SIne Totoo features Wish Ko Lang's Good Samaritans

One Saturday evening, my husband, son and I watched Howie Severino's Sine Totoo on GMA7. It featured two Good Samaritans circa 2007, whom GMA's other show, Wish Ko Lang, discovered. One of the Good Samaritans was a nurse, the other a man with lung problems. The set-up was like this.

Pekto of Bubble Gang and Bahay Mo Ba 'To fame was guised as a man with elephantiasis, a condition where one's lower extremities (in Pekto's case, just one) become really big. He was put atop a wooden platform with wheels and positioned at the bottom of the stairs of one busy street in Metro Manila. Pekto would wave people into helping him get across to the other side of the stairs, but he was largely ignored. The nurse though, spoke to him and advised him to go to PCSO for help. She sad she couldn't lift Pekto up the stairs but was reassuring somehow. Meanwhile, there was this other man, likely a TB patient per the medicines he was shown to be drinking regularly in a later footage (Rifampicin) who paid heed to Pekto's pleas. He said, "Tutulungan sana kita pero kaka-opera lang sa akin." Unlike the nurse though, this man in true Good Samaritan fashion, asked two passersby to assist Pekto and gave them P20 each to do so. IF you recall, the Good Samaritan paid the people in the inn to take care of the man he saw lying on the street. He himself couldn't stay on to see to the man but took an active hand to see to the welfare of the man in the street.

Note that the man who paid the two younger men to help Pekto lived in a shanty. He didn't have enough money to buy all the medicines he needed yet he unselfishly shelled out P40 to help a complete stranger. Between him and the nurse, I think he was the better Samaritan. True, kind words are always welcome but Pekto needed help at that point. Still, I guess she was worth commending because in the end, the show gave her some gifts and the kind man, a Good Samaritan store to own.