Crew on Paris-bound train barricaded themselves in their staffroom..locked the door as Kalashnikov

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3206426/U-S-Marines-armed-gunman-onboard-high-speed-train-Amsterdam-Paris.html ^

[Oratam]

Zoot-alors! Vite! Vite! Tout equipe de train a la chambre de securite!

[Twinkie]

Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant only taste of death but once.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It wasn’t the first time the American military saved Europeans. Think the Barbary wars up till WW2.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Well, I just heard some kids in Paris were playing with bottle rockets and France surrendered.

[5th MEB]

AAAHH; spoken like a true Frenchman.

[Lorianne]

“We were incredibly lucky to have American soldiers with us. I pay homage to their heroic courage and thank them. Without them, we all would be dead.”

Or speaking German.

[jmacusa]

Three American Marines took this a$$hole out. One was wounded doing it. Marines. No Better friend, No worse enemy.

[Teacher317]

Better to block the door, let terrorists kill a few passengers than to let the terrorists commandeer the actual train and plow it into a Paris railroad station at 250 mph.

Spoke like a true coward... and someone with no idea what they are talking about. The train may run off the track, or run into another train, but it will not run into a station. Also, the Thalys top speed is about 180, not 250.

(In its two collisions recently, in 2008 and 2011, only one death was reported.)

But you make the point anyway. You, like the crew and most Frenchmen, prefer to run and hide and let people die. Real men, like American soldiers and a good Brit, prefer to confront danger and try to save lives... which they clearly did.

[11th_VA]

Cheese eating surrender monkeys!

My first thought !!! LOL !!!

[Lopeover]

The staff should have access to guns or like an armed air Marshall on board.

[cripplecreek]

Sorry make that the 113th.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Stone was Air force. Skarlatos was National Guard and Sandler was a college student.

[bgill]

So much for customer service.

[Kozy]

Reminds me of a story that I heard years ago. An old vet was returning to France to see the country that he had helped liberate when he was a lad. As they were approaching Olay as is the custom, visa cards are handed out and passengers fill them out. When the official came to the old man, he saw the cards were blank. He told the man in the only way french can speak, condensing and aloof, to the old man that he had to fill out the entry papers. The old vet asked, “why?” The official said that everyone entering France had to fill out these forms. Well the old vet said that the last time he entered France he didn't have to fill out any papers. The indigent french official said “impossible!” Where was the entry port? The old vet said, “ Normandy” The passengers erupted into applause.

Nothing change about the french.

[rey]

Didn’t NYC Transit Police lock themselves in when there was a shooting on a subway train to avoid the shooter?

[txrefugee]

If this were America, at least 50 passengers would have a video of what happened and it would have been on YouTube within minutes. That’s a good thing.

[uncitizen]

At least they didn't surrender....😕

[Kirkwood]

I’m not sure why you are calling FReepers idiots. If the Americans hadn’t been there, no door would have stopped the terrorist. I read in one article that the muslim had a bag of 30 loaded magazines with him. Using your hide like a coward approach, it would have been turned into a death train.

[Blood of Tyrants]

America saves France’s butt again.

[skeeter]

Thanks to our immigration non-policy these guys and their families will need to watch their backs here at home for awhile.