Last night a train derailed and slid down a steep embankment. I am a regular Virgin trains user and the experience must have been harrowing. Something happened last night on BBC News 24 that made me feel numb.
A BBC employee/reporter happened to be travelling in one of the coaches and she phoned in to give a live report from inside one of the stricken coaches. Around her we could hear the sounds of windows being broken as people made their exit and screams and shouts from hurt/scared passengers. She sounded most pleased with herself to be in such a career enhacing position.
Put yourself in that situation. As people are trying to evacuate a stricken train and help others to escape your first though is to phone your boss and enhance your career prospects. Why not get out of the train and help everyone else out and then do everything you can to look after injured people outside the train first? Then think about handing over an eyewitness report. These were tasteless and selfish first instincts.
1 comment:
I didn't listen to the live report. But it is so true what you wrote about that tasteless person.
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