Running a Train?

London commuters baffled by sex broadcast
By Michael Holden, REUTERS

LONDON - London commuters listening out for the latest news about train services got a broadcast with a difference when the noise of a couple apparently having sex was blasted out over a station’s loudspeaker system.

Instead of the usual messages about delays, passengers at West Ham station in east London heard the sounds of love-making being relayed over platform loudspeakers during the evening rush hour on Thursday.

“The noises heard by passengers were not from within our station. We believe they were a result of some sort of interference with our public address system,” a Transport for London spokesman said on Friday. “It certainly wasn’t coming from our staff.”

He said the station’s public address system worked on radio waves and somebody must have been broadcasting on the same wavelength. He said staff had turned off the loudspeakers as soon as they realised what was going on.

“It was definitely a couple doing it there and then,” passenger Laura O’Connor told the London Evening Standard newspaper. “He was grunting loudly and she sounded like she was having a great time. The driver must have heard it, too, as the doors stayed open longer than usual.”

I suppose I'm inclined to believe the train station's story that the sex didn;t come from their employees. I mean, I don't know the exact nature of the mass transit system in England but if its anything like the U.S. I doubt its workers are getting a ton of action. Odds are the PA guy was watching some porn and accidently flicked the wrong switch with his foot while he had his led propped up on the table.