30-Mar-2003, 02:13 PM
At least that type of naughty antic doesn't physically harm anyone. On Friday night/Saturday morning some wicked kids laid sleepers across the railway track just 3 miles from me (Carr Mill) and derailed the first Liverpool Wigan train of the morning. According to Radio 4, the line was shut all yesterday as a result. Luckily no injuries, but it could have been very nasty indeed and the driver was badly traumatised as it was. Along the same route lumps of concrete are regularly thrown off bridges onto passing trains. [
!] And the govt want us to use public transport more? The local paper tells me that plain clothes policemen are having to travel on certain Wigan bus routes in the evenings because gangs of kids are causing trouble on buses. Remember when 'knock and run' used to be the height of naughtiness? [V]
!] And the govt want us to use public transport more? The local paper tells me that plain clothes policemen are having to travel on certain Wigan bus routes in the evenings because gangs of kids are causing trouble on buses. Remember when 'knock and run' used to be the height of naughtiness? [V]