[catherine]

Bruvva you started this thread not because a poor woman was pushed head first on to train tracks when a train was arriving but because the police missed two letters off one word. If there is anything wrong with England it's the fact that people pick over the tiny little pathetic things in life.

[Andy B]

Hmm monday morning, Just before 12, I'm guessing the kettle in Bruvva's office is on the blink so no coffee yet?

No kettles here, we have a machine that spurts out boiling water at the flick of a switch. A truly marvellous invention.

Boiling water at the flick of a switch? No waiting by the kettle shouting at it in an attempt to get it to boil quicker? Tell me more of this revolutionary device and where can I get one for my shop?

Also I think it's the little things in life that matter, get the little things right and everything else falls in to place.

[catherine]

Yes because correcting that notice will find the person that nearly killed a woman.

[Bruvva]

Bruvva you started this thread not because a poor woman was pushed head first on to train tracks when a train was arriving but because the police missed two letters off one word. If there is anything wrong with England it's the fact that people pick over the tiny little pathetic things in life.

Yes of course being able to communicate effectively and unambiguously is tiny and pathetic. Personally I think that woman deserves a police force that can effectively pursue the person who pushed her in front of a train, and if that police force can't even get a notice asking for help right then I don't think the criminals in this country have anything to worry about. It doesn't exactly inspire confidence does it?

[catherine]

Do you seriously think one word on that notice will matter to this case?

[Andy B]

Hang on the sign and the woman are two totally unrelated things, that woman didn't get killed because of that sign, if she did it shows incredible foresight on behalf of the met which I just don't credit them with.

No matter what that sign said she still would have died anyway. The point is that if we can't rely on the police to spell sign right how de we know they are doing other things right. What about taking the surnames of suspects, spell the right name wrong, pass the file to someone else and countless police hours are wasted chasing the wrong guy for example.

[catherine]

I didn't say the woman got attacked because of the sign or whatever your post was all about I'm saying the one word would not have any impact on the case what so ever. If you have ever been arrested or ever had to make a statement they ask you how to spell your name and surname and address.

[MK Chris]

Do you have experience of this? Was it when you got your first ASBO?

[catherine]

I can't remember getting my first ASBO I was still in my mums womb

[Andy B]

Did she die? I thought the sign was saying its an attempted murder? (Don't come to the point it says "Attempt murder")

That's my point, people are confusing two stories, the first being an simple post by Bruvva (a simple man tee hee) about a mis-spelled sign appealing for witnesses to an attempted murder.

the Second post was someone relating a story of a completely different woman who was pushed under a train (not I might add by a guy reading that mis-spelled sign) giving the reason he'd never done it or something.

The two stories are not related apart from teh fact that they both involve train stations as far as I can tell.

I still maintain it's the height of humour and ranks up there with the best of That's Life where they point out foreign signs that are harmless in their native tongue but funny to us, like oh I dont know I'm sure if you looked hard enough some country probably sells a brand of cheese called Knob or something.

[Andy B]

People have been talking about both which has confused the issues and muddied the water for those of us who just want to chuckle at the simple things in life.

[catherine]

The only person that got confused between the two stories was you. Laughing at the simple things in life? Oh yeah a person being chucked under an arriving train, simple and hilarious.

[Andy B]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

[catherine]

A simple person having a hilarious break down.

[Boboff]

Seriously? Surely everyone over the age of five knows the alphabet?

Toph I so agree with you man. Last Night I for the first time sat down with my son to go through his letter cards, and although he has been able to recite by route the Alphabet from about 3, when you actually got the letters he thought the middle bit was ellmenopee, he had no idea that the 5 letters were L,M,N,O,P. He is five and a half. Anyway after I shouted at him and made him cry by calling him a retard and a *, we settled down to bribing him with biscuits until he got it right. The trouble is he never really sees an alphabet, they use posters with letters and pictures on, and concentrate on sounds first. So you learn aaaaa, buh, suh, duh, eah, ff etc so then they actually have to go back and learn to say the alphabet properly.

I must admit always finding this bit the hardest bit to learn !

[Yudster]

A bit of advice to anyone out there with pre-school age children or planning to have kids - teach them to read and write yourself, and make sure they are proficient before they start school. Current teaching methods seem to make the whole process far more complicated and difficult than it needs to be, it's no wonder so many kids have problems. Baby Yudster is three, and he can recite the alphabet (with the usual "enemenepee" bit in the middle), but he doesn't yet know what letters DO. We're going to start after Christmas. He likes books, so it will be fairly painless! Now, if someone can come over and start teaching him maths, he'll be all ready for school next September!

[MK Chris]

I reckon I will try that when I have kids. I'm not sure I'll be a good teacher though.

[scamp88]

hmmm

I found alot of people were being thrown onto train tracks when i work for BTP, not a nice way to go indeed.

B x

[MK Chris]

Since you couldn't be arsed, I took the liberty of looking it up.

It's called ballast and it's to prevent weeds growing and allow drainage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_ballast
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/fr ... 739AAEzyFa

[Yudster]

I knew that. But my first husband was a train driver.

[MK Chris]

My dad is a train conductor. He takes great pleasure in chucking people off.