Roland Perry wrote:
In message .com, at
08:35:34 on Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Ian remarked:
Possibly they thought you wre a drunk who had pulled the alarm as part
of an argument with other drunks, and that by getting you off the train
they were defusing things?

Even if he was, evicting them (both sets of potential combatants) from
the relatively controllable situation on the train to the uncontrolled
environment of a station late at night doesn't seem particularly
helpful.

On the other hand, if that's where they were all going, what were the
railway staff to do?

Thinks. Actually, the answer to that is probably "call the police,
particularly since a child was involved"

Ian