"Joe Patrick" wrote in message ...
There's something in the Daily Mail today about First Great Eastern
attempting to combat vandalism at unstaffed stations by playing classical
music through the pa system. And it supposedly works.....

At Rochford i overheard some kids asking where that music was coming from so
they could smash the speakers.
Its wartime music

On the topic of vandalism to trains, a West Yorkshire Metro Train 158
had to cover Transpennine services today because kids that had nothing
better to do on their holidays vandalised a Trans Pennine unit.

Buses are also targets for vandalism i'm afraid, one bus around our
area used to do a school service in the afternoon and then return to
normal passenger workings, unfortunately one day the kids upstairs got
bored and wrecked the bus, pulling out all the wiring, burning the
seats *for a laugh* and breaking anything else in sight short of the
windows. It's a good job one of the little brats didn't get
electrocuted when they were rearranging the electrics, otherwise it
would have been the poor drivers fault...as always...for shame.

Mat.