Tuesday 25th February

At the subway station this morning they were testing the alarm sirens. There were two kinds: one that sounded like an ambulance and one that sounded like a cartoon sound effect. After the sirens a voice would annouce that it was only a test. Everyone knows that they are testing because of last week's subway fire in Korea. And I bet everyone in Tokyo thought about that when they were on their own crowded subway trains. According the news the driver of one of the train panicked, took the keys of the train and ran away. Taking the keys meant that the doors stayed closed, trapping the passengers on the burning train. It's alway human error that causes these things. Although in this case malicious human error - mad man wants to kill himself so pours gasoline on a train and sets light to it. Then gets off! Guess he wasn't so serious about killing himself after all.
Seems to have been a lot big accidents recently - this subway fire, the US night club fire and the US night club stampede and crush accident. Maybe this is a case of bad things happening in three's. Or perhaps a case of three bad things happening.