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WEST SACRAMENTO: Teen arrested in attack on train engineer - Youths allegedly beat him with rocks
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 4/19/7
| Michael Cabanatuan
Posted on 04/19/2007 8:00:04 AM PDT by SmithL
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:00:06 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:03:05 AM PDT
by
pissant
To: SmithL
I think it’s funny that this kid is old enough commit felony assault, but not old enough to be named.
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:04:39 AM PDT
by
NYleatherneck
(It ain't a World War until the French surrender.)
To: pissant
Preemptive thread hijacking?
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:05:48 AM PDT
by
wideawake
To: pissant
What is next, ban rocks and bottles?
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:06:06 AM PDT
by
elpinta
(Tagline temporarily out of service)
To: SmithL
Hmmmm, is a remake in the offing???
To: pissant
Occurred in my old neighborhood, Broderick, yea could be illegals but a lot of hobos ride the rails sleep and camp along the river there. Not the best of areas.
To: SmithL
I was on Amtrak in Dec, headed to LA. Around El Paso, I heard a couple of bangs under my car and then the side. Later I was told that kids threw something under the train and rocks at the side. A lady that rides the train a lot told me that it happens more frequently than people know. Coming back, we had so many pit stops. An employee would have to get off the train, and check the tracks and then he would get on as we passed and walk back to the front. People wonder why the train can’t stay on schedule.
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:07:07 AM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: SmithL
the boy, whose name was not released because of his age This practice needs to stop..........
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:08:24 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: FlatLandBeer
It sounds like punk kids/ gang members to me. Join the NRA. Are we victims in our own land? I think not.
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:09:53 AM PDT
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: SmithL
Those are electric diesels, correct? GE makes a fine mini-gun, that I’m sure could be adapted to fit a locomotive. This should present a few problems to any troublemakers on the tracks.
To: SmithL
in a more enlightened era, they would have been shot as train robbers.
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:10:30 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: pissant
The politically correct term is “French youths.”
To: elpinta
"What is next, ban rocks and bottles?"Shame on you for suggesting such a thing - however I do believe rocks and bottles should be registered....../ sarc
To: SmithL
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:22:10 AM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: neodad
How absurd these kids can commit savage acts of violence but they need to be “protected” by not having their names released.
This is a scary story. I don’t understand though if this wasn’t a regular stop, how could a conductor have been threatened. I thought all the train doors were kept closed. When it began to look like an attack, they should have just taken off. Maybe the conductors and engineers ought to start carrying tasers at least.
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:31:11 AM PDT
by
TNCMAXQ
To: SmithL
Thugs. They should be treated as such. Welcome to jail.
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:32:22 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
To: SmithL
It’s the Engineer’s fault for getting in the way
of those innocent rock throwing young people
were simply out to have a good time. / sarc
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:34:31 AM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: SmithL
Hmmm...if the train had kept moving at, say, 5-10 mph, I bet the “yutes” would’ve gotten out of the way!
To: CindyDawg
I rode a train from Boston to Florida a few years ago. It was hell. the crime on the train and around the train was unbelievable. Took me through the lousiest parts of every city too.
Funny in Maine recently I heard that the Portland to Boston run is an unqualified success. The entire thing is supported by grants and federal monies and would be dead on the vine with them.
It competes directly with immaculate buses in our area that go directly where a passenger wants to arrive, the airport or South station.
Sometimes leftists make no sense with my moneies.
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posted on
04/19/2007 8:41:15 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(.The Muzzies are hanging us with the rope we paid out to the leftists.)
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