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Posted on 04/23/2002 8:58:52 PM PDT by Tylertoo

Lots of train accidents........... or are they?

Flordia California Chicago Detroit


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1 posted on 04/23/2002 8:58:52 PM PDT by Tylertoo
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To: Tylertoo
Train accidents happen all the time. It's the News Nazis that decide if you'll hear about it.
2 posted on 04/23/2002 9:07:12 PM PDT by My Identity
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To: Tylertoo
A radio host here in CA said today "President Bush is having a better week this week, at least the train derailments are happening on time".

Michael Savage
The Savage Nation
KFI 640 AM
4pm to unk (I can only listen on way home from work)

3 posted on 04/23/2002 9:11:41 PM PDT by cd jones
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To: Tylertoo
I saw a fender-bender in the Wal-Mart parking lot this afternoon.
Young kid backed out of his parking spot without looking where he was going and smacked into a shopping cart.
4 posted on 04/23/2002 9:17:46 PM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Tylertoo
We must regulate trains. There are too many train wrecks. We must do this for the children. </ idiocy>
5 posted on 04/23/2002 9:20:00 PM PDT by roachie
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To: Willie Green
We had a private plane crash into a fence near a building in Louisville today. They said it was an accident.
6 posted on 04/23/2002 9:24:33 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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They said it was an accident.

Probably. But one can never be sure about those Wal-Mart shopping carts.
I think they place them in hazardous locations on purpose to drum up sales for their new used car business.

7 posted on 04/23/2002 9:30:12 PM PDT by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
Used car business?
8 posted on 04/23/2002 9:33:44 PM PDT by LurkerNoMore!
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To: LurkerNoMore!
Yep!

Hot off the press today: Wal-Mart Test Drives Used Car Business

Apparently there's a good market for used cars developing in Houston.
They can't get new ones outa Detroit because the trains keep jumping the tracks.

9 posted on 04/23/2002 9:38:32 PM PDT by Willie Green
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Whoa. You were serious!

I wonder how many of those used cars were partially under water when Houston was flooding.

10 posted on 04/23/2002 9:49:24 PM PDT by LurkerNoMore!
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To: cd jones
"President Bush is having a better week this week, at least the train derailments are happening on time".

I read somewhere that under Moussilini, the trains weren't any more punctual than under any other leader; what was different was that the press never made any mention of them ever being late.

11 posted on 04/23/2002 9:51:17 PM PDT by supercat
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I read several years ago that the unions cut such a deal with Amtrak that it could never be a money making endeavor. There has been some talk of shutting it down because of the money it loses. Part of the union contract, as I read it, said that any union member laid off would receive 6 years salary as severence pay. Could that have anything to do with all these accidents, trying to force a shutdown and layoffs and a 6 year lumpsum settlement?
12 posted on 04/23/2002 11:26:01 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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