Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3787873.ece

Perhaps soldiers or policemen or doctors or insert any profession you
can think of here should protest about any film which shows them in a
bad light or shows something distressing related to what they do.

B2003

On 21 Apr, 12:03, Boltar wrote:
Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3787873.ece

Perhaps soldiers or policemen or doctors or insert any profession you
can think of here should protest about any film which shows them in a
bad light or shows something distressing related to what they do.

Indeed, I don't recall any Police Federation protests about Hot
Fuzz...

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3787873.ece

Anyone knows when we should expect a Tube strike about the film? :-)

alex_t wrote:
Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3787873.ece

Anyone knows when we should expect a Tube strike about the film? :-)

Will there be a long enough free slot on Bob Crow's annual strike planning
wallchart?

Yet another potential strike called off without much hue and cry last week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7356004.stm

Paul

In message
of
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:03:17 in uk.transport.london, Boltar
writes
Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3787873.ece

Perhaps soldiers or policemen or doctors or insert any profession you
can think of here should protest about any film which shows them in a
bad light or shows something distressing related to what they do.

B2003

That article has "Keith Norman, general secretary of Aslef (sic) [I
believe it ought to be ASLEF standing for Associated Society of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen]" saying " ... Last year 249 bodies
ended up under trains. ..."

Can someone provide a reference to where he said so?
What is the origin of the figure?

Does that 249 refer to "Ones Under" on London Underground or nationally?
Where does the statistic come from? I failed to find 249 at
http://www.aslef.org.uk/s/search/101217/search/
I presume the incidence on those Jubilee platforms which have platform
edge doors is negligible. What does such a death cost? What would
platform edge doors cost?
I have always feared standing on LU platforms since watching Hitchcock's
39 Steps in which someone is pushed under an LU train.

I believe the Paris Métro used to have doors preventing platform access
when trains entered platforms. This feature presumably reduced dwell
time. I did not see it used when I last in Paris. What was it scrapped?
--
Walter Briscoe

Boltar wrote:
Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3787873.ece

Perhaps soldiers or policemen or doctors or insert any profession you
can think of here should protest about any film which shows them in a
bad light or shows something distressing related to what they do.

B2003
As a driver who helps victims of train suicide I think it's very poor of
the company to take the 40 pieces of silver for this film to be made on
TFL premises, there is no rule about wiping our 3 members of the public
in a month and getting 10 years salary tax free, for some they never
make it back onto the front.

If a film company wants to make this film then fine but I don't think
that TFL should be involved, the effects on everyone involved can be
terrible, but I guess Boltar is made of sterner stuff and would be back
the following day after just a nip of brandy (make sure it's after the
drug and booze test)

On 21 Apr, 15:20, Walter Briscoe wrote:

In message
of
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:03:17 in uk.transport.london, Boltar
writes

Seems some people have nothing better to do with their lives:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3787873.ece

Perhaps soldiers or policemen or doctors or insert any profession you
can think of here should protest about any film which shows them in a
bad light or shows something distressing related to what they do.


That article has "Keith Norman, general secretary of Aslef (sic) [I
believe it ought to be ASLEF standing for Associated Society of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen]" [...]

Different publications use different house styles when it comes to
acronyms, and the Times is consistent with its use of Aslef. I can't
find reference to it in the Times style guide (which can be accessed
online) but I think those acronyms that can be said aloud as if they
were a word are thus treated like a proper noun and only the initial
letter is capitalised.

On 21 Apr, 16:27, "www.waspies.net" wrote:
As a driver who helps victims of train suicide I think it's very poor of
the company to take the 40 pieces of silver for this film to be made on
TFL premises, there is no rule about wiping our 3 members of the public
in a month and getting 10 years salary tax free, for some they never
make it back onto the front.

You mean this *fictional* *comedy* film isn't really a Panorama
program in desguise and some of it actually might have been *made up*?
Well, I never... Next you'll be telling me the US government doesn't
really have Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones on the payroll fighting
aliens!

If a film company wants to make this film then fine but I don't think
that TFL should be involved, the effects on everyone involved can be
terrible, but I guess Boltar is made of sterner stuff and would be back
the following day after just a nip of brandy (make sure it's after the
drug and booze test)

Perhaps no films involving car accidents should ever be made in case
it offends someone who's ever been in a bad one then?

B2003

In message , at 15:27:47 on Mon,
21 Apr 2008, www.waspies.net remarked:
As a driver who helps victims of train suicide I think it's very poor
of the company to take the 40 pieces of silver for this film to be made
on TFL premises, there is no rule about wiping our 3 members of the
public in a month and getting 10 years salary tax free, for some they
never make it back onto the front.

I have every sympathy with what you do in your job, but this is
just-another-case of "New Scientist" (or Which? Magazine) syndrome,
which is that any subject you don't know about seems to be depicted
pretty much OK, but anything you *do* know about is a complete travesty.

eg: Cop-shows on TV are staggeringly unrealistic when it comes to police
procedure; it's just not funny (if you worry about such things). On the
other hand, if you think scene-of-crimes officers double as a swat team,
or can read a cctv image of a car numberplate a mile away - keep
watching CSI-NewYork without complaining.
--
Roland Perry

In message
, at
10:17:59 on Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Boltar remarked:
Perhaps no films involving car accidents should ever be made in case
it offends someone who's ever been in a bad one then?

Having been there and got the t-shirt, one of the most upsetting things
in the aftermath is any kind of funeral depicted on TV.

--
Roland Perry