Archive for December, 2006

Another potential Darwin Award

Friday, December 15th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Charging ahead in the international stupidity league, England appears to have more than its fair share of utter nincompoops.

A drunk man who passed out across railway tracks…used the track as a pillow and had his feet inches from the live rail at Epsom, Surrey.

My favourite “love to hate these people” part of that story is when the man’s father seems to think the fault lay not with his 48-year old (!!!) son, but with the railways, as there “should have been barriers to prevent his son from getting on to the railway line”.

Going postal

Saturday, December 9th, 2006 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Predictably enough, money continues to rule the roost in our public “services”. Royal Mail want to close 10,000 (yes – ten thousand) post offices.

The Royal Mail has told the government it could shut 10,000 outlets and still run a viable commercial service.

What do they mean by this? Do they mean they will still be able to provide just enough of a service to say that this country still has some semblance of a postal system? Or is “viable” here meant to mean that those at the top of the postal tree continue to get earn massive salaries? If the post office is in such dire financial straits that such cutbacks are necessary, why is Adam Crozier, the Royal Mail chief, on a salary of

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