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Train stops to remove suspicious passenger
NEWS14.com ^ | 02/17/2009 08:10 AM | By: News 14 Carolina Web Staff

Posted on 02/17/2009 5:12:37 PM PST by Cindy

GARYSBURG, N.C. -- Amtrak officials say they removed a passenger who was behaving suspiciously from a train in North Carolina on Monday.

The Silver Star was headed to Miami from New York when it stopped in Garysburg, N.C., near N.C. 64. That happened just before 7 p.m. about 30 miles east of Rocky Mount.

Officials declined to say what the passenger was doing.

(Excerpt) Read more at news14.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: amtrak; florida; garysburg; miami; nc64; ncarolina; newyork; ny; rockymount; suspiciouspassenger; thesilverstar; train

1 posted on 02/17/2009 5:12:38 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
Officials declined to say what the passenger was doing

The dude can't be screaming "Allah is great" or "Death to the infidels!" THAT would be profiling and that is wrong...

2 posted on 02/17/2009 5:15:35 PM PST by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: Cindy

Maybe reading the Koran while sharpening a sword?


3 posted on 02/17/2009 5:16:04 PM PST by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: Cindy

Let me guess. Acting like a devil worshipping muzzie?


4 posted on 02/17/2009 5:16:17 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Cindy

Perhaps a little to much time in the bar car hitting the firewater.


5 posted on 02/17/2009 5:19:54 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: Cindy

I had to read the details, they stopped the train first.


6 posted on 02/17/2009 5:22:26 PM PST by ThomasThomas ( Accept it, there is no except after in math.)
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To: Cindy

It was me and I am very strange. They did the right thing.


7 posted on 02/17/2009 5:22:51 PM PST by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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To: John123
"The dude can't be screaming "Allah is great" or "Death to the infidels!" THAT would be profiling and that is wrong... "

Maybe he was trying to saw the heads off people?

8 posted on 02/17/2009 5:22:53 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: Cindy

EDWARDS!!!


9 posted on 02/17/2009 5:24:25 PM PST by TADSLOS
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To: ThomasThomas

LOL


10 posted on 02/17/2009 5:26:49 PM PST by windcliff
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To: Paladin2

“Maybe he was trying to saw the heads off people?”

That’s against the rules on Amtrak? It happens on Greyhound.


11 posted on 02/17/2009 5:28:35 PM PST by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions!)
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To: Cindy
UPDATE:

Disruptive passenger halts trainby Todd Wetherington and Lance Martin
Daily Herald Staff Writers

GARYSBURG - More than 200 Amtrak passengers waited four hours last night as police dogs cased a train for a bomb.

The train was stopped just short of the N.C. Highway 46/U.S. Highway 301 intersection in Garysburg after a passenger announced he was carrying a bomb.

Northampton County Emergency Management Coordinator Tim Byers said a passenger became unruly and during an altercation claimed a bomb was on the train.

~snip~

The man, whose name was not known at press deadline, was taken into custody and law enforcement reportedly found what is suspected to be either PCP or angel dust in the man's carry-on bag.

Bomb technicians and bomb-sniffing dogs from the Virginia State Police were dispatched to the scene and found no evidence of a bomb. The train was back on its way at just past 11:15 p.m., Byers said.

http://www.rrdailyherald.com/articles/2009/02/17/news/doc499b28d7c9d22658714270.txt


12 posted on 02/17/2009 5:29:57 PM PST by KS Flyover
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To: Cindy

Some years ago, we were taking that very train to Fla when it made an unscheduled stop in some town in either NC or SC. Cops came on the train, walked through our car. We weren’t stopped more than 15 minutes and away we went. They took some drunk rowdy types off. As the train pulled away, we could see them arguing with the cops.


13 posted on 02/17/2009 5:37:18 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: KS Flyover

Apparently the lesson to be learned from this is: “when transporting PCP upon your person on a train through rural North Carolina, don’t make bomb threats”.


14 posted on 02/17/2009 5:42:15 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: KS Flyover

Thanks for the update KS Flyover.
I appreciate it.


15 posted on 02/17/2009 5:45:18 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy

AMTRAK dumped off a guy who was having a diabetic reaction thirty miles from the nearest town ... suspicious I guess ... so what is their definition of suspicious activity? Is there a “No Suspicious Activity List Rule” thing that’s posted somewhere????


16 posted on 02/17/2009 5:48:37 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Who's the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?")
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To: Cindy

been on that train to orlando. great personnel. that is when i discovered why there are few blacks in airports, trains are black territory.

And our train stopped three times to deliver a criminal into polin=ce hands.


17 posted on 02/17/2009 5:51:40 PM PST by Chickensoup ("Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.")
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To: Cindy

Perhaps he was looking like he was going to rape someone (leering).


18 posted on 02/17/2009 7:30:45 PM PST by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: SkyDancer

Apparently he had PCP in his bag.


19 posted on 02/17/2009 7:32:44 PM PST by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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