{"id":4389,"date":"2013-01-17T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:05:53","slug":"more-toilets-please-clap-clap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4389","title":{"rendered":"More toilets please! *clap* *clap*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post Icon wp-image-4390\" title=\"NoShit\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NoShit-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NoShit-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NoShit.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>There are lots of crazy news to read these days. But when it comes to absurd<br \/>\nthings (things, normal people won&#8217;t do, usually!) then it makes me think what<br \/>\ncould have moved person XY to do such a silly thing. In this news the<br \/>\nperson has died shitting between platform and train and fell into the track.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What may sound funny to you (and initially to me also, to be honest) made me thoughtful later on.<\/p>\n<p>Why would one risk his life doing his business at a busy platform (not only that thousands of people could observe you but also that an inrushing train could catch you and drag you into the track) ? In this case we won&#8217;t ever know as the person is dead now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does the MTA (Manhattan Transport Authority) fail to build restrooms in the stations?<\/li>\n<li>Do the restrooms cost an unusual high usage fee the man could not pay for resp. was not willing to pay for?<\/li>\n<li>Was the man drunk?<\/li>\n<li>Did someone tip him over?<\/li>\n<li>Is there really no surveillance camera that has recorded that scene?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several questions. And almost no answers.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is for sure: Will we see another pictogram at the stations&#8217; entrances soon?<\/p>\n<p>One like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4391\" title=\"NoShit\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NoShit1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NoShit1.png 128w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NoShit1-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Defecation into track forbidden!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Danger from approaching trains!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what will come. We already have notes about &#8220;Caution, content may be hot&#8221; on coffee cups (yes, fresh coffee indeed tends to be hot, so a normal person wouldn&#8217;t take a big careless sip of it. RV manuals have notes like &#8220;Cruise control doesn&#8217;t take care of steering&#8221; (yeah, I know, the english language has some &#8216;false friends&#8217; there but Cruise control actually only holds the speed!) and microwave ovens have pictograms with small animals or notes like &#8220;Don&#8217;t dry your pet in the microwave oven&#8221; in their manuals imprinted.<\/p>\n<p>What seems common and logical to europeans, seems to be only logical to american people if there&#8217;s a law prohibiting it&#8230; *sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of crazy news to read these days. But when it comes to absurd things (things, normal people won&#8217;t do, usually!) then it makes me think what could have moved person XY to do such a silly thing. In this news the person has died shitting between platform and train and fell into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,19],"tags":[311,2298,433,2297,427,2299],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-death","tag-defecation","tag-new-york","tag-platform","tag-station","tag-track"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}