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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 56 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Nothing that crazy I guess, but two events I remember:

  • A small fire broke out next to the tracks and the train driver actually stopped the train and got out to extinguish it

  • A train busker played so loudly and terribly that a group of random passengers got together to shove him out of the train at the next station.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 27 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Someone playing an instrument inside of a train, Jesus that's obnoxious

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Indeed. Busking on the street is fine, as you can just walk somewhere else if you don't like it, but on a train you're trapped with them. Pretty sure it's illegal here as well.

[–] Botunda@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, you haven't lived until you've had to ride the express A going downtown with a mariachi band at full-tilt.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There are places where this is common. They hope to get paid (I assume to get them to leave). Sometimes they're accompanied by pick-pockets who pray on the distracted.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

Assholes, they're basically extorting people to stop the annoying shit and to get them to fuck off

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 minutes ago

Yeah, I hadn't heard any buskers on the Stockholm metro for years until a few weeks ago when a guy I had seen earlier busking, came onboard again with his weird wooden box with metal strings that is played with two hooked sticks and started playing.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

Not proper public transport, but my dad is an active member of a heritage railroad.

This railroad rund both steam and diesel trains.

When it is dry outside they will run a fire watch train after the steam train, basically a tank car with water and a petrol pump, pulled by a diesel locomotive.

But this day they didn't run the fire watch train, and I was tagging along with dad as he drove the classic DMU trains.

We come around a corner and see smoke comming from a farmer's field, it had caught on fire/smolder from the steam train...

We stop, obviously, bring our large water can and start working the fire, after a few min the fire department came and we could hand it over to them