AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!

Paul Corfield wrote:
[...]

That's what the corporate news services are for, innit?
It sells advertising space, this stuff does.

I'll have a go...

Poor maintenance caused by cheap-arsed for-profit management,
who did a cost accounting and figured their bonuses would
be bigger if they cheaped out, since they can always blame
any incidents on the poor, downtrodden workers.

Management too cheap to install proper fencing.
see above.

Management too cheap for proper security.
See above.

How about...
Someone in management bought shares short, and now
needs to drive stock down to make a profit. As only
management cares about profit, whereas all unions only
care about the comfort and safety of the passengers, it
had to be management.

Poor maintenance due to management decisions.
See above.

Hmm. Tough. Can we blame the management of the company
that runs the goods train?

At your service, etc.

 

Management may be responsible in some of those examples. In a number of
others I would suggest that it would be unreasonable for anyone to spend
the money / employ the resources necessary to ensure 24-7 perfection and
"zero risk" (whatever that is). All you would do is make railways far
too expensive to build, maintain and operate thus resulting in their
closure and a transfer of travellers onto less safe modes. Still we can
wait for the hysterical reaction when we know what did happen.

 

And he'd only bollix them up if he did. He knows that, we know that.
It's a bit more than MZ technology, you know.

<Thinks>

Well, maybe not.

 

Really? I've been out playing with the outfit and suchlike today, and I've
heard nothing of this train thing. Has it been on the television?

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."

 

platypus wrote

No it was on a railway line in Yorkshire or somewhere. Well off it if
you want to be pedantic about it.

 

Ah. Train, eh. Not as safe as an outfit.

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

OI! Don't get us Cumbrians mixed up with bloody southerners.

 

DR coughed up:

Impossible, Cumbrians have 12 fingers and webbed toes.

--
Dan L

http://thebikeshed.spaces.live.com/
1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

"Rattled around like a pea in a can and shouting, '****, ****, ****'", I
think was what he meant to say.

 

DR wrote

Cumbrians are easy to spot, you all glow in the dark.

 

Closer to Preston if you want to be REALLY pedantic


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Wogs begin at Strensham.

--
platypus

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative."