Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains. @CBSLA pic.twitter.com/JvNF4UVy2K
— John Schreiber (@johnschreiber) January 13, 2022
Missing a package? Shipment delayed? Maybe your package is among the thousands we found discarded along the tracks. This is but one area thieves have targeted trains. We were told this area was just cleaned up 30 days ago so what you see is all within the last month. @CBSLA pic.twitter.com/43002DPyZa
— John Schreiber (@johnschreiber) January 13, 2022
How far will our society's breakdown go before the American people say "ENOUGH!" and mean it?
The problem is that the train cars are never locked, they're merely fitted with "seals"... and the seals can be removed with a pair of plyers.
ReplyDeleteAs kids, we used to break into train cars all the time.
FJ,
DeleteTo the same extent as now?
Getting caught by a railroad cop was not advisable when I was a young punk like FJ apparently was. ;) But honestly it was a low-key fear, looking back. I grew up near a rail yard, where trains would stop long enough for graffiti taggers to paint elaborate multi-colored works without getting busted.
DeleteI never broke into a box car, but caboose cars were fun if you could get a case of flares and [redacted] to make bombs with.
Ah, youth.
Most of my liquor purchases in high school were from a guy on the football team that lived near a beer distributor who supplied us for $5 per case by breaking into railcars.
DeleteThe only things my friends and I ever took from a railway car was a toilet seat... which to this day I have no idea why my friend took. I suppose he took it because he could...
DeleteMost of the time we had no clue what was in the cars until after we went in... which probably explains all the opened box cartons in the pictures. It's a crime of "opportunity".
DeleteBoth of my grandfathers were railroad workers, so I had a strong flying leather belt to ass cheek deterrent not to get caught doing anything too egregious with railroad cargo. There were a few times growing up that a derailment or cargo spill they were called out on would grace us with brand name breakfast cereal or better dog food for the pets. To this day I can't stand Froot Loops cereal. ;)
DeleteThe other concern with burglarizing a box car was encountering a hobo, which there were plenty of post-Vietnam, for some reason.
My dad told me he robbed slow moving coal cars as a kid, as did his friends. Throw the coal over and carry it home to grateful parents, especially grandpa who had mined it.
DeleteIt’s no different today than it was when Butch Cassidy was robbing trains. Most folk back then didn’t care — it was a Union-Pacific problem. Besides, or so the argument goes, the insurance companies will make good on any losses and in any case, what can “society” do about it? Dude, if “smash and grab” is good for blacks, why a little sugar for our brown-tinted brothers and sisters too?
ReplyDeleteThis has to be racism or climate change related right?
ReplyDeleteYea, how much will people put up with in these democrat run hellholes. A lot more than we think I'd say.
America is turning into one big "no go zone." - Make train robbing a federal crime the same with car jacking with no less than a five or ten year sentence and see how fast this stops.
ReplyDeleteCome on, now Bunks, you know better. It isn’t politically correct to arrest folks for robbing trains or banks or clothing stores. Besides, the FBI has a full plate with arresting mouthy parents at school board meetings.
DeleteIt is a federal crime already. This is a railroad security jobs don't pay worth a spit issue. Logistic slowdowns keeping trains at depots (and ships waiting to port and unload for that matter) is adding to the problem with trains sitting stationary and unguarded for so long.
DeletePaging Mr. Pinkerton.
DeleteSo you want skulls cracked? Coz that's how skulls get cracked lol
Delete"Make it a federal crime..." And take this nation one step farther away from being the republic the founders created. Eliminate local police forces and have us all policed by the FBI. I'm glad I'm as old as I am and will not live to see this nation get to where it is going.
DeleteJayhawk:
DeleteI'm glad I'm as old as I am and will not live to see this nation get to where it is going.
I say the same abouot myself all the time!
Our society suffers from a lack of skull cracking. Also from a lack of ass whipping with a belt. Which I got on many occasions.
ReplyDeleteSomebody's and I hopped a boxcar for the fun of it, it got going too fast, and we couldn't jump off until the next town. 13 mi walk back to town
SF,
DeleteOur society suffers from a lack of skull cracking. Also from a lack of ass whipping with a belt.
No kidding!
AOW,
DeleteThis is bedlam. It reminds me of the wild, wild west. Smash and grab in high end stores, looting, robbing civilians, USPS workers throwing out tons of mail over the holidays and Amazon workers entrusted to deliver packages instead steal them.
What has happened in this nation that people think they can just go out there and rob like that? Yeah, I know, liberal judges and prosecutors. No fear of God or the law.
We are living in Sodom and Gomorrah.
THIS CHAPS MY HIDE! Absolutely despicable.