Chasing Baguio Cops

As we were driving on Leonard Wood Road yesterday we saw an unusual sight, Baguio Police on an All Terrain Vehicle. Nico was driving and he says, “Hey, look they’re on an ATV! Now they can follow crooks everywhere!”

I took a shot with my camera and Nico says, “Want me to follow them?”

Chasing the cops was long and arduous, having had a light blue VW 1303S overtake our 800cc Atoz and blocking the view, and then having finally passed the bug on CP Romulo Drive near The Mansion, while a golden Toyota Vios was tailgating us.

Thanks to Nico’s skillful maneuvering, I was able to take a shot of the young Baguio policemen as we passed them.

“Click!”

Then checked the LCD screen to see what I took and check this out –

The young members of the Baguio police force — I love them!

A Cute Story About Young Baguio Cops

When I had decided to live in Baguio permanently in 1997, my mom was kinda upset at the news and asked me to return one of the the family cars assign to me to Manila (by the way, before that she told me to sell my cool 1973 Corolla SR Sprinter because “I could drive the family car anyway”). So for the first few months of living here, I was … on horseback.

One day, I had to withdraw money from the ATM and the closest one to where I lived was the Banco De Oro branch on Luneta Hill. Henry Sy had bought that prime property where Pines Hotel used to stand, but they had not developed it yet so the was no SM City Baguio there yet.

I knew that the only place in Baguio City where horses were not allowed was Session Road, and not realizing that the road between the Loakan rotonda (where the old Camp John Hay Main Gate was) and the Session Road rotonda was actually still Session Road (Upper), I rode my horse Jupiter from Military Cut-off to Luneta Hill.

Upon reaching the BDO branch, some young and good looking Baguio policemen were waving their arms wildly and shouting, “Ma’am, bawal ang kabayo sa Session Road (horses are not allowed on Session Road)!”

I said, “But I’m not going to Session, I just have to withdraw money from the ATM.”

Then I saw that there was nowhere I could tether my horse. And that hungry horse, based on experience, if let loose was just going to run back home without a rider because that’s where his food was.

To my relief, the cops asked shyly, “Ma’am puedeng pasakay (Can we ride your horse)?”

“Of course!”

So they rode Jupiter up and down and around Luneta Hill while I withdrew the money and that solved all my problems!

They even helped me mount him again as Jupiter was a tall one, almost 16 hands, and we all parted ways, smiling and laughing.

I have a few other stories about the police in the City of Pines, mostly good by the way, and I reserve those for future posts.

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