Joy Adalia
Kid Kulafu is a movie based on the life of Pinoy champ Manny Pacquiao. Many of the boxer’s fans have flocked to the cinemas to watch their idol in the movie, mere days before his actual fight against Floyd Mayweather, Jr. But Kid Kulafu has also gone viral in a different situation – because of the angry confrontation between a UP Diliman graduate and an SM Cinema ticket seller.
According to the Filipino Scribe, those who witnessed the incident said that the problem began when celebrity stylist and accessory-designer Dennis Celestial was given tickets to “Kid Kulafu” instead of “Day of the Mummy” by SM Cinema San Lazaro employee Aldin Barral.
Upon learning about the mistake, Celestial went back to the ticket booth and began berating Barral, saying he was an “incompetent worker”. Embarrassed because there were plenty of customers lining up at the ticket booth, Barral reportedly left the booth and told Celestial he did not have the right to shout at him.
The angry Celestial complained to the management of SM San Lazaro who, in turn, asked Barral to face the customer in the office. Feeling apprehensive about the confrontation, Barral turned on his cellphone camera to take a video of the incident.
It was at this point that the furious Celestial could be seen shouting at Barral. When the ticket seller commented that his mother did not send him to school just so a customer like Celestial would shame him in such a way, the latter flared up and remarked that he graduated from UP Diliman. Celestial, then, repeatedly asked Barral where he went to school; though the young man did not have a chance to reply as the mall’s security officers moved him away from the furious customer at that point.
Had he been given the chance, Barral would have probably told Celestial that he graduated from BS Nursing at Our Lady of Fatima University; though he had to work as ticket booth seller to help his family and send his younger siblings to school, reports Pinoy History.
Barral’s angry sibling shared the video on Facebook. As was expected, it quickly went viral. Most, if not all, netizens sided with the ticket seller for although he was clearly at fault for giving Celestial the wrong tickets, there was no reason for the customer to shame him.
Although people are taking Barral’s side, he and the video uploader could face serious cybercrime cases because it is against the law to upload a video that could ruin the reputation of a person, even if he or she was at fault.
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