdown, hand-carry everything, says InterAksyon.com columnist Jessica Zafra in"How Not To Be in an Airport Altercation:" She writes, "Delayed or lost baggage is a frequent problem. If you can manage it, travel light and bring only cabin luggage. Yes, hand-carry everything." Zafra also points out two things: How much luggage do you need to go to the beach anyway?" and "Put your valuables and your medication in your cabin luggage." Our tip: Buy a plane ticket for your luggage. Treat it like another passenger. They won't offload it unless it's being unruly.- See more at: http://www.spot.ph/newsfeatures/51038/top-10-things-we-learned-from-the-claudine-barretto--raymart-santiago-vs-mon-tulfo-debacle#sthash.iGRu2Qo0.dpuf

It must be a cold day in hell because, for the first time ever, this website sympathizes with Inquirer columnistMon Tulfo.Not because of anything he said but because of what happened to him: Held down and beaten by two celebrities and their man-tourage at an airport.

Also, too much pinkThe fight apparently began when Tulfo, being both curious and at one time in his life vaguely a journalist, took out his mobile phone to take pictures of actress Claudine Barretto complaining about misplaced luggage.According to the Inquirer, where Tulfo works:Tulfo pulled out his mobile phone and took photos of the scene, which he said would form part of a column he intended to write, when a man from the actress group approached him.The man, whom he later recognized as Barrettos husband, demanded to get my phone which I used in taking shots. Tulfo said he refused to surrender his phone.Santiago continued to force Tulfo to give up his phone when several men joined the actor, according to the columnist. Tulfo said he could not recall who threw the first punch because he was being ganged up [on].Tulfo says he was blind-sided but Barrett and her husband Raymart Santiago say Tulfo started the fight:In an interview with Inquirer Entertainment and posted on INQUIRER.net after the incident, Santiago said that when he approached Tulfo to ask him about his cellphone video, the columnist suddenly punched and kicked him and his wife.Why would I hit an older man in front of my children? I wasnt brought up by my parents that way, he explained.As we have no way of knowing how the Santiagos brought Raymart up, we will have to take that at face value. We will also have to note, however, that not being brought up that way has as much weight as a legal defense as saying It wasnt me.Tulfos reputation as a hot-headed potty mouth works against him in this case, as was seen on the first reactions on Twitter: They were pretty much about how Tulfo is less of a man for getting into a fight with a girl (and her man-tourage). But this was before a video of the incident began circulating on the Internet:

Barretto insists, on ABS-CBNNews.com, that Tulfo kicked her and kicked her first:Barretto said Tulfo also kicked her twicewhen she confronted him about why he punched her husband.Lumapit ako sabi ko Anong problema mo? Bakit ka nanununtok? Tapos bigla na lang humarap siya sa akin, tinadyakan niya ako ng dalawang beses sa hita tapos tinulak ako sa may counter ng sobrang lakas, she said.Tulfo admits he may have kicked Barretto:While trying to fight his way out,Tulfo said Barretto, who was nearby, repeatedly cursed at him. He said he might have hit the actress with a kick as he tried to fight back.In that video, someone, presumably Santiago keeps saying Hindi pa ako tapos!(Im not yet done!). And that, more than anything, makes whatever defense that Tulfo allegedly started the fight invalid.Lets say Tulfo did start the fight. Santiago and his man-tourage would have been justified in hitting back, but only to a certain extent. Knock him out, maybe. Or push him away and then form a protective circle around Barretto until security arrived. Engaging in a brawl does not count as self defense.According to theRevised Penal Code, Santiago and his man-tourage can claim self defense in the face of unlawful aggression, but that hinges on the reasonable necessity of the means employed to prevent or repel it and the lack of sufficient provocation on the part of the person defending himself.*A choke hold while loudly proclaiming you are not yet done does not count as reasonable necessity in any case except in the Octagon. Tulfo was on the ground and, although he was fighting back, was no longer a threat to anything except his tough-guy image.** Security was also on the way by the time the video was taken, so Santiago, his pal in pink, and Barretto could haveshould havebacked off already.Also, Barretto is seen taking part in the brawl herself, which means shes as much a part of it as their bad-ass friend in pink whom Tulfo actually hits with a kick. Despite being held in a choke hold. And being an old man. Good job, Turtle.More important than a celebrity couple beating up someone who is vaguely a journalist is a celebrity subjecting ordinary citizens to verbal abuse:Barretto allegedly started cursing at Cebu Pacific ground staff Cid Charisse Bocboc and Kristina Anne Ilagan after she found out that their luggagehad been left behind.Aside from not having their luggage, Barretto also got mad because their flight was delayed, Bocboc told airport authorities.Bocboc said she asked Barrettofor the baggage claim stub and description of their luggages for proper tracing, but Barretto reportedly continued her tongue-lashing of the ground crew in front of other arriving passengers.Ilagan, on the other hand, told authorities she explained to Barretto that due to weight limitations and for safety reason, their luggages had to be flown to Kalibo Airport, Aklan and that these would soon be brought to Manila.Despite their explanations, Ilagan and Bocboc, in their handwritten statements to airport authorities, said Barretto continued to verbally abuse them.We get that flying on Cebu Pacific can be a headache sometimes, but that is no reason to take it out on the ground crew in Manila for luggage left behind in Aklan. In the first place, they had nothing to do with it, being in Manila. And also, they are just wage slaves like the rest of us who arent celebrities and do not deserve that sort of treatment at all. Especially not for a problem that was already being addressed: the luggage was already being brought over to Manila.One must also note that the luggage was supposedly left behind due to weight limitations and for safety reason (sic) so Barretto and Santiago may have had something to do with that. Maybe they packed too much stuff? Even if they didnt, it bears thinking about that had Cebu Pacific loaded the luggage on the plane, the argument would not have happened. Possibly because the plane crashed into the sea.*An Act Revising the Penal Code and Other Penal Laws [REVISED PENAL CODE], Act No.3815, art.11 (1932)** I mean, hes in pink even.

1. May 7, 2012wayThis is a one-sided article. I would understand if this article dealt only with the couples behaviour, however to touched on thier luggage whether they brought much stuff is not an issue here, after all they paid for the extra charge.Who will not get iritated? the couple should have informed that their luggage was not loaded and needed to be left behind due to safety reason. Baretto by all means has the right to demand and get mad.Be fair. See both sides first.2. May 7, 2012onetamadSure. The couple has every right to get mad. That right does not translate to the right to verbally abuse anyone, though. Are you saying the supposed verbal abuse was justified?Why is that? There are proper channels, proper ways, to register a complaint.Failon said that too on DZMM this morning: that the incisdent would not have happened had Cebu Pacific not madea mistake. That, I feel, is dishonest because Santiago, Barretto, pink guy, and Tulfo are all adults and should be accountable for their actions.3. May 7, 2012Lady DadaDear way,Your comment seems to willfully ignore whats really being discussed: who did the sapaking in this sapakan. But in the spirit of being a good sport, Ill address your issues.I guess Barretto & Santiago paid the extra charge for their baggage, but that just means they were also aware their baggage was overweight. From that logic, its easy to deduce that overweight baggage will overload a plane, and that overloading a plane is never a good idea. It is, therefore, within reason that their luggage was not on the same plane. Hell, it was already on its way to Manila even as Barretto was cussing out the ground crew.Barrettos right to demand and get mad can be likened to the right to take a wet shit in a Rustans grocery aisle. You can do it, yeah, but people are going to take notice. They might even take a picture or two. You cant begrudge them that, can you?4. May 7, 2012MarchieGet mad at Cebu Pacific, yes. At the CebPac people in Caticlan who made the decision to not load their baggage but did not inform them of this, yes. But to the two poor ladies in Manila, definitely NO. Bocboc and Ilagan did absolutely nothing wrong here. They simply relayed what took place in Caticlan. Claudine Baretto is very wrong in berating them. She has the right to be upset with the news, but she shouldnt have poured out her anger to the two ladies. What did she expect them to do, snap their fingers and make her luggage appear instantly? There was nothing else to do but wait for the luggage to arrive, as CebPac has said that it was being transported to Manila and will be delivered to their home. And for goodness sake, millions of trips around the world get delayed every now and then. Clearly, you ought to work on your patience, Claudine. I too have been a victim of hundreds of delayed flights, bus trips and train trips. I got upset, but never did I ever berated the staff, because I know they are not to be blamed. Bakit, si Bocboc at Ilagan ba ang ngmaneho ng plane from Caticlan to Manila at nagpadelay ng flight? Duh!Why would he hit an older man in front of his children, Raymart said? Well, for the very same reason that Claudine berated the CebPac staff in front of their kids. They were both upset and lost their tempers, thats why they did that. Many parents in the world, even the best ones, have, at some point of their lives, done regrettable things in front of their kids after losing their tempers. Therefore, it is not impossible at all, Raymart, that you would do such a thing.5. May 7, 2012wayDear Lady Dada, for the sake of a meaningful discussion and for academic purposes, lets prove our point:First of all, to quote It is, therefore, within reason that their luggage was not on the same plane. i havent encounter the same thing, while i also have my luggage excess several times , i still have my luggage in the same flight. (oh well maybe, for some reason, if the airplane really could not accommodate it, the airline maybe has the responsibility to inform their affected passenger that their baggage has to be carried by another aircraft), thats what we call COURTESY. Second, while the couple has by all means the right to get mad, let me further say that yes, one tamad is correct that to verbally abuse the ground attendant is not right. (but who knows what happened?)6. May 7, 2012wayIn addition Lady Dada, i guess to better point out what is being discussed here, prior to discussing the who did the sapaking in the sapakan, its good to address first the cause before the effect. he who is the cause of the cuase is the cause of the evil cause.7. May 7, 2012Lady DadaWay, youre saying its CebuPacs fault (the cause of the cause being CebuPacs supposed failure to inform B&S about their luggages whereabouts) that Claudine Barretto got mad and made a scene?You are telling me, way, that Cebu Pacific should have been courteous enough to inform Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto that CebuPacs plane was incapable of carrying Santiago & Barrettos overweight baggage? Okay. I guess Id consider that a responsibility, not courtesy. You know what courtesy is, though? Not yelling at ground crew who have no power over the location of your baggage.What exactly is our issue here?8. May 7, 2012wayThe issue? the issue here in not about their excess luggage, and what aircraft will carry it. i guess focus on the airlines fault (flight of origin) by not informing the couple that their luggage will be delayed. you see, what happenend next was the result of that fault, and the rest is history. everyone else has thier own fault after that first fault, and the rest were victims of circumstance. i hope you see that.9. May 7, 2012wayWAY here in not siding anyone, baretto couple? tulfo? Nadah! just to point out, and not to ignore the real cause. Airlines responsibility? YES, thats the issue here.10. May 7, 2012Lady DadaI do see that. I do see how easy it is to shake the collective Internet fist at CebuPac big faceless company fucking up! rather than hold Claudine Barretto, Raymart Santiago, and for that matter Mon Tulfo accountable for their actions.It is too easy to scowl at a system that fails, e.g. CebuPacs baggage capacities. Its much harder to remind readers how lovely it is when human beings act like human beings, i.e. not yelling at other people, not throwing punches at old men, not throwing punches at young men.11. May 7, 2012ayeeIf they dont want delays, if they want to be treated like prince and princess and if they wish not to be seen they should have hired a private jet and crews thats gonna be at their beck and call12. May 7, 2012wayi have said that the couple has by all means the right to get mad, but that emotion shouldnt be a passport as well to humiliate and berate anyone. Who wants that? whats the point? for whatever feeling you have rightnow Lady Dada, i totally get your point that you really is totaly against the way couple handled the situation (and thats personal).alone? humans are inherently evil thats why they are guided with ethical and moral standards to do what is right and wrong. that is why laws and punishment were crafted overtime to punish the evil doers and to protect the innocent.To conclude, whatever THIER actions were, they should be accountable for it esp to thier victims. Way here deals only with the Legal consequence of ones act after the other.13. May 7, 2012Dada LonglegsMon Tulfo is the one who should have bodyguards, not those pricks-who-were-not-brought-up-by-their-parents-that-way.14. May 7, 2012wsmJust want to add my two cents worth in this discussion as I used to work for an airline. Airlines know very well the loading capacity of their aircrafts. When there is a heavy load of cargo (w/c incidentally is also paid), the number of passengers in the cabin should be less than full capacity in order to maintain a safe load for an aircraft to fly. What some GREEDY businessmen/airline do is overbook their flights and accept all cargoes and passengers and get paid for it without thinking that situations like this can happen just because they dont think of anything except PROFIT. When passengers complain, it shouldnt be taken personally because it is not. When we were in training school with the airline i used to work for, we were always reminded that when a passenger complains, it is not about us, but about the issue on hand. The complainant only sees the uniform of the company we represent and for that person we are all ONE and the SAME. This is why answering the queries and complaints in a well informed manner in order to pacify the complainant should always be a priority in training Airline personnels. As one of our instructors used to say, LOOKING WITHOUT SEEING AND LISTENING WITHOUT HEARING should never be forgotten.15. May 7, 2012Little FlowerI dont know why all the comments here are saying its okay to verbally abused the 2 Cebu Pacific employees. Thats not appropriate for a public figures such as Claudine & Raymart. They put themselves in the mass therefore they should act professional, they can get mad/upset but immaturity actions and being uneducated to handle the left behind luggage to the extend aggressively verbally attacked 2 employees is no logic. Attacking Ramon Tulfo, was also unnecessary, he has the right to say no to Raymart for asking his phone captures, it was a public place, hes a journalist, its his story. Raymart also have the right to ask why Ramon was taking captures, but not aggressively attacking him for not giving it away and ganging up on him. I do not like the idea Claudine & Raymart act as a victim on all their interviews and the reasons are all in-congruent.16. May 7, 2012Lady DadaAw, Little Flower, we dont think its right to verbally abuse anybody! You and I see eye to eye on this.17. May 8, 2012pink28I think the couple are overtaken by their status. Even though they are celebrities, verbally abusing anyone should not be part of their script and even beating up a journalist who just wanted to share an incident which he has been writing for some time in his news column. Its a good thing that someone captured the video because even though its not the whole story, it still captured the most important part of the story- Mon was ganged up unreasonably. He is a journalist what do you expect from him? Just to sit and watch a celebrity abuse a worker. And anyone with a brain will not put important things such as medicines in their check-in baggage.18. May 8, 2012Mimi vaguely a journalist love itBut Its luggage, dear, never luggages19. May 8, 2012onetamadDear Mimi,Oh, dear. You are right.20. May 8, 2012John DoeDami naman dito Grammar Police.. :p Kahit ano pa rason diyan you dont gang up on a 68years old fellow.. Pehriyod.. :p21. May 9, 2012The CatI dont get why you folks are focusing on the luggage issue here. You cant blame the airline for all this madness just because it was supposedly the root of Barrettos outburst. The issue here is that they all acted like savages. And Raymarts claim of not hitting an older man in front of his children coz he wasnt brought up by his parents that way is obviously bullshit coz he obviously did just that, with the special participation of his wife of course. He may or may not have thrown the first punch but he still threw a punch. Judging from the video, this is not a case of self defense, its an overkill.22. May 9, 2012The CatOne more thing, Way, I think your argument is ridiculous. Specifically this:what happenend (sic) next was the result of that fault, and the rest is history. everyone else has thier (sic) own fault after that first fault, and the rest were victims of circumstance.Not everything can be lumped into such reasoning, otherwise, everyone will just be victims of circumstance, and culpability is just a myth. If we follow your argument, then why dont we dig deeper into that cause and effect logic youre trying to push? What if prior to the luggage incident, Claudine was bitten by a cat, which caused her to act all catty before heading to the counter? Can we say then that the cat is really the cause of the evil cause? God help us for blaming the cat. Victims of circumstance would be those people at the airport who had to suffer as a result of this brawl (like getting stepped on by the security trying to break the fight while youre merely walking by), not those people who chose to directly engage in the fight. Yes, they chose it given that theyre humans who have the ability to choose their actions. Its a shame they made a bad one.Your line, he who is the cause of the cuase (sic) is the cause of the evil cause is pretty similar to Raymarts why would I hit an older man in front of my children? I wasnt brought up by my parents that way. It might have sounded smart and nice in your heads but when you let it out without a proper spine to back it up, its just empty and stupid. Sorry, but that can only fool a fool.One last thing, Way here deals only with the Legal consequence of ones act after the other -How so?! And did you just refer to yourself as a third person? You are killing The Cat.. I mean me. Please dont answer. I just had to.(Sorry onetamad, I couldnt help it. Ill shut up now.)23. May 10, 2012wayThe Cat, definitley, i wont argue with your point, peoples opinion vary. some deals it personally, thats why judgment becomes clouded. Though funny, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion, nevertheless, opinions are never accepted in the court of law. Peace24. May 11, 2012faustina santosim irritated when raymart et al say that tulfo started the fight and tries to prove it by saying the guy has already admitted the same previously but denies it now. what tulfo has said is that when raymart and pals started demanding his phone, he shoved him, turned his back to leave but alas was ganged upon at that point. thats when the brawl started, wherein he admittedly managed some defensive shoving or parrying. He did say that at the start of the brawl he was able to make maniobra (maneuvers) in order to defend himself but dropped his guard when he saw that security personnel were coming. Even raymart recalls it was an open fist that hit him. thats a parry, or a defensive shove my friend. I dont think tulfo would be so reckless as to start a brawl when he knows he is outnumbered, but who wouldnt be put on the extreme defensive when you realize that you are seconds from a kuyugan? i must admit my sympathies fell on tulfo. the guy reminds me of my late dad, a real tigasin but a compassionate crusader for the underdog. yeah, and my dad in life was a big tulfo fan too.25. May 11, 2012faustina santosi know its also in bad taste for me to add this right here but, you know when tulfo mused that all this mess is the universes way of exposing stuff we need to know and correct? well, i thought of the word karma because i could still recall one day back in 2004-2005 being at a caterers meeting at abs-cbn where all attending reps of various caterers to the set of the teleserye marina were all complaining about young but then already foul-mouthed and ill-tempered claudine barretto. there was even a lola entrepreneur present who recounted how she almost fainted from the curses thrown at her by the actress just because she didnt like the food!26. May 12, 2012lancealmekianlovely post. the only thing i dont like about it is the fact that its written in a language not native to filipinos (you can argue it is, i cant care less but you probably wont if you turn on the tv and tune in to early morning kid shows english programs are getting translated to tagalog now, thus is the story of the death of it as a native language of this country). the reason i feel bad that your blog is in english? simple. only a few people would understand the things you wrote. thats why i choose to use tagalog when commenting on anything that has to do with this fight.nevertheless, one hell of a writeup. props for seeing things the way theyre supposed to be seen.27. May 12, 2012chinchin taberuMy 2 cents. The open hand punch allegedly thrown by Tulfo is called Atemi, a striking technique in Aikido (of which i heard old Mon has a black belt in). It is used to create an opening for a throw or to create distance between the aikidoka and the attacker/s. In less gentle Aikido schools(like the one Im in), it is taught that if its absolutely necessary to make the first move then one ought to give a money shot to the eyes or throat to, again, create an opening or distance. Mr. Tulfo was sensible enough to not blind a man-bitch in self-defense, apparently.Though I often find his opinions disagreeable, the guy sure can bust some ass. I cant imagine myself fighting 3 (or more?) assailants and not getting knocked out cold. Makes me wonder what would have happened if he was 10 younger.