Posted on 11/07/2005 7:24:36 PM PST by Sam Cree
CAMARILLO, Calif. – A man jumped onto the top of Amtrak Pacific Surfliner No. 768 from a highway overpass in Camarillo on Thursday, according to an Associated Press story and published in the San Diego Union-Tribune. The man, Juan Lopez, 33, of Camarillo, was arrested farther down the line by Ventura County sheriff's deputies who swooped in by helicopter. Lopez made the 20-foot leap at about 9 a.m., authorities said. Camarillo is 13 miles east of Ventura. Train 768 operates from San Luis Obispo to San Diego.
"At this point the train starts pulling out and the witnesses see Mr. Lopez standing on top of the train waving to everyone in the parking lot," Deputy Julie Novak told KCAL-TV Los Angeles.
The Amtrak engineer, unaware Lopez was on top of the train, continued south to Somis. A helicopter then dropped deputies onto the train.
Novak said that Lopez was still on top of the train when the deputies arrived at Somis. Uncooperative and not following their orders, Lopez was distracted by deputies on the ground while others on top of the train snuck up behind him. It was then they discovered Lopez had a broken ankle. He was restrained and taken to Pleasant Valley Hospital Medical Center.
How's your ankle?
Everything's illegal anymore. Tom Sawyer would be in prison if he had lived today.
Huck Finn would be way in prison!
But yeah, I agree...we could really use an amendment that would require Congress to repeal 2 laws for every one that they pass, for maybe the next 100 years or so.
I was wondering about that.
Maybe it had to get out of the way of another train
Ventura County and Santa Barbara County Ping!
(Let me know if you want on/off this list)
How many bottles of MD20/20 were consumed prior to the jump.
Lopez HAD to have had somebody filming this!
What are you trying to say?
thanks for the great s. connery 'great train robbery' pic. I doubt that culprit looked or acted the same.
'Meth' must be a terrible thing caue it makes you do 'stuff'.
One of my favorite movies...going to agitate for the kids to get it for me for Chanukah.
OH OH OH OH OH!.. I KNOW! PICK ME!!!
Undocumented train-jumper, perhaps?
Yep, my dad was named Alfredo Sanchez and he was as legal as it comes. Don't let spanish surnames fool you. One of the big republicans in Ventura County has the last name of "Becerra".
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