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Now do one for Deutsche Bahn :D

There was some news a few weeks ago where DB was saying train delays/cancellations were due to sabotage. Probably by Russian agents. Sure thing DB.

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There’s absolutely enough to blame the DB for, but the sabotage was a real thing - unless you want to imply that the federal police is lying.

Source (in German): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bahn-sabotage-101.html

Deutsche Bahn has some announcements which are amazingly unspecific (something like "[the delay] is due to delays in the operating sequence"). They also have multiple euphemisms for accidents/suicide (translated it would be something like "personal injury at the track, personal injury IN the track, emergency doctor deployed at the track").

If they were to record the announcements today, maybe they should add one for sabotage and one for stolen overhead lines...

Relatively recently they switched from announcing track/train/signalling/overhead line/… failures to announcing everything as "repairs". I suppose the hope was that that would make them sound more proactive (look, we're already repairing the failure), but in practice those new phrasings often just sound silly.

> Deutsche Bahn has some announcements which are amazingly unspecific (something like "[the delay] is due to delays in the operating sequence")

And the local public transport operator (buses/trams) uses "operational reasons" as a euphemism for "lack of drivers".

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