Posted on 02/10/2024 1:02:48 PM PST by libh8er
California cops have been left scrambling as gangs of thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard mile-long trundling freight trains to loot expensive electronic goods, high-end clothing and jewelry.
Sometimes the robbers strike while the lumbering locomotives are still moving, while others brazenly trigger the emergency brakes so that their accomplices can hack their way into the metal containers.
LA is the undisputed 'capital of cargo theft' with trains ferrying goods from the major ports, but the spate of train thefts have almost doubled across the nation since 2019.
The issue of mass cargo theft shot into focus almost three years ago, when a Union Pacific railway track was overrun with thousands upon thousands of ransacked delivery boxes.
Stunning footage captured by NBC Los Angeles in November 2021 showed the tracks littered with cardboard as opportunistic criminals picked at the scraps - before the cameraman caught a thief in action with a pair of bolt cutters.
As outrage over the thefts swept the internet - with one expecting mother in Seattle telling the outlet she was 'honestly just disgusted in human behavior' after seeing her child's car seat on the side of the tracks - photojournalist John Schrieber went to see the looting in action for himself.
He shared clips to X of abandoned packages 'as far as the eye can see' from the side of a Lincoln Heights track several months after, where he noted that thieves make an effort to target products bound for people's homes as they are more valuable than bulk items such as toilet paper.
But the episodes are far from isolated incidents.
In2022, Union Pacific claimed around 90 cargo containers were being illegally opened each day, and theft on its trains on the West Coast were up 160 percent that year.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If Trump finds himself running against Newsom...
Yep. And shoot the spray-paint vandals, too.
Brought to you by the crowd who believed that there were too many Americans in jail.
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Boy, California sure knows how to pick them.
Drugs and democrats. A society death spiral.
Obama/Biden promised to transform the USA and they have proved very successful.
Obama/Biden promised to transform the USA and they have proved very successful.
Repirations
The spray paint vandals are the only ones telling the truth about what a neighborhood is. It's an ugly truth but at least there's someone putting up such warning signs to others.
Removing the warning signs and those who put them up, makes the neighborhood more dangerous, not safer.
These pictures and thousands like them should be part of Trump’s anti-Newsom campaign.
Somehow, it’s not as romantic as Butch and Sundance in the old West — or even the British Great Train Robbers ...
California needs to add crowbars and bolt cutters to their anti-gun law list! That’ll fix it!
I remember a news report from over fifty years ago about black teen gangs looting trains going through their towns. Mike Wallace interviewed the kids who said the last thing they had looted was a car full of MEAT! But the best thing they ever looted was ...”GUNS!” and they refused to tell what they did with the guns.
Illegal aliens doing the jobs Americans won’t do.
Wasn’t there a similar article with similar photos a couple of years ago?
Gavin’s campaign poster.
Maybe boy Governor Newsom can send another 120 CHP and State Attorneys to L.A. to fight crime there too!
I disagree. Let’s shoot ‘em and find out.
Declare the trains as part of the “post.” Send Marines with live rounds, open ROE, the defend the post.
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