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Are wackos still ranting about that stupid truck/train "conspiracy" at Crozet? Am I going to have to post all the graphics from the weeks of research I did into that incident? Does idiocy never die???? :-{

It's over!

The truck driver has been tried --- and the answer was, Marijuana-addled stupidity on the part of the truck driver!

The doofus drove around the end of one signal gate, angled across the tracks, tried to go around the end of the other gate -- and almost made it -- except he came face-to-face with a big mailbox on a 4" steel post. Then he stopped, with the left rear corner of the rear trash loader bucket still extending out over one rail.

That corner of the loader bucket is what the train hit.

This photo pretty much tells the whole story:

The train hit the loader bucket, knocking it and the trash body off of the truck frame. They tumbled in the general direction the train was moving, wiped out the little railroad signal hut, and wound up with its top facing the camera.

Notice that the loader bucket was smashed up and right -- by impact with its left rear corner.

The chassis + cab of the truck was knocked forward over the mailbox post, and rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. (You can see the arc of ruts where the wheels slewed around.)

There's lots more detail in that photo and others I have available -- but that's the story of the "Big Crozet, VA 'Conspiracy'" -- in a single frame.

No conspiracy -- just dope-addled stupidity...

I'll be back after an hour or so to "mop up" this mess...

TXnMA

WOO HOO! Poland’s conservative, anti-Muslim immigration Law & Justice Party wins big in Parliamentary elections

OCTOBER 14, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM

So big, in fact, they will not have to form a coalition government with opposing parties. In a triumph of traditionalism, Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) Party has increased its vote share in national elections, despite being hounded by the European Union and the global leftists.

Breitbart The populist-leaning national conservative party, which is pursuing a policy programme “far from neoliberalism, and equally far from socialism”, has secured enough votes for an absolute majority in Poland’s Sejm — equivalent to Britain’s House of Commons — and cleared the soft-left globalist Civic Platform/Civic Coalition (PO/KO) founded by neoliberal EU Council President Donald Tusk by a comfortable margin.

The new right-populist Confederation of Freedom and Independence, or Konfederacja, of which the colourful and controversial Janusz Korwin-Mikke is a co-founder, also made something of a surprise breakthrough on its platform of tax cuts, staunch euroscepticism, and restoration of capital punishment for the most dangerous criminals, surpassing the 5 per cent threshold required to earn a number of parliamentary representatives — and performing even better among Polish students.

Moar at link https://barenakedislam.com/2019/10/14/woo-hoo-polands-conservative-anti-muslim-immigration-law-justice-party-wins-big-in-parliamentary-elections/

The lead locomotive was partially derailed. One of the truck passengers died; the truck driver was hospitalized in serious condition.

And Minnesota's own "Mr. Right," then-Representative, and now candidate for US Senate, Jason Lewis, suffered a concussion.