Mobissimo

This one is pretty funny. The usually staid public railway/subway/bus announcers worldwide are usually pretty mellow, 'the next stop is ...' or 'please mind the gap' or 'the next train is ...' but this London Tube announcer used her own website's PA system to voice other views.

In one she says: "We would like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loudly."

In another she announces that the passenger pretending to read a paper but actually staring at a woman's chest should stop, since he was "not fooling anyone, you filthy pervert"

To wake up to, or ride home from work to such witty barbs would be a welcome change from the monotonous, rote scripts that announcers must use. Yet the London Tube has the last laugh, they have sacked her for her criticisms of the system.

"London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Ms Clarke are experiencing severe delays," he added, according to the London Evening Standard.

Clarke told the daily she was surprised by the decision. "I don't feel that I have been slagging them off -- that was never my intention. It was just a bit of a laugh," she said.

But said a Tube spokesman: "We won't be providing her with any more work. It's not because of the spoof announcements. It's because she has criticised the Underground system."

While not a good idea to make fun of your employer, I'm sure the general populace would side with her and this will be a major PR disaster for the London Transportation and Ms. Clarke will be soon employed again. After all, how can democracy exist without one man, one voice?