When buffaloes fly..

My driver was telling me this really funny story on our way home from work...he and his brother-in-law were driving a 10-wheeler truck at night, on their way back from delivering animal feeds to the province. As there are no streetlights in the province, it took them entirely by surprise when a young kalabaw bolted out of the tall grass by the side of the road. Unable to stop in time, they hit the poor thing and, in his own words, "--tumalsik ang kalabaw!" You have to say it in Filipino to get the utter hilarity of this, but the best I can translate it to is that the kalabaw bounced off the truck and landed a good five meters away (his estimate). It never stood a chance.

To make matters worse, they were in a province that was overrun by rebels. While they were driving away from the scene of the crime, a bunch of armed men in jeeps and on motorcycles began chasing them, presumably to make them cough up suitable reparation for the downed animal. The banditos/owners/thugs/rebels finally caught up to them on the highway and held them there until Nonoy and his brother-in-law could get in touch with the truck's owner in order to make arrangements for payment.

Who said a trucker's life was boring? :D