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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Margaux Ortiz, Metro
DRUG addicts and thieves are a lot scarier than ghosts for the lone barangay tanod looking after the Makati City Cemetery.
"I've only encountered ghosts in my dreams," said Gabriel Arriesgado, 45, as he sits on top of a tomb in-
side the 2.5-hectare cemetery, which he jokingly calls "Barangay Kampo Santo."
"But I risk my life over a lot of law breakers like robbers and drug dependents who use the cemetery as a drug den or a shortcut to freedom," said Arriesgado in Filipino.
Arriesgado had been a barangay tanod (village watchman) in Makati's Barangay Kasilawan for some 20 years when he was offered the post at the cemetery eight years ago amid scary warnings from older barangay officials.