CRIME Thousands of Stolen Packages Cover Downtown LA Train Tracks

Samuel Adams

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jward said:
Shouldn't there be a massive study on environmental impact being announced, or at least fines for that littering?? Those things still matter, don't they? :shr: :rolleyes:
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Only to EPA, and that only regarding small businesses and unincorporated land “owners”.

Environmentalism in America is big business’ bought and paid for scourge used only to drive out smalltime competition.

I doubt the railroads need worry about a visit from them......
 
33dInd

33dInd

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I always heard that stealing from train cars was a felony.
Don't know if its true but if so where's the FBI

Of course I know that answer. Not to be found
 
33dInd

33dInd

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Caplock50 said:
I can vouch for the fact that the West was never as 'wild' as the movies show it to have been. Most of that 'wildness' was 'shows' put on by the locals to 'traumatize' the eastern 'sugarfoots' taking a break from their long train rides. I had a grand uncle who was dragged, fighting and kicking and screaming, from his jail cell...and hanged from a tree next to the train station...about 12 different times. The male 'tinderfeet' would 'mess their pants', while the women would faint away. Now, I'm not saying those 'acts' never, ever happened...just that they really were about as scarce as 'hens teeth'.
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and I always marveled at the moving picture shows that showed towns in the old west being terrorized by outlaw gangs.
Most of those towns were settled by VETRANS of the civil war Both sides and those men were not cowards or shirkers.
Example The James/ Dolen gang being wiped out at North Field Minnesota
and The Dalton gang be pummeled in Coffey Ville Kansas.

My Grand mother did witness an old fashioned cowboy gun fight in Three sands Oklahoma in 1908. She said those two men both dropped like sacks of potatoes not like the picture shows where they are flung backwards six or eight feet.
 
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vector7

vector7

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Los Angeles. No other developed nation looks like this.
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1482561694870249472
View: https://twitter.com/Dark_Panth3r/status/1482561694870249472?s=20



Looks like it's sliding off the rails. Either there is a lot of garbage on the tracks &/or those rails need some work.

Or somebody derailed it on purpose to stop the train and loot it.
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1482580444373819397
View: https://twitter.com/ChainsawMelee/status/1482580444373819397?s=20
 
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SurvivalRing

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This looks like a lovely place for Sniper training, automated miniguns, and hunter/killer robots.

Put up a couple of signs that say "this area patrolled by Terminators", and leave the bloody, decomposing thugs carcasses (carcii?) there as a warning to not steal…

I guarantee you that after a few days not a single thief will want to try their luck...
 
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vector7

vector7

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JoeBama's Build Back Better

Joe Biden's infrastructure plan in action. Train with 17 containers derailed yesterday afternoon at Lincoln Heights, the same site of recent train thefts. Union Pacific says "the cause of the derailment is under investigation". Los Angeles, CA.

Should have no problems getting them back on track as they will be empty in a few hours.
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greysage

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How many people were waiting on those packages? How many won't be getting medications and supplements they were expecting? How much of that stuff is unavailable out of stock now? Can't be replaced or reordered?

People may have avoided having to go to stores or shortages in stores. Now we have to contend with what'll probably be hijacking of delivery trucks in the coming year.
 
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WalknTrot

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I've noticed for the last year or more that anything going through Chicago gets lost, stolen, or at best, delayed and mis-routed. Thankfully, I don't usually order anything that goes through California.

RR goons/security used to be a thing, but I'm sure their hands are tied these days too. If you can't chase them off, bust a few skulls, or apprehend and turn them over to the local cops, what's the point.
 
Countrymouse

Countrymouse

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Melodi said:
This is extremely disturbing on several levels, do they even know who is doing this on such a massive scale?

That is somewhat important because it does make a difference in terms of stopping it if it is professional gangs (or people employed by professional gangs) or simply masses of individuals mobbing trains. After all, they have realized they can get away with it.

I don't think things have reached the desperation levels of some parts of the third world where people do stuff like this in order just to get food and fuel. For one thing, it looks like they are targeting the "cool" usable or saleable articles, which suggests there may be a market for them.

Desperate people can be somewhat controlled or modified by bringing in food rations and other necessities but that won't stop professional gangs and/or those they hire for a moment. A sudden appearance of a lot of armed security, on the other hand, might suggest they go take their looting elsewhere.
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Melodi--

If they were "desperate", they'd be stealing FOOD instead of LARGE-SCREEN TV's.

And did you notice the nice clean (designer) Hoodies and the nice clean (designer) sneakers?

They live better than the WORKING people who SUPPORT them do.

And live lying around and breeding like flies---to breed more DEMOCRAT voters who can vote more "free largesse" to themselves off the back of mean, old, "oppressive" (over-whelmed, more like) whitey............
 
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bobfall2005

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Melodi said:
This is extremely disturbing on several levels, do they even know who is doing this on such a massive scale?

That is somewhat important because it does make a difference in terms of stopping it if it is professional gangs (or people employed by professional gangs) or simply masses of individuals mobbing trains. After all, they have realized they can get away with it.

I don't think things have reached the desperation levels of some parts of the third world where people do stuff like this in order just to get food and fuel. For one thing, it looks like they are targeting the "cool" usable or saleable articles, which suggests there may be a market for them.

Desperate people can be somewhat controlled or modified by bringing in food rations and other necessities but that won't stop professional gangs and/or those they hire for a moment. A sudden appearance of a lot of armed security, on the other hand, might suggest they go take their looting elsewhere.
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Yeah. Good point.
 
Melodi

Melodi

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Countrymouse said:
Melodi--

If they were "desperate", they'd be stealing FOOD instead of LARGE-SCREEN TV's.

And did you notice the nice clean (designer) Hoodies and the nice clean (designer) sneakers?

They live better than the WORKING people who SUPPORT them do.

And live lying around and breeding like flies---to breed more DEMOCRAT voters who can vote more "free largesse" to themselves off the back of mean, old, "oppressive" (over-whelmed, more like) whitey............
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That is why I asked the question - that suggests gangs, drug addicts, or both (one using the other) because you are correct, this isn't about food.

Thank you for the input, it wasn't always clear from the articles I was seeing what the intended targets were.

I sounds like either the train companies need to hire armed security or perhaps an argument could be made for vital infrastructure and the National Guard used as a temporary measure for a time to sort this out?

Otherwise, expect things to get much worse until trains are simply derailed more and more often to make them "easier" to loot.
 
Macgyver

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Union Pacific Demands Soros-backed L.A. D.A. George Gascón Do More to Stop Rail Theft

Union Pacific sent a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón demanding more aggressive proescution of rail cargo theft.
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Union Pacific Demands Soros-backed L.A. D.A. George Gascón Do More to Stop Rail Theft
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - DECEMBER 09: San Francisco district attorney George Gascon speaks during a new conference to announce a civil consumer protection action against rideshare company Uber on December 9, 2014 in San Francisco, California. Gascon, along with Los Angeles district attorney Jackie Lacey, announced the filing of a …
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Union Pacific sent a letter to Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón last month threatening to route rail cargo traffic elsewhere if he would not prosecute theft and looting from cargo trains more aggressively, it was revealed on Monday.

Bloomberg News reported that the rail company sent a letter to Gascón in December, citing repeated theft from its trains near downtown Los Angeles, which came to public attention last week as video of the looting and debris went viral.

Bloomberg noted:

“Customers like UPS and FedEx that utilize our essential rail service during peak holiday season are now seeking to divert rail business away to other areas in the hope of avoiding the organized and opportunistic criminal theft that has impacted their own business and customers,” UP public affairs director Adrian Guerrero wrote in a Dec. 20 letter to the Los Angeles district attorney.

The letter added that “like our customers, UP is now contemplating serious changes to our operating plans to avoid Los Angeles County.” A spokeswoman said in an emailed statement on Sunday that the company is still considering such options.

In the three months leading up to the holiday shopping season, UP said an average of more than 90 containers were compromised per day and more than 100 arrests were made. “Of all those arrests, however, UP has not been contacted for any court proceedings,” the letter stated.

The railroad has increased the number of agents, drones, fencing and trespass detection systems. “We need the L.A. District Attorney’s help to ensure there are consequences for those who prevent us from safely moving customer goods,” UP said in the statement.

Gascón, who won election in 2020 with donations of millions of dollars from left-wing billionaire George Soros, has pursued an agenda of “criminal justice reform” that seeks lenient sentences, and that has enraged local residents during a crime wave.

As Breitbart News reported Tuesday, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has been quite about the spate of rail theft, though he has tried to claim credit for incremental improvements at the Los Angeles and Long Beach cargo port facilities.
 
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