Re: And the guard on the 1655hrs ex Central Fri 8/12/2000 .......

[Marvin The Martian <choochoo72@spin.net.au>]

That guard is a moron and shouldn't be on the job.

steam3801 wrote:

> My wife was travelling on this train on Friday, in the last carriage.
> Despite the time (peak hours?) the upstairs of rear car was empty
> except for one other passenger.
>
> About Sydenham, a number of youths boarded, and began making noise in
> the rear vestibule, behind my wife. Noises such as "Do it now, go on"
> .. "Missed" ... "Try again"  {CRASH} {BANG}.
>
> When she turned around, they were having a "throw the seat out/through
> the window" competition.
>
> Quite unnerving, so she left the carriage at the next station and
> moved to another car further along. There was no time to alert the
> guard (doors open .. swoosh.. ding .. doors closed), AND she suspected
> the youths had seen her see them, and were watching out of ther
> carriage, anyway.
>
> When the train arrived at Hurstville, she went to the guard's
> compartment and mentioned what she had seen. At the same time, as he
> train terminated there, all the passengers were alighting, including
> the youths, altho they were still hanging in and around the open
> doorway to the rear car.
>
> So, what does Mr Dickhead guard do : while my wife was still speaking
> to him, giving a little bit more explanation of what she'd seen the
> youths doing, he gets on the train PA : "You boys throwing seats in
> the rear carriage, you've been reported so be careful".
>
> Needless to say, my wife was continually looking over her shoulder
> unrtil she was well and truly away from the station.
>
> steam3801
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