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German police arrest man over high-speed rail tampering
BBC ^
| 03/21/2020
| BBC
Posted on 03/22/2020 4:08:21 PM PDT by aimhigh
A man in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly loosening bolts on a high-speed railway track. The stretch of track affected was just before a bridge outside Frankfurt.
A train driver noticed "something unusual" while crossing the bridge early on Friday. Several trains had already passed over the section before the issue was discovered. Rail operator Deutsche Bahn described the incident as "sabotage". . . .
According to German news site Der Spiegel, the rails were five centimetres further apart than usual. This could have caused trains to derail and even send them plunging off the bridge.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: asylu; asylum; europe; immigration; migration; rail; refugees; terrorism
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To: moose07
5 cm further apart That's two inches, for those with a recent government education.
ML/NJ
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:27:17 PM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: grey_whiskers
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To: wally_bert
> It couldnt be Hogan, Newkirk, Carter, Kinch, or LeBeau. <
It could be LeBeau. Robert Clary is still with us. But he’s 94 years old. Maybe thats why the bolts were only loosened, and not removed.
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:37:07 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
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To: aimhigh
In a statement, prosecutors said the man is "strongly suspected of having removed bolts on 80 metres (260 feet) of the rail on a bridge between Cologne and Frankfurt". I've ridden the high speed train on that route multiple times.
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:37:15 PM PDT
by
GaryCrow
To: Mark17
They’ll say the perp had ‘mental issues’.
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:38:53 PM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
To: Leaning Right
Being a concentration camp survivor, he’d almost have a legitimate beef with the Jerrys at one time.
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:39:23 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Spend like you were going to the electric chair!)
To: wally_bert
I could have used Hans(Schultz), and Wilhelm(Klink).
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:40:22 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children.)
To: aimhigh
Trains are a core means of transport in Germany...and they’re incredibly insecure. You just get on one just like a bus, with your luggage which nobody checks. It’s ripe for jihadi’s. I’m surprised they’ve not experienced more attacks already.
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:42:37 PM PDT
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: 17th Miss Regt
Too bad Germany does not have a death penalty. They sort of overused it in the 1930s and 1940s...
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:46:21 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: aimhigh
A man in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly loosening bolts on a high-speed railway track. A man in Germany... named Mohammed?!
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:49:08 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: aimhigh
A man in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly loosening bolts on a high-speed railway track.
So it was more than just putting a pfennig on the track ...
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:52:55 PM PDT
by
x
To: EvilCapitalist
Wolfgang, Werner, Helmut, ... and these days, Mohammed.
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posted on
03/22/2020 4:54:02 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Every election, more or less, is an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
To: aimhigh
Nice description. “A man”
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posted on
03/22/2020 5:12:12 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: aimhigh
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posted on
03/22/2020 5:33:10 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: moose07
That isnt just loosening some bolts to achieve that amount of road spread.He probably removed the bolts completely. And then a couple of trains had driven over that area of tracks. If each train pushed each track out about 1 cm in both directions then you might get those results. Extrapolating, after a few more trains spread the tracks a bit more you get the derailment.
To: 17th Miss Regt
Thankfully he didn’t do it in summer. The temperature is mild at the moment.
Continuous Welded Rail gets a life of it’s own during temperature extremes.
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posted on
03/22/2020 6:54:48 PM PDT
by
moose07
(DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Life really does begin at forty. Until then, you are just doing research.)
To: aimhigh
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posted on
03/22/2020 6:55:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Leaning Right
Robert Clary is still with us.He lost his whole family in The Holocaust.
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posted on
03/22/2020 6:56:34 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
I once read a biography of Clary. One thing he said was that most people are not good. So cherish the ones who are. That always stuck with me.
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posted on
03/22/2020 7:01:45 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
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To: moose07
5 centimeters—— is 1.96 Inches. 2 inches on the spread of a high speed rails, damned deadly.
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posted on
03/22/2020 8:59:42 PM PDT
by
John S Mosby
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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