This is directly tied to "The Men Who Stare at Goats" featured earlier on boing boing. And to think you doubted the powers of the adminstration's front line. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/07/the-men-who-stare-at.html

Not defending SP by any means, but if you live in the Bay Area and you read the news, then you can't be unaware of the fact that lately people seem to be stepping in front of the train almost weekly. And just a few years ago a babysitter walked one boy across the tracks, went back to fetch an infant and the boy followed her. He was killed by the train. So they're a bit touchy about people being on the tracks.

I used to take the train up to Sacramento and Chico, a couple of hours north. Whereas the highways veer inland as the go up through the East Bay, the train hugs the water and even goes through what looks like an abandon, half sunken, outpost. You get to see parts of the Bay you'll never get close to in a car. Pretty cool ride actually.

Just as an aside, you can always tell Korean (like this example) from Japanese and Chinese by the small circles in the characters. While both Chinese and Japanese have closed shapes in their calligraphy, they rarely have a real circle unless it's extremely stylized.

I love Top Gear, but let us not forget, this is the same man who thinks global warming and other ideas like "low gas mileage" are for panzies. Karma baby!!