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Amtrak Passenger Stabbed While Sleeping (Perp apprehended after jumping from train)
The National Terror Alert Response Center ^ | September 3, 2008

Posted on 09/05/2008 7:50:24 AM PDT by Stoat

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To: Stoat

When did it become the drivers job to fight with mentally unbalanced passengers. If you don’t care enough about your own health to train to protect yourself, why should the driver. Carry a sidearm. Learn how to use it first.

Self responsibility, something socialists refuse to acknowledge exists.


21 posted on 09/05/2008 10:09:46 AM PDT by B4Ranch ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you"--John Steinbeck)
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When did it become the drivers job to fight with mentally unbalanced passengers.

It never has been nor did I intend to suggest that it was. Given the admittedly sparse details provided in the article, other avenues are suggested as possibilities, particularly given the very long timeframe involved such as having police meet the bus en-route far sooner or pulling over and stopping and emptying the bus of the other passengers.  Not having more details and not having been there it's difficult to offer concrete suggestions, but allowing an immediate life threat to exist for such a very long time naturally makes one want to think of other options.

 If you don’t care enough about your own health to train to protect yourself, why should the driver. Carry a sidearm. Learn how to use it first.

Self responsibility, something socialists refuse to acknowledge exists.

Agreed.

22 posted on 09/05/2008 11:27:46 AM PDT by Stoat
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