Re: Highly accurate radio comment

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

"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.
>
> He also made the comment that guards look out for
> signals etc, right again.
> Although he did not say, he may have been trying to
> advise the caller that railway guards are not there to
> get their brains mashed by thugs, thats what *security
> guards* are for.
>
> It is a pretty sad world these days when folks who use
> trains are confronted by shithead bully boys.!
>
> ....Tell

I disagree with your reasons for agreeing with me.  Hadley was wrong, as far
as I know, in just about everything he said on the show.  I was being
sarcastic.

Al