Comments on: I Saw a Metro Employee Napping. Should I Have Taken Cell Phone Video?

By: Our Morning Roundup: Metro Goes Wireless Edition - City Desk - Washington City Paper

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:46:14 +0000

[...] busiest underground stations.” Project slated for completion by October 16. All the better to tweet when you see a Metro employee asleep at the wheel, dear! Meanwhile, as the Baltimore Sun observes, Metro’s “summer of horrors” [...]

By: Angry Al Gonzales

Angry Al Gonzales — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:03:48 +0000

More crybabies working at Metro - no surprise. If you don't kill anyone for a few months, maybe we won't be watching you so carefully. Do your job, don't kill anybody, & stop your crybaby bitching.

By: sock puppet

sock puppet — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:45:34 +0000

It's a new policy to install tail gunners in order to fend off overly ambitious trailing trains.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:10:19 +0000

I am pretty sure there aren't operators at the rear of the train. We would have heard about a dead one in the accident a few weeks ago if that was the case. And the fact the he got off the train before the end of the line should make it pretty obvious that an operator isn't required to be in the rear.

Sounds like he was just going home and didn't want to ride with the plebes. Occupational privelege. No scandal here.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:30:01 +0000

Hmm, they have operators at the rear of the train?

Maybe he just locked himself in there so he could take a nap?

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:21 +0000

At least he wasn't texting.