The chop
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Bus crews in East London have apparently been having a pretty rough time with some of their latenight passengers, and eventually 40 drivers and conductors got together and arranged a karate class. Presumably; it was a case of pay up or get the chop. But not everyone agreed with the idea and took the view that meeting violence with violence would lead to more violence, and so conductor Eric Howe, who had arranged for a black-belt karate man, Paul Masters, to take the classes on a Sunday morning, had to cancel them.
No one quite seems to know who was against the idea because London Transport said that they encourage their staff to take up all forms of sport including karate. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea anyway. A much better idea would be for the conductor to keep the hooligans on the pavement while the driver got his foot down.
*Boggle.
by the Hawk