Feet on train seat
Student is taken to court after putting her feet on train seat
A student is being prosecuted after she briefly put her flip-flops up on a train seat.
Despite immediately apologising to the “rail enforcement” officer who reported her, Kathleen Jennings, 19, has been summoned to appear before magistrates today.
Miss Jennings, who is studying mathematics at Manchester University, has been accused of “wilfully interfering with the comfort or convenience” of other rail passengers.
Miss Jennings, a Cub Scout leader who also works with disabled children, said that she had just put the tips of her flip-flops on the unoccupied seat in front of her when the official approached her and said to her, “Are you comfortable?”.
(Published by Times Online, September 4, 2007)
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