Bigger reward offered in Lugoff train derailment

The State ^ | AUGUST 25, 2017 | RACHAEL MYERS LOWE

[Gamecock]

[Gamecock]

I hate to be that guy, but are there any members of the religion of pieces in the area?

Or perhaps just some local drunk taking his bulldozer for a moonlight drive?

[Gamecock]

Ping

[PeterPrinciple]

Investigators believe that the train hit a yellow bulldozer that was left on the tracks,

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Good detective work.............................

[MagnoliaB]

The dozer doesn’t have any type of identifying numbers on it that can be traced?

[libertylover]

She refers to it repeatedly as an “accident”. It wasn’t. A “crash” would obviously be accurate, and possibly “sabotage”, but not an “accident”.

[combat_boots]

http://www.businessinsider.com/al-qaeda-published-18-page-guide-on-how-to-derail-trains-in-europe-and-america-2017-8

[combat_boots]

https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/train-jihad.html/

[combat_boots]

About al Qosi

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article1941155.html

[jonascord]

Antifa at Evergreen College, and the Eco-terrorists in Washington state have been throwing around plans to derail coal trains, by laying concrete bumps across the main lines...

You don't suppose...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"The dozer doesn’t have any type of identifying numbers on it that can be traced?"

Not much of a help. It's easy to start a bulldozer and one could have been parked nearby. Even if the bulldozer has a functioning key-type ignition switch, it is simple to bypass. I grew up in a rural area and we kids, 9 and 10 years old, used to take bulldozers for a "spin" every now and then, LOL
 

[JohnG45]

... and we kids, 9 and 10 years old, used to take bulldozers for a "spin" every now and then, LOL

Where were you on the night of August 5, 2017?

Do you have someone to corroborate your whereabouts?

[TXnMA]

Looks sorta like a "Bobcat" type of front loader, to me -- but, that's after being hit and dragged down the tracks a ways...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Where were you on the night of August 5, 2017?"

What's funny is that for all the mischief and pranks we pulled as boys back in the day, we never did anything destructive. We had "fun" but it would never occur to us to do anything destructive (except to model aircraft and battleships!).

[Tucker39]

They all have Serial Numbers. Might even have a decal on it from some construction company, or SC DOT. They can trace it IF they WANT to.

[Sequoyah101]

You don’t just misplace a bull dozer. The things are pretty easy to start up without a key. Especially the older ones. Firing one up and running it around is pretty easy but loading it up, hauling it off and hiding it is not. You can haul one around for a bit pretty easy since the description is pretty generic. “Be on the lookout for a yellow Caterpillar D-6C last seen on a lowboy.”

Our Sheriff was out one day with a drone searching the woods and isolated fields for a stolen bull dozer he was pretty sure was stashed within about a mile radius. Couldn’t see it. Hidden well or not there.

[Sequoyah101]

The question isn’t who it belongs to or where it came from. The question is who put it on the tracks.

[MagnoliaB]

You don’t think there may be some clues or people to question from where it was taken?

[Gamecock]

I beg to differ.

There may be some evidence at the location from which it was taken.

[Sequoyah101]

Oh good grief. Finding where it was taken from is easy, just follow the tracks. As to evidence about who took it from where it was taken perhaps but doubtful. Somebody just walked or drove by at night, fired the thing up and drove it onto the tracks and left. Random.

You can hardly ever find or fix random.