Trains Stopped After 'Highly Suspicious' Powder Found "MTA go to Hell,"

nynewsday.com ^ | July 2, 2003, 2:07 PM EDT | By Joshua Robin, Sean Gardiner and Marc Parry:

[Princeton]

"Police wearing protective chemical gear retrived a "highly suspicious" package containing brown powder and a screed against the Metropolitan Transit Authority this morning at the Canal Street 1/9 subway station, shutting down train service and sealing off the area........"

[finnman69]

someone angry about the $2.00 fare.

[Princeton]

Ping!

[hang 'em]

Let me tell you the story
Of a man named Charlie
On a tragic and fateful day
He put ten cents in his pocket,
Kissed his wife and family
Went to ride on the MTA

Charlie handed in his dime
At the Kendall Square Station
And he changed for Jamaica Plain
When he got there the conductor told him,
"One more nickel."
Charlie could not get off that train.

Chorus:
Did he ever return,
No he never returned
And his fate is still unlearn'd
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned.

Now all night long
Charlie rides through the tunnels
the station
Saying, "What will become of me?
Crying
How can I afford to see
My sister in Chelsea
Or my cousin in Roxbury?"

Charlie's wife goes down
To the Scollay Square station
Every day at quarter past two
And through the open window
She hands Charlie a sandwich
As the train comes rumblin' through.

As his train rolled on
underneath Greater Boston
Charlie looked around and sighed:
"Well, I'm sore and disgusted
And I'm absolutely busted;
I guess this is my last long ride."
{this entire verse was replaced by a banjo solo}

Now you citizens of Boston,
Don't you think it's a scandal
That the people have to pay and pay
Vote for Walter A. O'Brien
Fight the fare increase!
And fight the fare increase
Vote for George O'Brien!
Get poor Charlie off the MTA.

Chorus:
Or else he'll never return,
No he'll never return
And his fate will be unlearned
He may ride forever
'neath the streets of Boston
He's the man (Who's the man)
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man (Oh, the man)
He's the man who never returned.
He's the man who never returned.

- Kingston Trio

[Cicero]

Well, at least it's brown powder instead of the usual white powder.

[Princeton]

"Dump a briefcase full of the anthrax powder sent to Daschle on the NYC subway tracks, however, and you can kiss Manhattan goodbye. At minimum, the same goes for any of city whose economy depends on underground mass transit.

Sorry to break it to you but, like everyone else, you've been living in La-La Land in regard to this threat. The person who thought up 9-11 was very smart, very ruthless, very patient, and knew exactly what he was doing. If you think the back-end security was left to chance, well, I got news for you -- you're in for a nasty surprise."


31 posted on 10/16/2002 11:05 PM PDT by The Great Satan

[Princeton]

[Princeton]

"Well, at least it's brown powder instead of the usual white powder."


Aah, Variety - the spice of domestic terrorism.

[scab4faa]

Why don't she just hand him a dam nickel? :)

[Calvin Locke]

LOL! We kept asking the same question of a teacher in grade school that would serenade with his guitar now and then. Mid 1960s.

"Well if she gives him his lunch...nickel?"

[scab4faa]

"Only you can prevent bad folk songs" :)

[Calvin Locke]

bad folk songs

Well, yeah, but at least it has a melody and harmony.

And the order of the notes sort of makes sense.

And a lot of the lyrics are remembered.

Please contrast with what passes for music now a days.

At least what the RIAA considers product.