I suspect Jesse James Jackson and his sidekick, Al "The Mouth" Sharpshooter.
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Posted on 04/17/2007 9:22:52 PM PDT by SmithL
The engineer of an Amtrak Capitol Corridor train was seriously injured Monday night in West Sacramento after a group of people forced the train to stop, dragged the engineer from the train and assaulted him with rocks and bottles, according to Capitol Corridor officials.
The attack occurred as the train from the Bay Area neared the I Street Bridge to Sacramento's rail station and slowed for a signal, said Eugene Skoropowski, managing director of the Capitol Corridor, said. A group of people stood on the tracks to block the train, which stopped. When the engineer went downstairs and opened the door, he was dragged off the train and assaulted, Skoropowski said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I like the way you think.
San Francisco and Sacramento journalists will be standing by to convert the resultant press handouts into news copy.
There, problem solved.
Sounds like a gang initiation to me.
The words “group of people” deliberately hide something. I’d like to know what.
An Amway engineer would have deserved a beating.
In the Soclialist tongue "A group of people" should translate to English as "barbarians"?
“Think the next time they try it the engineer will stop?”
One or two times more is all it will take before the Pinkertons start riding the train.
I wouldn’t even blow the horn.
Eyes
What was their religion, and who is its prophet?
Ain't gonna happen. The engineer would have to get permission to make a reverse movement from the dispatcher and will need someone on the back, usually on the ground, to protect the movement. The engineer did the right thing by stopping but getting off the train wasn't the best action. The area that this occurred is in a rough part of town. Usually the worse that happens there are rocks and stuff put on the tracks. They do need better police protection in that area and in areas in the SF Bay Area.
A group of people stood on the tracks to block the train...
Missing Parenthetical Explanations Ping
Hey now, you're gonna get your mouth washed out with L.O.C.® if you keep that up. (LOL!)
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1. We don't need no stinkin' parentheses.
2. Not to worry. The Group of People has Sparked a Probe (see #31).
Why? Did he cut off a lowrider in traffic? Blow his horn during a call to prayer? Fail to slow down for his graffiti tags? Questions, questions...
I emailed the writer of this yesterday (excerpted: "However, the story seemed very incomplete. Who were the people, why did they stop a train, why did they assault the engineer, is this a usual occurence??"
I received an answer today. Are you ready?
"At this time, nobody knows. The investigation is continuing."
This report sure leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
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