Train Robbers

[Ben]

Well, train thieves. I guess it makes sense, but I didn't know that this was such a prevalent thing:

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2022/01/15/must-see-videos-detail-the-underreported-problem-of-package-theft-from-trains-and-the-bs-response-from-the-das-office/

I'm actually not sure which sickens me more - the thievery or the litter. Who could live in that hellhole?

[WLJ]

Welcome to Venezuela America

[WLJ]

Kristine Lazar
@CBSLAKristine
Letter from @UnionPacific to @LADAOffice on rise in train robberies. 90 containers breached a day, theft up 356% says UP. UP considering rerouting it’s trains out of LA county. UP asks DA to be harder on theives. Says they’re back out on the tracks a day after released.
@CBSLA

https://twitter.com/CBSLAKristine/status/1482115852216385538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1482120875180580866%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2022%2F01%2F15%2Fmust-see-videos-detail-the-underreported-problem-of-package-theft-from-trains-and-the-bs-response-from-the-das-office%2F

 

[fifth_column]

Impressive, but I wonder if any of the heists were done under the noses of twenty trained Alliance feds.

[RocketMan]

Impressive, but I wonder if any of the heists were done under the noses of twenty trained Alliance feds.

The Alliance feds weren't there to guard FedEx and Amazon shipments, so they probably didn't care.

[Jim147]

Some boys in Chicago scored a bunch of new guns off a rail car just a few years ago.

[MechAg94]

I think the comment about rerouting trains around that county are what they will have to do.  Also, stop using shipping ports in that area if that is involved. 


This involves interstate commerce so the Feds could get involved if they cared to do so.

[Parker Dean]

I think the comment about rerouting trains around that county are what they will have to do.  Also, stop using shipping ports in that area if that is involved. 


This involves interstate commerce so the Feds could get involved if they cared to do so.

I think that would be about impossible though. Just to the south and west of Lincoln Heights is a major railyard for loading containers and no doubt where trucks take the containers from the port. From that railyard there a double rail line that basically parallels Alhambra and Mission to the south and east to Colton where there's a switching yard and from there trains turn northish and parallel the old Route 66 through the Cajon Pass, which would be a choke point no matter what.

Since this is a lot of infrastructure and established connections what I think they'll do is harden the line against intrusion with wall, wire, and patrols where the trains are slow or stopped. Otherwise they'd have to move the loading yard over by San Bernardino, if there's enough level ground for that, and truck the containers from the port to there.

[WLJ]

Time was if you messed with the mail car you got shot or if captured hanged.
Now they give you a free warm meal and cozy place to sleep overnight then let you back out in the morning to do it again.

[230RN]

     

Pic credit in Properties

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Simple solution: Hire people to ride shotgun. I bet it would be cheaper than the cost of the losses. And, it has the added advantage of attrition.

A good slogan would be the good old stand-by, "You loot, we shoot."

Woody

[230RN]

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[Fly320s]

Just start shooting the thieves.  They sure aren't scared of the police; maybe they will be scared of the gun.

[Bogie]

I suspect we're gonna see some mercenaries in the near future... Deniable mercenaries....

[Pb]

Just start shooting the thieves.  They sure aren't scared of the police; maybe they will be scared of the gun.

Then you will probably go to prison.

[Bogie]

"Bobby, at 10pm tonight, you turn off all the cameras and recorders... Just trip over that plug or something, okay?"
 
Word would get out. Don't call the cops. The crooks likely won't. Silenced .22LR or something bigger and subsonic, and... Make the bodies disappear. Just make sure nobody involved will talk.

[Andiron]

Bet it was those dastardly White supremacists again.  They're above the law,  untouchable!

[WLJ]

Bet it was those dastardly White supremacists again.  They're above the law,  untouchable!

Trend now to blame any and all crime by minorities on white suppression of that minority.

White crime = White supremacy
Minority crime = White supremacy

[Andiron]

Trend now to blame any and all crime by minorities on white suppression of that minority.

White crime = White supremacy
Minority crime = White supremacy

Or "teens"

This country has a criminal demographic problem that no one dares mention.

[Bogie]

Found out today that someone went in my store last night, told the counter guy he wanted to buy a radiator, and when he went to fetch it, him and his buddy rolled a cherry picker engine hoist out the front door and into a pickup truck... Bam gone...
 

[BobR]

"Bobby, at 10pm tonight, you turn off all the cameras and recorders... Just trip over that plug or something, okay?"
 
Word would get out. Don't call the cops. The crooks likely won't. Silenced .22LR or something bigger and subsonic, and... Make the bodies disappear. Just make sure nobody involved will talk.

Well hell, you already  have a train, stack the bodies in an empty box car and wait until you are rolling through the desert way out there and roll them out. Crude but it would work, coyotes, condors, crows etc would clean up the mess eventually.

The only problem is the only way two people can keep a secret is for one of them to be dead. 

bob

[Boomhauer]

Just start shooting the thieves.  They sure aren't scared of the police; maybe they will be scared of the gun.

I’m patiently waiting for the day we go back to vigilante justice

[Andiron]

I’m patiently waiting for the day we go back to vigilante justice

I submit that the "vigilante justice" the left hates was probably justified.  An angry mob probably got it wrong occasionally,  but I'll take that over the current catch and release BS. 

[Pb]

The original "vigilantes" were formed when no police forces existed... in CA, if I remember correctly.  They would hold informal trials before executing perps.

[MechAg94]

I submit that the "vigilante justice" the left hates was probably justified.  An angry mob probably got it wrong occasionally,  but I'll take that over the current catch and release BS.

The main issue to me is the thieves have no fear of the consequences of their actions.  That needs to be fixed somehow.