Yesterday a minor fire at Pitampura metro Station caused mayhem at Delhi Metro Dilshad Garden-Rithala Line. The metros were delayed by approximately two hours. Fire can happen anywhere and anytime. It is not the fire that forced me to write this post but the lack of common sense of the metro officials.
A single journey metro token is valid for approximately an hour after it has been swiped at the start point of ones journey. My close friend boarded the metro from Dilshad Garden at 5:50, she reached Pitampura metro station at 7:45, till then her token had expired and she could not get out. My friend and many others requested the metro officials at the Pitampura station to open the way as an exception because of the fire. Did the metro people use their common sense, NO they didn’t. They said that they didn’t have the right authority to open the exit way. Then who gave them the authority to stop people from going home after most of them sat in the metro for 2 hours. Agitated passengers tried to talk sense into metro officials but as I said common sense is not so common after all, rest of the story I am sure you will figure out.
Tags : DMRC, Delhi Metro, Fire, Pitampura, Metro Station, 21 April 2009
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Slideshare.net a slide sharing site played an April Fool's prank on its users. They somehow fudged with the view counts on the slides and informed the users via email that they are SlideShare Rockstars. Also, they prompted the users to brag about their achievements on twitter along with #bestofslideshare, so that later they could track how many people fell for this prank.
Some people found it funny and acted cool. But I must say that many were annoyed and have criticised Slideshare pretty heavily on twitter and the net in general. For those who have serious slides on Slideshare it might have been pretty embarassing for them and their annoyance can be pretty must justified. Slideshare reps Jonathan and Dan are trying very hard to console their users
Hope slideshare.net recovers from this fast. A lesson well learnt for other social sharing sites.
