Posted on 02/10/2024 1:02:48 PM PST by libh8er
California cops have been left scrambling as gangs of thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard mile-long trundling freight trains to loot expensive electronic goods, high-end clothing and jewelry.
Sometimes the robbers strike while the lumbering locomotives are still moving, while others brazenly trigger the emergency brakes so that their accomplices can hack their way into the metal containers.
LA is the undisputed 'capital of cargo theft' with trains ferrying goods from the major ports, but the spate of train thefts have almost doubled across the nation since 2019.
The issue of mass cargo theft shot into focus almost three years ago, when a Union Pacific railway track was overrun with thousands upon thousands of ransacked delivery boxes.
Stunning footage captured by NBC Los Angeles in November 2021 showed the tracks littered with cardboard as opportunistic criminals picked at the scraps - before the cameraman caught a thief in action with a pair of bolt cutters.
As outrage over the thefts swept the internet - with one expecting mother in Seattle telling the outlet she was 'honestly just disgusted in human behavior' after seeing her child's car seat on the side of the tracks - photojournalist John Schrieber went to see the looting in action for himself.
He shared clips to X of abandoned packages 'as far as the eye can see' from the side of a Lincoln Heights track several months after, where he noted that thieves make an effort to target products bound for people's homes as they are more valuable than bulk items such as toilet paper.
But the episodes are far from isolated incidents.
In2022, Union Pacific claimed around 90 cargo containers were being illegally opened each day, and theft on its trains on the West Coast were up 160 percent that year.
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Start executing these people.
Modern-Day America in a nutshell.
I think the Nazis figured out how to privide security on freight trains against everything short of Patton and the 8th Air Force.
When Trump becomes president 2 things need to happen:
1. military needs to deport every spic-ey meatball and their descendants
2. Every homeless person needs to be sent back to their home state
Without consequences, criminals are emboldened.
Seriously. Hard measures need to be taken. And politicians and media people who complain about should be subjected to Lawfare of the most extreme kind. Turn the tables.
This could have been an episode from the AMC show Breaking Bad where a train was stopped on purpose in the middle of nowhere and drained of a carload of a chemical used to may crystal meth. That was fiction, this is real and is like the movie Escape from LA.
but just think of all the ways we are enriched by this diversity
Trump needs to declare martial law and expel the invaders, while executing the traitors.
I guess porch pirates are so passe these days.
My parents used to watch that show.
How can one really tell that scene is not just your typical California homeless encampment?
You can ride the “Hiawatha Trail” bike route on the abandoned Milwaukee Road rail line in Mullan, Idaho. There are lots of historic signs along the way. One shows the train security used in WW II. Armed guards were on all the trains as well as stationed at all trestles, bridges, and tunnels.
We are fighting a two-front domestic war: one against the southern invaders and the other against organized crime of all types.
It’s long past time we had “shoot to kill” standing orders. Public safety and tranquility will not be restored until then.
After time served on prison gangs cleaning this stuff up, every single little pit of paper, plastic and other disgusting detritis.
Loot? Shoot.
I did see a key word but not in the right context, ‘shot’ .
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