Thanks for sharing this Tiffy. I’m supposed to go there tonight but now having 2nd thoughts about it. =(

Go! Tonight is tamer, I think! I’ll be there!

It was just like what happened in 2004. I think it was Friday the 13th as well. Tinumba yung fence tapos may nasaksak habang tumutugtog yung Cheese. Oh well. Tama ka, Tiffy. Tonight will be tamer. Rakrakan last night, I think.

tiff, please post this on facebook too. gosh, sana nga tamer tonight.

kakagaling ko lang sa Sunken Garden to buy myself a ticket for tonight’s concert. dumaan muna ako dito sa SC para mag-online saglit.

tonight, mas marami nang security forces na naka-deploy sa paligid ng fair grounds. mas marami nang SSB at UP Police unlike last night na undermanned sila. also, mas marami nang Quezon City Police sa lugar bukod sa nandoon na din ang heavily-armed QC SWAT team at isang naka-stand by na fire truck.

friday the 13th kasi kaya nangyre yun…hehe…

waaahhh.. ano ba ang reason ng barging in?

Security.

grabeee. i was there but i didn’t realize (although i kinda had an idea) that it was that serious. imagine the riot if they manage to successfully remove the walls ,scary. sana sa fall out boy nalang sila nanggulo! haha joke

p.s. now i know why the sunken garden sinks. )

Whoa… Good thing you weren’t there when the riot happened! Also, that was really nice of Bamboo. :3 I wish I could meet him IRL~

exag exag exag i almost went there! buti nalang tinamad na ko at hindi na tumuloy. scary!!

WTF those morons talaga. I so wish we can have jj/orc wiper or something. Coffee Bean-ish much?

I was in UP fair last night with my 9yo son and husband, With tickets in hand, we waited in line to get in from 9pm until 11pm. At 11PM we decided we’ve had enough of waiting and decided to watch the concert from afar. Mahina ang security last night and I only saw just one ambulance. Whoever organized the concert had obviously failed to consider that there will always be these young punk groups who will cause havoc. If you have the balls to call in the best rock groups, you have to be ready for a mini-summer slam in your hands. It was very disappointing. Everyone who had tickets and couldn’t get in were rooting for these punks! I hope next time, they organize rock concerts better. I feel bad for those who were hurt, but I put the blame on the organizers because they should have been responsible.

Thumbbook: I agree with you. The organizers should have thought it through. But I don’t think it was the lack of security — there were just too many people. As it is, a huge amount of money (more than before) was already used for security. The USC hired private security, and had two police forces on standby (UP police and QC-something police). I can just imagine the number of security forces you need to handle that crowd.

The organizers of the event (separate from the USC) should have stopped producing tickets. They should have stopped letting people in at some point. Or they should have arranged for their own security aside from the standard USC security.

As one of the organizers, I assure you that we didn’t reprint more tickets, contrary to what others claim. Actually, we still have unsold tickets because we stopped selling them at the ticket booth at around 10 pm due to the sheer volume of the people inside the fair grounds.

Really? Wow. My sources tell me that you guys didn’t stop selling tickets. If that’s the case, I apologize for my comment and retract what I said. I hope that you’ll forgive me for saying so.

as posted by “Bahay Kubo” on PEX:

except for RAMPANT incidents of theft and, again, the unruly and completely barbaric behavior of the “jumping jologs”, who hurled empty mineral bottles at each other and even threw some towards the direction of the non-JJ crowd, that almost caused the concert to be cancelled again, the last night of the 2009 UP Fair, hosted by the USC, was, in my opinion, generally peaceful. the big bands- among them include Kamikazee (backed up by Parokya ni Edgar’s Chito Miranda and two members from the band Quezon), Moonstar 88, Silent Sanctuary, Typecast and 6 Cycle Mind- came and almost everyone had a good time. there were fewer people who attended last night compared to the tens of thousands who came for “Loverage” the night before.

obviously, after the violence that happened Friday night, security at the venue was beefed up. more UP police members, SSBs, Glocke private security guards, bouncers and Quezon City Police officers were deployed at the area (i talked to some of them and they told me that most of them were not deployed for “Loverage”, the night when security was compromised by the “jumping jologs”; they were only told to go back to their respective assignments at the venue right after the whole incident happened). there were also heavily armed members of the Quezon City Police SWAT team who were on stand by just in case violence and anarchy erupt again. one fire truck and one ambulance from the Quezon City Fire Department were also on stand by for crowd dispersal and medical evacuation respectively.

sadly, this year is, to me, the WORST UP fair in history. in my ten years as a member of the UP community, this year is the first time that i have seen violence and anarchy of such magnitude, perpetrated by NON-UP PEOPLE who do not have any respect for authority and lacked good conduct, during an occasion wherein the members and friends of the UP community should be celebrating the rich and colorful history, traditions and culture of the University. i just could not believe that one of the most awaited events at the University of the Philippines will be sabotaged by “jumping jologs” and other brigands who are not even part of the University community itself but absolutely have no respect for rules and the UP community.

video of the violence during “Loverage” as posted on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIgxe6L4qk

http://www9.gmanews.tv/largevideo/latest/36610/Riot-erupts-in-pre-Valentine%27s-Day-Fair-at-UP-Diliman

The UPD Police Office injured from last Friday night’s fair needs blood donors. Any type is ok. For those who’re willing please go to Quirino Memorial Medical Center along Katipunan, Surgical ICU, and say that you’ll donate for Ramon Montecito. Your help urgently needed. Please pass.

This is fucked up. o_O

Thanks for the edits, Levi!

grabe, the last time i experienced something like this was two or three years ago, i think. it was pretty much like this. i wonder if it is possible to set up a pseudo-fair where what we are actually going to do is to entrap these JJs in sunken garden, then from there, maybe we could just.. i don’t know. anything.

deym.

gone are the days when the UP Fair is all about peace, love and rock and roll.

There were unconfirmed reports that UP Diliman Police Officer Sgt. Ramon Montecito already passed away.

Two of my friends went to QMMC last night to donate blood for Sgt. Montecito. The doctor told them that though he’s not recovering, he is not really in a very bad condition.
We are still waiting for further updates about his present well-being….

Wait what? He passed away? I hope not!

I really want to donate but I just donated last month! This is horrible.

We were not able to “break the curse” :C

The JJ’s had gone too far this time. Shame on the supposedly more decent folks who cheered on them. Siguro di sana lumaki ang ulo ng mga JJ kung hindi nagcheer ang mga non-JJ’s sa labas.

I know this sounds a bit too discriminatory, pero mas masaya sana ang UP Fair pag banned ang mga JJ dun.

Just out in the TV Patrol… He’s still alive, but still not awake….

Just out in TV Patrol… He’s still alive, but still not awake….

By the way, it’s sgt. Monterico, not montecito.

Okay! You just made me heave a huge sigh of relief! Thank you!

Thanks for the report, John. We still need to pray for Sgt. Monterico. The brave member of the UP Diliman Police Force needs our support and prayers.

Still, after what the JJs and other brigands to us and our friends that evening, we should NEVER let them give another chance to hijack UP events, customs and traditions up to a point that they would impose their hooliganism on us.

GMA News: Saksi: Riot-injured UP police officer conscious after head operation

http://www.gmanews.tv/video/36733/Saksi-Riot-injured-UP-police-officer-conscious-after-head-operation

Hi! Just noticed that this blog entry was referenced on Manolo Quezon’s blog (The Daily Dose) for details about the incident.

I reiterate my opinion of those people, as expressed on your other blog account: They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. I don’t know if it’s still true that UP students are partially subsidized by taxpayer money (as government institutions are), but if so, and if found, they should be held accountable. Let them subsidize the hospital costs of that poor security guard, if nothing else!

I’m not sure if we are talking about the same thing, Mr. Starshadow Rivaulx, but as far as I know, the JJ’s are not students of UP. Most of these Jumping Jologs are residents of the nearby slums.

Perhaps the worst that some UP students did was encourage the raging JJ’s. Some partly blame the student organizers for lack of security.

I can’t imagine UP students leading a riot just because they can’t get into a rock concert.

Isa lang ang sigurado sa ngayon and that is the fact that OUTSIDERS (jumping jologs and drunken tambays), not UP people, who started the whole melee that ruined the UP fair. The only fault that UP people had that time was the lapse in security at the venue during the whole UP Fair.

I hope someone can correct Manolo Quezon because his blog might create this false picture that it was UP people, not outsider, who started the riot when the truth is that members and friends of the UP community were the true victims of the hooliganism of the brigands from the slums and ghettos.

@Paul

Thank you for the clarification re JJ’s.

I will continue to hold a dim view of anyone, UP student or otherwise, who might have encouraged the perps.