Sniffle XLXIV: Morning Commute Edition
A man in Perth gets his leg wedged between the train and the platform, and ERRBODY rushes to help with their own brute strength (rather than shutting the rail system down all day until men in hi-viz jackets, hardhats and walkie-talkies arrive to dismantle the thing at enormous public cost, as one would imagine happening here, or anywhere else).
“He seemed to be a bit sheepish, because right where he fell was the ‘mind the gap’ writing.”
Adorable.
August 7th, 2014 at 3:22 am
They first tried getting the passengers to move to the other side. The problem with that is that these trains have a self-leveling suspension to keep the train upright under imbalanced loads.
Brisbane has the same trains and we (yes, I worked for the company that builds these) once had a problem with the self-leveling suspension; it allowed the carriage to roll too much. It didn’t take long for the schoolboys to work out that if they ran from side to side as a team they could get that sucker to rock like crazy. Fun though that was we had to fix the thing.