Seems a little fishy to me. I mean, the MTA doesn't keep records, and they only interviewed one technician who said that the fainter's 'topped' all the other options (though I'm assuming as a plurality and not a majority of the sick passengers). Dunno, just sounds like a conversation in a bar turned into an article for the AP. And I just noted the sub headline, "Passengers ill from not eating are a top reason for disruptions, study finds" which is not what the article says at all.
Which, of course, is not to imply that nobody's fainting of anorexia in the New York subways and thus inconveniencing passengers (though I'm fairly certain I'd be more pissed off by the interruption due to hangover than the fainter.) And Lord knows, nothing's funnier than people starving from mental illness, but somehow this article does not seem like a good jumping pad for the discussion. On 1/5/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of anorexia, you know you've become humor-starved when you're > disappointed that John Kelly's chat won't display correctly. It's much > like the feeling of being unable to download Freebird. You don't know > exactly why you care, but you do. I mean, Freebird makes me want to > throw up. > > --- In [email protected], "Ellen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16444534/ > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
