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When two Filipino men sarcastically applauded a student’s off-key rendition of My Way in a Manila karaoke parlour in February 2002, a fight broke out. The two left to avoid further trouble, but the 21-year-old student ambushed and shot them outside. One was killed and the other seriously injured. In another case, Casimiro Lagugad, 25, was asked to sing My Way during a birthday party in Caloocan, a suburb of Manila, on 22 June 2003. Annoyed that he was singing out of tune, his neighbour Julio Tugas, 48, stabbed him in the neck. Lagugad was rushed to hospital, but died while being treated.