Every time we enter an establishment or a parking lot of a mall or a building, we are frisked or requested by the security personnel to open the trunk of our car for inspection, but do they really know what they are looking for? Were they really trained to identify what a bomb looks like or is it just an act routinely done to make it seem that they have followed an order? In malls, why don’t they just use metal detectors instead of frisking everyone who enters? What’s worse is they still frisk you even if they have those damn contraptions with them. I feel violated every time I enter a mall.

What happened the other day is a result of the inefficiency of those so called security personnel and the management of these establishments. The technology is there at their disposal. Why don’t they use it instead of frisking which all it really does is violate and humiliate the legitimate visitor? They invest in expensive bomb sniffing dogs, why don’t they use them to inspect the trunks instead of literally just looking inside. If you ask me, I would feel safer if a 500-thousand-peso well-trained bomb sniffing dog inspects the trunk of my car rather than a clueless security guard.