Good thing, I am NOT the President of this country.
If I were the President, my very first decree could had been to criminalize the violation of the No Blowing of Horns, most especially when passing by places of worship (churches, mosques, chapels, etc.), hospitals, and schools (or any education institution).
I can’t help but wonder why most of Filipino drivers can’t follow this simple instruction (traffic sign): NO BLOWING OF HORNS. Maybe, perhaps even the traffic officers didn’t know that not following the traffic sign is actually a violation? I made a quick survey on the traffic officers at Merville, Parañaque and at the Sales Bridge in Villamor Air Base, and all of them (06 of them to be precise) do not know that there is such a violation (after I had shown them the traffic sign above) and to make matters worst, they don’t even know how much the penalty the violator will pay if caught!
If I am not mistaken, violating the NO BLOWING OF HORNS will require one to pay the penalty of just around PHP150. Why not raise it to something like PHP5,000 plus suspension of Driver’s License for 12 months; if not, community service at the Philippine School for the Deaf & Blind (so that they may appreciate how being silent means).
Being both a church servant and a professor, it pisses me off when a motorist honks their horns in front of a church (especially when a mass or a prayer service is ongoing) or an educational institution (poor students).
As one who has had to stand watch during hospital confinements, I bristle at the sound of horns around hospital perimeters. I don’t care if it’s a high-tech hospital with soundproof rooms or a government hospital – you do not blow your horn if there is a sign that says you should not.
I’m the lucky one – our “suki” hospital is pretty much soundproof. But the idea of horns in a less providentially equipped medical facility is like fingernails on chalk.