[fungoking]

I thought he didn't remember anything...my girlfriend's Morgan Fairchild, yeah...that's the ticket.

[SoConPubbie]

So? Why does this matter? The train was still going twice the posted speed on a corner.

[Paladin2]

Social Justice at work.

[sport]

Soon they will be reports of space aliens and flying saucers on the track. They are desperately trying to keep their protected and privileged one out of trouble. Don’t be surprised at what you hear next.

[Gaffer]

So. A trespasser is the reason to speed up to 100 MPH. This is diversionist BS.

[old and tired]

It’s North Philadelphia! There’s all kinds of bums walking around by the tracks. Kids too. It’s not unusual to see someone.

[RckyRaCoCo]

...was wearing a Tea Party t-shirt, in black-face and spit at the engineer...next?

[Mastador1]

Even if someone threw a brick, the train should have been travelling at 60 mph and the engineer would have been well out of range quickly, so what was the reason to accelerate to 100+mph?

[circlecity]

I think this whole object striking the windshield is just a red herring. The most obvious cause, given the facts of excessive speed we do know, it that the engineer was either hung over or texting and not paying attention. By the time he looked up it was too late.

[ExTxMarine]

I heard this morning that they are now saying that the audio recordings and verbal discussions heard on them do NOT make mention nor any reference to anything striking the train.

So, if someone shot at or threw something through your windshield, wouldn’t you have made a statement or commotion or mention of that while speaking with your dispatch/controller...SOMEONE?!?! At least, a verbal exclamation like, “Holy crap, something hit the train!” SOMETHING! But, alas, there is NOTHING on the recordings!

I’m willing to bet that NOTHING hit that train, the notion that something hit it is just MSM/Political spin to take the focus off of the actual engineers’ FAILURES!!

[Proud2BeRight]

Next the trespasser will look like Bush.

[McGruff]

I believe the Amtrack train had a camera on the front. If there was a similar incident it would be documented.

[VTenigma]

Just stop (not you Abby), the crash had nothing to due with a thrown object.

[tophat9000]

Look...lets start with facts....
1. Was the train traveling at a 100+ mph going in to a curve posted as max 50 mph?
2. Why did the engineer go in to the curve at twice+ the posted safe speed?
3. Is that curve posted as max 50 because over that the train is likely to derail?
4. Did the train derail?

All the rest is BS unless someone is CYA why they had an incompetent engineer..or has an agenda build on faulthoods...

where is the NTSB analyzes of this crash.?

[smokingfrog]

FBI agents performed forensic work on a grapefruit-sized fracture on the left side of the Amtrak locomotive’s windshield, and the National Transportation Safety Board said they found no evidence of any damage that could have been caused by a firearm.

http://www.aol.com/article/2015/05/18/investigators-usure-anything-struck-train-before-derailment/21184761/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D1216893012

[Jack Hammer]

No doubt that’s why he ACCELERATED to over one hundred miles per hour when the train was rated for only half that.

Or maybe someone threw a rock at the train and knocked it off the tracks...

or maybe someone fired a gun...

or a howitser...

or a nuke...

Yeah, that’s it - it must have been a nuke; one of those nukes that leaves no traces.

Or maybe someone just made a scary face. Or blew on it. Or maybe it was just the wind.

Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with the fact that the driver was going twice the specified velocity into a curve.

After all, he’s a homosexual, and American homosexuals never do anything incorrectly. It’s in all the newspapers, so I know it’s true.