Saturday went a bit mental, it seemed that at least once
an hour we were getting “platforms and hold” calls from Wood Lane for defective
trains or handles down. In addition we
were told to go Coded Manual LEY to MIE in both directions and approach STR “with
more vigilance” because of a reported suicidal male at STR, one reason why PEDs will be a necessity if/when they start running driverless trains.
One of the calls turned out to be quite interesting;
apparently some charming gentleman started racially abusing a fellow passenger,
something there seems to have been a lot of recently. Rather than sitting back and taking it the target of the racist
diatribe punched their abuser in the face causing a certain amount of blood
loss. When the train reached MIE he
staggered off the train and then started abusing the Station Super who’d come
to help out before making his escape.
Unlike
other recent incidents of racial abuse it doesn’t seem that that anyone bothered
to film this on their mobile and stick it up on YouTube but I’ll keep an eye
out as this one would probably be quite amusing. Not that violence is the answer but some
people thoroughly deserve what they get.
Talking of racism. What happened about those 2 Hainault managers making racist comments, that were overheard by an off duty nurse? Are we allowed to talk about it here, Shrugged? Is investigation ongoing? Cheers
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard about it to be honest, I'll keep me ears open.
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