Panic!!

From the Daily Hate:
Trapped under the sea: Hundreds in Channel Tunnel terror after train breaks down for six hours.

Blimey, that sounds dramatic.

Some began to panic, one diabetic woman fainted, some had asthma attacks and several children passed out.

A sealed metal carriage door had to be prised open to allow cool air in, bottled water ran out and the toilets stopped working.

Passengers also said they were left uninformed about what was being done to get them out.

Hmm.
So, to sum up:

1. You were on a train
2. It stopped
3. It got stuffy
4. People checked up on you via the service tunnel that exists for exactly that purpose (which is also an available escape route if one should be required)
   
5. You waited some more
6. The train got there
   

Indeed, that is the stuff of nightmares.
Oh the humanity.

I hope the Mail, in it's own inimitable style, is embellishing this a touch.  This isn't terror (acute claustrophobics exempted -but they should've taken the ferry), this is an unpleasant inconvenience.
Without getting too patriotically trite; we're supposed to be a country of stiff upper-lips, getting-by in the blitz, and shaking off tube bombings to go for a pint.  Not a bunch of whining ponces, crying to the papers about the 'ordeal' they've suffered in having a toss start to the holiday.

The experience was compounded because the loss of power had effectively locked all the doors, although emergency lights did come back on.

Probably for the best, else these fairies would've been running up and down the tracks in a blind panic.

He said: 'We had a technical incident on one of our trains. Everybody was safe throughout.'

Fuck that, what about the psychological damage, you evil corporate bastard?
COMPO! COMPO!

Addendum: Apologies for the ironically Daily Mail-esque nature of this blog post