tram-diversion-incident

Local knowledge protocol: hidden information, total navigation failure

tram-diversion-incident

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Observation Log: Tram Diversion Incident
COS:B System Errors - Local knowledge protocol: hidden information, total navigation failure
"""

class TramDiversionSequence:
    def __init__(self):
        self.location = "Tram line [NUMBER], Belgrade"
        self.timestamp = "2025-10-19T12:32+02:00"
        self.coordinates_expected = "44.79531° N, 20.37336° E"
        self.coordinates_actual = "44.79434° N, 20.43341° E"
        self.language_barrier = "Critical"
        self.local_knowledge_status = "Absent"
    
    def observe(self):
        return """
The driver's voice crackles through the tram—
Serbian, urgent, incomprehensible.

Around me, a bustle.
People gathering bags,
moving toward the doors.

I stay seated.

Whatever he said doesn't apply to me.
I know where I'm going.

The tram empties by half.

We pull away.

Victory.

Two minutes later: stopped again.

The driver emerges from his cabin
carrying a long metal hook—
industrial, purposeful—

jumps down to the tracks,
jams the hook into the rails,
yanks something free with a metallic scrape,

climbs back in shouting.

The few remaining passengers stand,
file past me without eye contact,
step down to the platform.

I watch them go.

Then follow.

Like a lemming.

The platform is battered, nameless.
Concrete cracking under weeds.
No signage I can read.

I'm the only one standing here now.

Phone out:
completely wrong direction.
Kilometres from where I need to be.

Right.

Time to replan.

Ten minutes.
Two blue buses.
Finally: arrival.

Here's to Belgrade public transport—

and the mysteries it keeps.
        """

if __name__ == "__main__":
    observation = TramDiversionSequence()
    print(observation.observe())
    print(f"\n# Logged: {observation.timestamp}")
    print(f"# Expected: {observation.coordinates_expected}")
    print(f"# Actual: {observation.coordinates_actual}")
    print(f"# Language Barrier: {observation.language_barrier}")
    print(f"# Status: {observation.local_knowledge_status}")