Calagry Train Operator Fired

[bouche]

Remember this story from last week? I was amazed that this shitty photo was used to prove that a driver was doing a puzzle while driving. All I see is a guy operating something that uses a lever...one hand appears to be all you need to drive this thing. The other hand has a pen in between fingers. I don't see someone actually doing a puzzle.

Anyway, the driver was fired.

Can you really be fired for holding a pen?

[Ms.Huxtable]

I can clearly see the puzzle in front of him as well as a pen in his hand.

[backbacon]

Isn't it impossible to show someone doing a puzzle (which requires movement) with a photo? I think there is sufficient evidence to conclude he is doing a crossword puzzle. I assume he considered the importance of the controls and carefully chose the placement of his paper as to not cover anything too important.

[lightsweetcrude]

Drivin' that train....

[bouche]

he's not even writing anything. people are becoming pussies.

[backbacon]

If he was writing couldn't you just say he was simply holding his pen to the paper, since you couldn't see movement in the photo? A Crossword puzzle requires more thinking (and not about driving a train) than it does actually writing.

I think I'll play some Angry Birds on the drive home today...