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They always come, with remarkable accuracy and timing, to coincide with the many people that are coming out of the train stations during the rush hour. Either the police or the ambulance service. They also come if they are listening in on peoples' mobile phone frequencies. Someone calls their husband etc, or their boyfriend/girlfriend, and says that they are on their way back. "Let's give the train an earshot of our voice and any other id, and mention that we are going down a long empty street. Shame about the people on the corner who have been curfewed." And they pick up on these words that are not addressed to them and come like the military.