Be careful fellow Challengers it's dangerous out there...

[Going Underground]

Bloody hell did you see this in the news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6179086.stm

[tubeguru]

I wonder how much booze was involved ...

[Soup Dragon]

It seems like a strange time of the day for there to be trouble?
I could understand if it was after the pubs had kicked out.

[londongirl]

and timezones mean that even the Ashes wouldn't have been finishing up for the day then.

[Going Underground]

and timezones mean that even the Ashes wouldn't have been finishing up for the day then.

Oh blimey don't mention the cricket

[londongirl]

it's going badly isn't it? me and my dad have been watching it in the wee hours.

[Going Underground]

We did a bit better overnight and forecast heavy showers tomorrow so you never know they may regret the decision not to make us follow on....

Don't you find the timings difficult..... I am torn between staying up past midnight and watching the first session to 2am or getting up around 0530 hrs and watching the last couple of hours

Have tried combinations of both during this first test...

[londongirl]

I tend to stay up for the first half. Work starts at midday so it means I get enough sleep and can wake up and catch the mornings sports news.

[sweek]

Same incident as described here by someone who works at Earl's Court:

http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.ph ... 84&page=40 (scroll down a bit)

[Will]

It's on page 50 (http://skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php? ... tcount=988) not page 40, but otherwise, nice (if that's the right word) link.
So this was the 'earlier passenger incident' that caused some delays last week... and it's even more horrible than it first seemed in the newspapers reading that story, especially with the strange time of day at which it occured.

[zeibura]

the driver of that train should be fired just for passing that off as "a bunch of youths mucking around". i ******* hate people who make that assumption like they know anything, "all teenagers square up to each other to look cool", no. not that it has anything to do with his job, it just proves he's generally useless.

5pm is certainly not an irregular time for such incidents to occur, but perhaps in a busy place like earls court station at rush hour, you'd expect there to be more security around to prevent this kinda thing...

[tubeguru]

So the driver will be perfectly OK with having two people going under the front of his train then?

Good to see he can keep his spirits up ...

[Will]

You've got a point about the security - there usually is some kind of presence around the platforms around that sort of time, and this incident demonstrates exactly why it's needed. I meant the timing was unusual as it was out of normal hours when you would expect drink-fuelled incidents to take place... but I suppose it wasn't much after school closing time, which is arguably even more dangerous!

However, I can see the driver's point of view - maybe not all 'teenagers square up to eachother to look cool', but there's a fair amount that do, and, sad to say bits of London do do a good line in chavs, which at a quick glance up the platform is likely to have been how it looked. The fall was probably a split-second thing, not expected by anyone, and the driver left with unsufficient time to react. And I suspect, as tubeguru suggests, that hitting two people will have shaken him up more than enough already - let's face it, the incident is the fault of the twats on the platform, not him.

[Going Underground]

Don't know if anyone else heard has this story on the news ?

Apparently it was kids being chased by security bods....
Some people never grow up I guess


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6258337.stm

[geofftech]

For Graffiti 'artists' trespassing, I have zero sympathy. (God, I sound like Neil)