Re: I'm Shocked!

[Bruce Greening <bgreeni@attglobal.net>]

Given the several fatalities a week, and a larger number of unsuccesful
attempts, the non mention is not supprising. May also be discouraged to stop
'copy cat' deaths.

Eric Cartman wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Last night (4/5/2000), there was a fatality between St Leonards and
> Artarmon. While all fatals have their tragic sides (train crew, victim's
> family etc etc), I was shocked about a couple of things:
>
> * It was only given a one paragraph section in the Friday Terrorgraph
> (regular readers of ausrail know my feelings there) and considering it was
> the North Shore, these things normally cause "outrage". I wonder if the
> Sydney Boring Herald was similar (it is too big for me, it takes up half of
> the crumple zone of a V set).
>
> * No mention of it here..............normally a train runs 2 minutes late or
> a garbled announcement sees a week's worth of threads.
>
> --
> Eric
> http://www.erk.au.com

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