A party-list lawmaker was temporarily held at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Friday after cracking a bomb joke at the check-in area.
APEC party-list Sergio Dagooc was checking in for a Cagayan de Oro bound flight when he told an airline agent that aside from clothes there was also a bomb inside his bag.
“Tinanong siya kung anong lamang ng bag na ‘yon. Ang sabi ni Congressman Dagooc, damit. So nag-follow-up question si Ma’am Lansang, ‘Other than that, ano pa ang laman?’ So ‘yon, sabi ni congressman, ‘Bomba.’ Tagalog po,” Rappler quoted the airline representative as saying.
The lawmaker was released from custody because of a constitutional provision that the lawmakers should be ‘privileged from arrest’ if the offense is punishable by not more than 6 years in prison.
