AND NOW.....we have a rail company that have introduced a carriage where coughing is banned because travellers find this irritating! Britain has gone banning bonkers!

See ckgsheffield below for hyperlink

Where?

Is there a hyperlink or did you make it up yourself?

No, I didn't make it up - it's too silly to make up. The Sun Newspaper - December 15th - quote - "THIS CARRIAGE IS COUGH FREE" - rail commuters are to get a cough free carriage to escape germs, it was announced yesterday. The special coaches - where anyone with a splutter will be banned - will be on London to Essex coast services run by company c2c. They will operate until April after a survey revealed travellers who cough are among comuters' pet hates".

haha, if thats true, which im not sure as it's from the sun newspaper, then thats ridiculous, what are they going to do, make you wait somewhere first to see who coughs.

then once onboard, if you do cough, they chuck you off the train:suspect:

No, I didn't make it up - it's too silly to make up.... "The Sun Newspaper"

I had to pick myself up off the floor because I was laughing so hard after reading that. Perhaps you should read a more reliable news source, like Viz?

Originally posted by sally_sheff
AND NOW.....we have a rail company that have introduced a carriage where coughing is banned because travellers find this irritating! Britain has gone banning bonkers!

sally_sheff has now been banned from sf for typing too fast.

Source: The Sun newspaper. :D

Whatever next ;)
Mobile fones, courting couples slobbering all over each other?
The trains are just not safe for the unwary traveller today :)

at winter time when folk suffer with colds this doesnt seem like good p r by the train company

most of the carriages would be empty,

Daily Mail - 14th December (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=371677&in_page_id=1770&ct=5)

surely if its provided by benelin, it shows their medicines don't work :hihi:

What a load of old rubbish this is. It's quite clearly a marketing ploy by Benylin.

What are they going to do if there's just one person on the train with a bit of a cough? Are they going to march him off to his own personal train carriage while all the rest of the poor commuters are crammed into the rest? What about those with asthma, who are completely bug-free, but sometimes prone to the odd coughing fit?

A child-free train carriage would be a better idea. Put all the hyperactive, sugar-crazed little brats and their parents in one carraige so they can scream and run about to their hearts' content, and I can commute in peace without having the back of my seat kicked repeatedly for the duration of the journey...

I reckon a person free carriage would be the answer and it would probably be cheaper.... :D

The carriage will operate until April 2006 and has been set up by cough medicine company Benylin.

The initiative followed a survey by the company which listed people who cough as one of the top 10 pet hates of rail travellers.

A spokesman for c2c told the London Evening Standard: "You get thoughtless people who either insist on travelling and spreading germs when, for the benefit of all, they should have stayed at home.

"We think our special carriage will be very popular".

The poll, of 1,137 people, showed 47 per cent would welcome a "cough-free zone" on a train, with 28 per cent saying they would move to escape from a coughing fellow passenger.

Commuters' top 10 pet hates were:


Stinkers
Seat takers
Loud music lovers
Smokers
Smelly food eaters
People with smelly breath
Bag ladies
Coughers
Snorers
Paper readers



:confused: :confused: :confused: Thought this was a joke but really!!! The quote from spokesman was the best slamming people with colds "who insist on travelling and spreading germs when, for the benefit of all, they should have stayed at home"

Am sure that we would all love to stay at home but when you work for a company who say if you have over 3 incidences of sickeness in a year you get a formal hearing and warning it isn't really an option!

I wonder if c2c are so forgiving of all their employees and ask them to stay at home for a case of the sniffles!

Oh dear am also now sounding like a mail reader -will go and have a word with self.

Originally posted by harris
The carriage will operate until April 2006 and has been set up by cough medicine company Benylin.

The initiative followed a survey by the company which listed people who cough as one of the top 10 pet hates of rail travellers.

A spokesman for c2c told the London Evening Standard: "You get thoughtless people who either insist on travelling and spreading germs when, for the benefit of all, they should have stayed at home.

"We think our special carriage will be very popular".

The poll, of 1,137 people, showed 47 per cent would welcome a "cough-free zone" on a train, with 28 per cent saying they would move to escape from a coughing fellow passenger.

Commuters' top 10 pet hates were:


Stinkers
Seat takers
Loud music lovers
Smokers
Smelly food eaters
People with smelly breath
Bag ladies
Coughers
Snorers
Paper readers



:confused: :confused: :confused: Thought this was a joke but really!!! The quote from spokesman was the best slamming people with colds "who insist on travelling and spreading germs when, for the benefit of all, they should have stayed at home"

Am sure that we would all love to stay at home but when you work for a company who say if you have over 3 incidences of sickeness in a year you get a formal hearing and warning it isn't really an option!

I wonder if c2c are so forgiving of all their employees and ask them to stay at home for a case of the sniffles!

Oh dear am also now sounding like a mail reader -will go and have a word with self.

Cool.... what a good and funny post. :D