Cebu-based vloggers recognized as Boss LB and Boy Banat are dealing with expenses for the stunts they pulled off alongside highways which endangered the lives of individuals round them. | Screenshots from BOSS LB and Boy Banat’s FB movies
CEBU CITY, Philippines – For pulling off stunts that brought on public inconvenience and posed security dangers, two Cebu-based vloggers are actually dealing with legal expenses.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Wilbert Parilla, chief of the Freeway Patrol Group in Central Visayas (HPG-7), revealed on Thursday, April 24, that expenses have been filed in opposition to the 2 people on the Provincial Prosecutor’s Workplace.
The 2 content material creators had been recognized as “Boy Banat” and “Boss LB.”
Boy Banat was first summoned to the HPG-7 workplace after dressing up as Son Goku and performing stunts along with his associates on an enormous bike alongside the Cebu Transcentral Freeway in October 2024.
A number of months after apologizing and promising to not repeat the offense, Boy Banat as soon as once more gained consideration—this time for dancing on high of a public utility car.
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In the meantime, Boss LB confronted backlash final month after he cosplayed as a snail and crawled on the freeway in Consolacion city, northern Cebu. His video rapidly gained over 18,700 reactions and 15,000 shares, nevertheless it additionally sparked public outrage as a result of inconvenience and potential hazard it posed.
In line with Parilla, each males will face authorized penalties for the stunts they carried out, which may have brought on accidents.
He additionally disclosed that authorities are monitoring different social media customers who could equally be placing lives in danger whereas filming content material in public.
Just lately, HPG-7 was known as out by their larger workplace as a result of excessive variety of unreported minor street accidents alongside the Transcentral Freeway.
Parilla stated most of those accidents had been self-inflicted and concerned motorists trying stunts in hopes of being featured on the pages of content material creators stationed in sure components of the world.
These content material creators sometimes take images and movies of passing motorists, encouraging dangerous habits from drivers in search of consideration.
To curb this harmful pattern, HPG-7 personnel met with the mayor of Balamban and different native officers final month.
The intervention led to the deployment of law enforcement officials in particular areas alongside the freeway which are thought of hotspots for stunt performers, notably throughout weekends.
Moreover, the Division of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will probably be putting in rumble strips on the street to compel motorists to decelerate.
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Parilla stated they’re repeatedly monitoring on-line content material to determine people who’re behaving recklessly solely for the aim of making viral materials.
He defined that they are going to be figuring out the identities of those people and launching investigations. These probes could ultimately result in a advice for the issuance of a present trigger order from the Land Transportation Workplace (LTO).
Police can even suggest potential sanctions, such because the suspension or cancellation of the driving force’s license.
Parilla added that the native authorities unit of Balamban is at the moment reviewing additional actions they’ll take to implement a extra long-term resolution to the difficulty.
Following the case of Boy Banat—who reportedly gained extra followers after apologizing on the HPG-7 workplace—authorities have determined to pursue authorized motion straight as an alternative of summoning erring content material creators, as doing so may solely give them further publicity.
“Dili na nato ipatawag kutob sa atong makita nga dunay mga violations na nahimo. So atoang imbestigador will simply merely conduct investigation and if proof warrants for a submitting of a legal offense so atong i-file ang kaso,” stated Parilla.
(We’ll now not summon them as soon as we see that violations have been dedicated. So our investigator will merely conduct an investigation, and if the proof warrants the submitting of a legal offense, then we are going to proceed to file the case.)
The HPG-7 chief warned all content material creators in opposition to comparable disruptive actions and urged them to assume responsibly on how their content material would have an effect on the day by day lives of the individuals round them.
“Wala man ta mobawal nga magbuhat silag content material. However what we are attempting to emphasise is ang security sa katawhan. Ang atoa gusto na ipahibalo nila nga they should assume og maayo nga dili sila maka-hassle, dili sila makahatag og kadaot or disgrasya sa atoang katawhan,” stated Parilla.
(We’re not prohibiting them from creating content material. However what we’re attempting to emphasise is the security of the general public. What we would like is for them to grasp that they want to think twice and make sure that they don’t trigger inconvenience, hurt, or accidents to the individuals.)
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