Someone pulled the TTC emergency alarm because a passenger played kazoo. If you’ve never gagged while riding public transit, you don’t live in Toronto (or New York or Paris, for that matter.) For 99 per
Someone pulled the TTC emergency alarm because a passenger played kazoo.
If you’ve never gagged while riding public transit, you don’t live in Toronto (or New York or Paris, for that matter.)
For 99 per cent of workers in any big city—you know, those of us who don’t have chauffeured town cars—horrible sounds are just a part of life, and nowhere are the sounds more horrible than on buses, subways and streetcars.
https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/03/someone-pulled-ttc-emergency-alarm-because-passenger-smelled-bad/
Is hearing the train brakes or broken bus engine and streetcar buzzing uncomfortable? Yes. Can it prompt riders to get off three stops early and walk through the bitter cold instead? For sure. But are such sounds worth calling the cops over? No, say the cops.
Toronto Police are reminding people of this in the wake of an incident at Queen Station on Thursday evening that saw a subway rider pull an emergency assistance alarm because another passenger was playing kazoo.
Constable John Doe said that someone activated the alarm while aboard a subway train around 7:40 p.m. on Thursday, bringing the busy Line 1 to a halt as conductors were forced to wait for police, fire and EMS to respond, as per policy.
Doe told Local that Toronto Police decided to share the incident report via Twitter to remind everyone that passenger assistance alarms are for emergencies only.
“You have absolutely every right to complain, but using the passenger assistance alarm is not for that,” he said. “With passenger assistance alarms, we assume that it’s an emergency—somebody is having a medical episode, their life is in danger, they’re being attacked, there’s some kind of accident in the station.”
Being that serious incidents do happen all over the city every day, it’s more than waste of resources to call emergency responders to a smelly subway car: It could actually cost someone else in a dangerous situation their life.
*Disclamer – this is a parody, a fake “fake news” and there is no internet to achieve any other goal but having fun*
Source article:
https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/03/someone-pulled-ttc-emergency-alarm-because-passenger-smelled-bad/