Late Night Ignoring Asia

Perhaps a hearing test is needed

Station official allowed subway train to leave despite woman being on tracks

Tokyo Metro Co, which operates eight subway lines in Tokyo, said Tuesday that a newly-hired station employee has been removed from duty after he allowed a train to leave Roppongi Station even though a woman had fallen onto the tracks.
According to a Fuji TV report, the female passenger fell into a 25-cm gap between the train and the platform at around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya line. The victim’s friend called to the station official to alert him that she had fallen, but the official in question reportedly misunderstood the call and thought that someone’s personal belongings had fallen onto the track. He then authorized the train to leave the station.
Tokyo Metro said the woman was not knocked unconscious during her fall, and was therefore able to make her own way to an emergency shelter area beneath the platform and wait for the train to leave the station. Police say the woman was not injured during the incident.

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Nothing says stupid like this!

Advertisements for Budweiser on a telephone box outside a school and a range of Jim Beam Racing clothing for children have been included on a list of the nation's most irresponsible alcohol ads.
The ''top 10 shockers'' list was compiled by the Alcohol Advertising Review Board, a joint initiative by the McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and Youth and the Cancer Council Western Australia. It received 200 complaints in its first year, more than double the amount received by the alcohol and advertising industries' voluntary complaints system.
The board's first annual report, launched on Tuesday, revealed it fully upheld 104 of the complaints and partly upheld 32.

Selling beer and whiskey to the kiddies.  Darwin Award winners

They called and called

North Korea did not answer calls made by the South on the communication line that runs through the truce village of Panmunjeom, the Ministry of Unification said Wednesday. Seoul placed a call at 9 a.m., and another at 4. p.m., but the North failed to answer, a ministry official said. "The latest move reflects the cancellation of talks late Tuesday. However, there is a need to wait and see how the situation will unfold," said the official. The two countries were supposed to hold the first government-to-government talks in six years Wednesday in Seoul but they were called off due to a standoff on the status of their delegation leaders.

 

And they wont answer the phone like some petulant teenager