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Pilchard123:
So you had him hauled up for being an arse?

pwhodges:
What makes you think that could even be a starter?

Pilchard123:
The guy threw your stuff off the train when it was clear that you were trying to comply with the requirements (what are you supposed to do with your bike? Leave it blocking the corridor while you write the label?), then didn't give you reasonable time to either recover it or leave the train so you could wait for the next one with it. I got the impression that he didn't even warn you about it (maybe that's just how I read it).

Surely that warrants at least a stern talking-to from someone higher up.

pwhodges:
Probably.  But what would it actually have achieved?  He had the defence that the bike was literally in breach of the regulations, because it should already have had the label on; discussing it with me could have delayed the train slightly on one of the tightest scheduled pieces of railway track in the world; I was never going to meet him again, and he would have taken his bad temper at being reported out on half a dozen other passengers (of course, maybe that's what happened to me).

hedgie:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 29 Jan 2015, 04:19 ---
True, but in many places they've learned to disguise the racism that causes opposition to mass transit. Sometimes the alternate excuses they come up with are hilarious. When I was a teenager in Charlotte NC, there was a guy running for city council who opposed public transit on the grounds that it was "unbiblical". Though he could never point out exactly which verse in Leviticus forbade it.

--- End quote ---

Unbiblical?  I wonder if the guy has ever worn mixed fibres.  According to Leviticus, that's a stoning offence.

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