15.9.08
Commuters burn train because it's late
Here's a story for anyone who's ever sat fuming on a stationary train in England. In South Africa, commuters don't take that kind of thing sitting down. Here's an extract from the New York Times article:
Commuters in suburban Pretoria set two train cars on fire after losing patience with efforts to repair a fault that had stopped traffic on the train's line, the commuter authority Metrorail said. The train had been stopped by a red signal at the Greenview station, but when technicians arrived to make repairs, some furious commuters threw stones at them, injuring two repairmen and three commuters.
So not only do they vent their frustration by burning the train, but also attack the technical guys arriving to actually fix the train! Not the cleverest thing to do if you plan to use the train again in the future. Damage to the trains was 150 million Rand - about £10m.
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