Which of you Tokyo FGs was it...?
Two foreign men playing dead on the JR Chuo Line tracks threw timetables into disarray, affecting some 5,500 passengers, East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said.
Neither of the men was injured, and they were let off with a warning.
"We don't know what the hell they were doing," a JR East official said. "We don't know whether they've affected our construction work, either."
JR east said that when a warning bell started ringing at a railroad crossing along the Chuo Line in the Tokyo suburb of Musashino, the two men lay down on the tracks.
A nearby worker spotted the pair lying down and set off an emergency alarm that caused an express train to come to a screeching halt.
Trains were delayed by almost 10 minutes. The incident occurred near an area where JR is working to expand the number of tracks along the Chuo Line. (Mainichi Shimbun, Nov. 16, 2003)
