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Nidge2
PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:14 am 
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grandad wrote:
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Why do you have to go all serious when someone makes a comment? When I post the hangman noose for rapists are you going to say, "you can't use that it'll burn his neck".

Rapists may well deserve the hangmans noose. A train driver does not deserve to be traumatised by the stupid actions of car drivers.



The comment was aimed at the car driver not a train driver.
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grandad
PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:31 am 
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Nidge2 wrote:
grandad wrote:
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Why do you have to go all serious when someone makes a comment? When I post the hangman noose for rapists are you going to say, "you can't use that it'll burn his neck".

Rapists may well deserve the hangmans noose. A train driver does not deserve to be traumatised by the stupid actions of car drivers.



The comment was aimed at the car driver not a train driver.

The comment was made with no thought for the train driver whatsoever.

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Nidge2
PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:02 am 
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The comment was made with no thought for the train driver whatsoever.


But it's not going to happen is it? Stop twisting things trying to become holier than tho.
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roythebus
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As a former train driver, I can say it's not a pleasant experience when some twunt runs a level crossing. My son's the fleet engineer for Southern Railway and at the moment he says they have over 100 drivers "off the track", many of whom have had actual fatalities or very near misses. the poor chap who hit a mother and daughter at Riddlesdown will never drive a train again.
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sasha
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My son's the fleet engineer for Southern Railway and at the moment he says they have over 100 drivers "off the track", many of whom have had actual fatalities or very near misses.

I presume they're all on full/sick pay or had huge compensation payments for the trauma, wonder how many would be 'off the track' if that wasn't the case :wink:
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grandad
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sasha wrote:
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My son's the fleet engineer for Southern Railway and at the moment he says they have over 100 drivers "off the track", many of whom have had actual fatalities or very near misses.

I presume they're all on full/sick pay or had huge compensation payments for the trauma, wonder how many would be 'off the track' if that wasn't the case :wink:

I take it that you have been in such a situation yourself then?

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