Daily Mash - rail companies activate weather machine

[OLJR]

Rail companies activate weather machine

PRIVATISED rail companies are using a weather machine to justify their poor service, it has emerged
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The Weathertron machine can provide a range of conditions, including rain, snow and sleet, whenever a convenient excuse is needed.
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“If a train is late – perhaps because we’ve not serviced it since 1995 and all the windows have fallen out – we just wheel out the Weathertron and fire off some bad weather to that part of the country.
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The source added that to avoid wearing out the weather excuse, other methods were sometimes used, such as dropping leaves onto the line from a helicopter or wheeling some plastic cows in front of a train.

 

[dysonsphere]

glad to see sacarsam is alive and well.

 

[Saint66]

For anyone who may overreact, the Daily Mash is a well known site which publishes sarcastic and comedic news stories, there is no intent to harm the railways.

 

[theshillito]

Having "PRIVATISED" capitalised was the icing on the cake

 

[Saint66]

I enjoyed the final paragraph:

The source added that to avoid wearing out the weather excuse, other methods were sometimes used, such as dropping leaves onto the line from a helicopter or wheeling some plastic cows in front of a train.