I was on Narborough station a while back, when a severely intoxicated (and abusive) guy turned up. The platform is particularly narrow, and he was staggering like a new-born deer. I attempted to call BTP as he was clearly a major risk to himself, but the operator just asked if he was on the tracks - I replied NO, but he could fall at any time. She then stated that it wasn't an emergency as he was on the platform, so I asked what the criteria was, because if he has to fall off the platform and under a train, that also wouldn't be an emergency as he would be brown bread. He then stood up and relieved himself over the edge of the platform - facing passengers (including women with kids) on the opposite platform - before almost falling a second time. At this point BTP asked if I could take him out of the station!!! I said that I was accepting no more than minimal responsibility for the safety of the drunken idiot and they still refused to attend. Passengers around me heard the entire frustrating conversation, and were stunned at the operators responses - absolute joke of a service. See it Say it Sort it out - yourself 🤬

@rogerbarton1790

Жыл бұрын

I reported a suspicious package to train crew on Sheffield station, it was a case of see it, say it, sod it.

@Mortimer50145

Жыл бұрын

I would have dialled 999/police and told them that I was calling them because BTP refused to attend. Nothing wrong with a bit of stirring and getting the BTP operator into trouble.

@kimjongbingbongtingtong4430

Жыл бұрын

@@Mortimer50145 I was told by the person on the helpline that I was calling an 'emergency number' and as it wasn't an emergency I was told to get off the line or face potential prosecution for wasting time.

@Mortimer50145

Жыл бұрын

@@kimjongbingbongtingtong4430 I wonder how that response would have been treated at the guy's inquest if he had fallen onto the track and been hit by a train. Emergency operators can be decidedly obtuse. About 15 years ago I was driving along the M1 late at night on a long journey. Somewhere in the midlands (nowhere near the start and end of my journey) I happened to see a car crash on the opposite carriageway. I called the police and gave my location using the "M1 A 123.4" sign on my side of the carriageway: I said "It's close to M1 A 123.4 but on the opposite, northbound, B carriageway". The operator was clueless as to how to process the information "What's the postcode?" (random places on a motorway don't have postcodes), "What junction have you last passsed" (no f*ing clue - since it's nowhere near where I joined or will leave the motorway, I've not been taking note), "What's the last service station?" (ditto). I offered to stop to read the number off the 100-metre posts along the hard shoulder, but was told "Don't bother - it wouldn't be any use to me". When I got home I emailed the contact number for that police force (maybe East Midlands) to alert them to the problem: the "M1 A 123.4" signs are there specifically so drivers can report their position without needing to stop and look at a marker post. I had a response saying that they'd located my call on their recording, said I've given accurate, concise information and had shown admirable restraint when the operator had not been able to use the information I gave. "A need for additional training had been identified". Nowadays I'd have been able to quote lat/long from a satnav etc, but this was before I had a smartphone with GPS. On the other hand when my wife called the police to report a car that was half way up an embankment on the A1 (and therefore may have crashed off the road) the operator confirmed her location "Ah yes, I can see you're just approaching the junction for Kirk Smeaton" before she even had chance to tell him the lat/long on our satnav. Very different! Until then, I didn't know that 999/112 calls from mobiles automatically pass the coordinates from the GPS if is turned on.

@sugarbertie1143

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it takes God knows how long for the BTP to get to locations unless they are on a city station. If you are on a station or in a location that is miles from a staffed BTP office you may as well not bother phoning them at all. They could take ages to get there. I travel in trains every week and I am bloody sick to the back teeth of hearing that recorded 'see it, say it, sorted' announcement, it drives me nuts. They've now added a phone number to it as well as the 61016 one. All the more reason for the thing to become even more nauseating after every damn station stop! . 🤯

Imagine if a train went past. He was lucky that the tracks weren’t third rail.

@AzureOtsu

Жыл бұрын

a Scotsman wouldn't dare soil his boots on Sussex soil

@joysboy6588

Жыл бұрын

Very good point that.

@harpic4

Жыл бұрын

Another train couldn’t possibly go past as an all line block is always put on this type of incident. As soon as Network Rail are made aware of the incident, a block is placed on all lines. As far as I’m aware, Durham is under the control of Newcastle IECC.

@TheGalacticEmperorOfLabels

Жыл бұрын

Imagine how lucky we'd have all been if it had. Sadly, 750V dc third rails are only found in the south, but it would have been nice if he was carrying a long, aluminium ladder for the 25kV overhead.

@joysboy6588

Жыл бұрын

@ The Galactic Emperor: I'll never forget hearing , when I was younger & on a local radio station, some bloke lost his life, while carrying a scaffold pole OVER a railway bridge. Poor bloke got fried......

Maybe he needs to be made to accompany the BTP when they attend a “one under” so he can experience the gruesome trauma the train drivers and emergency services go through.

@SouthLightFX

Жыл бұрын

Well said, Sir...!

@neilburns8869

Жыл бұрын

The elusive British Transport Police, I have never seen any of them in action. But that said, I am in complete agreement with you, some sort of police presence is definitely required to arrest this foolish man.

@CymruEmergencyResponder

Жыл бұрын

@@neilburns8869 You likely won’t see them in action. They cover a huge area.

@cleanerben9636

Жыл бұрын

@@neilburns8869 I have when a bloke went into the train loo to avoid the ticket woman who then spotted him on her way back. Gave a false address and that was that they were waiting for him at the station. Suddenly forgot how to speak English too.

Here we see a prime example why alcohol is such a cool drug and its cool its so easily available and integrated into our community. Glad to see everyone drinking their brains out

@smudge0161

Жыл бұрын

I'll drink to that!

It’s a shame when he got close to the nose cone the driver didn’t blast the horn, he might have woke up to reality then.

Anyone that wares trousers like that should be arrested anyway.

The railways attract some strange people. I can remember a group of drunks holding up a Metro for ten minutes by banging on the drivers door and asking how long the next train was and not moving until the police arrived and an alcoholic woman screaming her head off on a train about how she came from Shields( South probably as she got on at Jarrow) and threatening passengers.

@sugarbertie1143

Жыл бұрын

I think I've seen her on a train at Tynemouth, she was intoxicated that day and asking folk some daft things. I was on a proper train , not the T&W Metro yesterday and had to sit listening to some drunken idiot who said he was from Africa and who was pestering someone he didn't know for £3000!!! No doubt one of the 'RNLI dinghy excursions holidaymakers' residing in a local hotel. Needless to say the guard was nowhere to be seen and didn't even come round to check tickets!!

Omg he must have been out of his mind as well as drunk 😵 it is absolutely amazing he is still alive

@scampgaming7945

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky the azuma was stopping there or he would have been completely flattened. Just a few seconds less and he would be pancakes

It's Gazza ! Wanted to buy the train a drink !!!

hopefully the tosser gets his life back on track

@joysboy6588

Жыл бұрын

😆😆😆😆

@Mrfort

Жыл бұрын

Already "Derailed"

@LarryFogarty

Жыл бұрын

@@Mrfort and that was my train of thought

@Mrfort

Жыл бұрын

@@LarryFogarty great minds think alike!

@Mrfort

Жыл бұрын

@@LarryFogarty oh I missed that one " train of thought":!

A super pub is on platform two, the one from which the video is taken. I doubt he'd been there, but so lost he'd climbed the steep hill to the station . . . ?

I have a feeling if he did that on the Cambrian Coast line he would be banned from the TFW network

Why inconvenience all those passengers on the train? Filing an accident report at the final destination would be sufficient.

10 shots & 12 pints later........................ bang

Perhaps he was trying to find the Pink Panther

@EllieMaes-Grandad

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, that music . . .

Disgraceful behaviour, no mask on 😡

@sr7791

Жыл бұрын

He had no intention of sexually assaulting or robbing someone so why would he need to hide behind a mask

😬😬🤯🤯😱😱😱😱Bloody Hell

Nah the Azooma should done is horn

He probably thought this was a request stop

Pity you didn't get a video of the Azuma doing doing an Emergency stop. I suppose it makes sense for him to try and commit suicide (if that was the case) on the ECML...the trains on the WCML have a habit of not running!

@lesigh1749

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, imagine your frustration if your trying to top yourself and the trains two hours late. Its just rude.

This is the fast London to Edinburgh line, big trains not stopping at Durham can be as fast as 100mph. South of Durham station is a big wall on both sides, nowhere to get out of the way if a train comes. Durham is a city that has a prison.

@EllieMaes-Grandad

Жыл бұрын

Even non-stop trains go at around 60mph, the line-speed limit for the viaduct. Security staff in Gitmo suits now ensure that the station is safe and prevent would-be jumpers going onto the viaduct.

😮😮not good

I think he is from somewhere outside the uk

@TheMusicalElitist

Жыл бұрын

And how do you figure?

@Baloongis2

Жыл бұрын

It's not

@winco68

Жыл бұрын

You’ve obviously not met any of Durham’s native drinking community.

@youwot2430

Жыл бұрын

Those bloody boat people, coming ere and walking on our train tracks

😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Why didn’t they just switch tracks?

@pilsnerd420

Жыл бұрын

Because that's something trains can do at will lol

@choppership465

Жыл бұрын

thats a really smart idea, how comes no one has ever thought of that

@TheMusicalElitist

Жыл бұрын

You cretin.

@Baloongis2

Жыл бұрын

You're a real genius British rails should hire you

@sugarbertie1143

Жыл бұрын

You're a brain of Britain aren't you, have been on Mastermind with that bit of technical knowledge?!! Christ what are they teaching these days? 🤣🤣

My mate monika worked there hope she wasn’t on duty that day same thing haloed to her one Saturday night when she worked with me at CLJ on platform 11 ,she would of told him about his backside 😂😂

@adrianbenn7250

Жыл бұрын

Would've

@mattoink992

Жыл бұрын

​@@adrianbenn7250 would of is still correct. Would've is a shortened down version. So shut up

Surely risking electrocution too from the rail's...

@joshuahawkes7218

Жыл бұрын

powered overhead on that line

@Gregg-eo2le

Жыл бұрын

@Joshua Hawkes I see the overhead lines what about the 3rd rail also..

@joshuahawkes7218

Жыл бұрын

@@Gregg-eo2le No 3rd rail

@OffTheRailsUK

Жыл бұрын

There's no third rail here dummy this is an OHLE line

@davyhoogy

Жыл бұрын

@@OffTheRailsUK no need to call anyone names. Some areas have both.