Oops.. (French trains are too fat)

[SoCalDem]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27502184

Two thousand new French trains 'too fat for railway'

21 May 2014 Last updated at 10:57 BST

The French train operator SNCF has discovered that 2,000 new trains it ordered at a cost of 15bn euros ($20.5bn; £12.1bn) are too wide for many regional platforms.

The blunder has so far cost the rail operator over 50m euros ($68.4m; £40.6m).

Construction work has begun on widening hundreds of platforms.

Christian Fraser in Paris says it is "an embarrassing situation".

[shenmue]

1. Send them to the gym

[Laelth]

2. Yikes! That's a serious error.

Some heads will have to roll as a result of this blunder. That's a colossal waste of resources.

-Laelth

[Octafish]

3. Reminds me of the time they built a nuclear plant with a backwards blueprint.

San Onofre.

[chrisa]

4. If I lived in France, my caboose would be oversized too.

[MADem]

5. The food is superb but the portions are not over-large, and people walk a lot. nt

[struggle4progress]

6. Say "cheese"!

[surrealAmerican]

7. Surely, if the trains are too wide ...

... you would need to narrow, not widen, the platforms.

... or did they mean too long?

I feel like I need pictures for this one.

[TexasProgresive]

8. Picky, picky you think words ought to mean what they mean?

Me too. I caught that and was wondering the same thing.

[IronLionZion]

9. I'm sure that's what they meant

there's a video in the link

[MrScorpio]

10. How do you say, "D'Oh!" in French? nt

[11 Bravo]

11. "Do these platforms make my caboose look fat?"