The cop got off his motorcycle and had the driver get off the truck and go to the rear of the truck and close the door.
"They get all this way and they get off the truck and put their hands up and say, 'I was in Isis.' One of them said to me that he doesn't care if we jail him for life.
We got off the truck at Barangay 88, a neighborhood called Costa Brava.
He then showed us some footage of a group of people getting off a truck, each receiving a rifle butt to the spine as a good-bye present from their trafficker.
Getting on — getting off.
At each stop, a few passengers got off the large tap-tap truck, named for the sound of passengers hitting the metal side to signal they were ready to be dropped off.
I got off the truck, feeling emboldened to slip into a vast territory of migration that also held, for me, great moral uncertainty.
"Trucks were just pouring in here looking to get off the road," said the manager, Bruce Reingold.
At the moment that the Ben Suc villagers got off the trucks at Phu Loi, the military plan that had started with the attack on Ben Suc and had proceeded precisely on schedule came to an end.
"You've inspired me to get off my trucking ass," one bearded man said.
