Re: Highly accurate radio comment

["Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Tell" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> | "Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> | >
> | > OK, not going to go into the reasons for it, but the other day (Monday)
> I was
> | > driving around listening to Ray Hadley doing the John Laws show (damn
> car with
> | > only AM radio).  Someone rang up complaining about the guards (both
> CityRail
> | > and the Blue M&Ms) on an InterUrban train not stopping a fight and not
> kicking
> | > the fighters off the train at 3am.  Hadley's reply was along the lines
> of "It
> | > was an InterUrban train, so it wasn't a CityRail train (IIRC).  I know
> that
> | > the CityRail trains have guards on them after a certain time, whether
> it's the
> | > same for the InterUrbans, I don't know."
> | >
> | > Good to see he knows how the trains are operated before he opens his
> mouth to
> | > a large public audience.
> |
> |
> |
> | The same show is relayed up here in Alice Springs and I
> | happened to catch that.  I agree, nice to hear a radio
> | commentator who has his facts right.
>
> I thought Al was being sarcastic as Hadley was actually wrong.

The prize goes to Tezza.*

> | He also made the comment that guards look out for
> | signals etc, right again.
>
> They do?

I would imagine it would be hard when your window is a)up to 160-odd metres
from the signal, b) facing the wrong direction, and c) there's passengers to
watch getting on and off the train.

Al























































*I'm sure I'll think of a suitable prize one day.