Posted on 10/31/2018 3:14:27 PM PDT by Flick Lives
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A BART rider was placed under arrest Monday after the suspect was accused of pulling out two chainsaws while on a train in the East Bay, authorities confirmed.
A BART commuter shot video that was posted on Twitter Monday afternoon that showed the man waving around a chainsaw on a train. The person posting the clip said it happened on a train traveling from Fremont to Richmond.
BART officials admitted to KPIX 5 that they had never seen anything quite like it on the transit system.
Jalina Bluford, the woman who took cell phone video of the man in action, knew something was wrong.
“I thought it was something serious. That’s why I started recording,” said Bluford.
In the clip, the suspect later identified as 47-year-old Patrick Bingham, picked up a red chainsaw and flicked the switch on it several times as he waved it in front of himself, yelling threatening comments.
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They were gas powered but without gas?
Sounds like fake bombs.
Wow - I thought the time I watched a guy get on at Orinda at 4:30 am and start unpackaging a large kitchen knife was the height of my BART years - these people have a much better story to tell! :)
I wouldn’t be filming it.
I’d be doing a George Costanza out of there.
Yes. I’m a coward.
Champion caliber.
Took first place twice in tournaments.
At least he wasn’t brandishing a semi-automatic Chihuahua.
Nasty things those semi-automatic Chihuahuas.
Was that an automatic chain saw, you know pull the trigger and it just keeps on spinning? Those also should be banned! Only the military need automatic chain saws.
SanFran Chainsaw Massacre subverted.
Nasty things those semi-automatic Chihuahuas.
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Don’t want to be anywhere near anyone unboxing a chihuahua. Them’s scary!
Bay Area Rapid Trainsaw
This clown will be a big hit in jail tonight. (That is not a good thing)
If he had three Chainsaws they would think he was a Juggler and put money in his Chainsaw Case.
believe it or not, it is actually safer out on the highways in the 3 hour traffic jams with all the frustrated, drugged-up, drunk, angry, and aggressive idiot drivers
BART police almost never do anything to make their trains or stations or parking lots safe... why? because the primary county district attorneys are commie-leftist political hacks who will probably just refuse to prosecute
and everyone knows it, especially the thugs, druggies, drunks, panhandlers, and rapists on BART
Yeah, I guess a guy w/a couple chainsaws might make you wonder if something's up.
In this case, maybe halloween. We used to use chainsaws for the trick or treaters (took the blade off).
I'm wondering how they let him on the train. Wearing a big coat maybe? A really big coat.
Then again, if it looks suspicious, it probably is.
I saw a guy doing that at Venice beach Ca. He was on a HBO show later.
The only thing that can stop a Bad Guy with a Chainsaw is a Good Guy with a Chainsaw.
Brand new gas engine chainsaws out of the box.
He can "flick the switch" all he wants, nothing is going to happen.
They are pull start saws.
Being brand new they also have empty gas and oil tanks.
But apparently he and the city numb nuts on the train, as well as the idiot "reporter" don't know that.
If the Fresno area ever got a rapid transit system, what would they name it?
I am glad someone mentioned they were in a box.
I had conjured up a scene of him pulling a chainsaw out of his belt and brandishing it THEN pulling a second one out.
Be more interesting if his finger were on the ‘trigger’ when he was pulling them out of his pants.
The headline may well have read.
“Man perfroms self-circumcision on Bart Train”
Really good one. I salute you.
Be more interesting if his finger were on the ‘trigger’ when he was pulling them out of his pants.
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The old stuffing the chainsaw in the pants routine. People generally only make that mistake once.
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