Clearly, Yokohama doesn’t have Jamaican gangs
April 4th, 2008The Japanese have a reputation for being well-mannered, but anyone who’s ever caught a train here would know that it’s not always deserved. Finally, though, a railroad operator has come up with an idea to get people behaving properly with the Yokohama Municipal Subway by appointing manner police, who’ll start operating later this month, Yomiuri Weekly (3/23) says.
Each of the 11 manner cops has received formal instruction from a corporate training company, learning the correct manners in addressing people, how to approach to strangers and phrases to use that make it simpler to get a point across to others.
The types of infractions the subway’s manner cops will be on the lookout for include people standing near carriage entrances and making it tough for others to get on or off the trains, those taking up more than one seat and others who are using their mobile phones, including to send e-mail.
Those poor old guys wouldn’t last five minutes here in Toronto. Which is too bad, because we really needd them here.
AND while we are on the subject of possibly arming TTC Security I wonder where Comrade Miller will get the guns if his proposal to ban guns was successful?
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