Man in handcuffs taken off Southwest Chief, March 9, 2013

[Caesar La Rock]

I find that funny that they are getting felony charges for making an April Fools joke yet anyone that committed something much more serious (i.e. rape, murder, bank robberies, and apparently hacking to name a few) would get less time in jail possibly even probation at best.

 

[Texan Eagle]

DHMO has caused some serious problems, however. It resulted in numerous cancellations and delays on The Empire Builder a couple of years ago, IIRC. I don't recall if those issues resulted in anyone being led off the train in handcuffs however.

Yes, we should write to Amtrak and ask what is it doing to mitigate issues caused by Dihydrogen Monoxide coming in contact with its trains, causing problems like worsened visibility from windows, reduced speeds, delays, even at times damage to tracks.

 

[chakk]

On the CZ when we arrived in Omaha, we stopped just outside the station, conductor said we were waiting for the platform to be ready for us. After a couple minutes, we arrived with several Omaha police officers waiting for the train, they boarded our car and immediately went upstairs, I was in the lower level coach seats. Then they returned with a female in handcuffs. When she was taken off, then other passengers were allowed to de-train from our car. I don't smoke, but went out to see what the scuttle butt was. Apparently she was smoking crack in the rest room and when she got back to her seat upstairs, her crack pipe fell out of her pocket and the passenger behind her found it and gave it to the conductor. A policeman came back on and entered all the bathrooms across from our seats and then put up tape, closing one of them.

"Cocaine disciples

Christians to the ring

Neon arenas

Sirens in the wings

Roll Ulysses

Learn it from the fox

Got to make the country

Or lose it on the rocks"

------ Brewer and Shipley, "Back to the Farm"

 

[winterskigirl]

Small amounts of cannabis can be carried now in a few states. Colorado & Washington come to mind. I wonder how carrying on a train in these states would be handled. I would hope local police would handle rather than the feds. getting involved. Time will tell as these states are still working out the details.

 

[DET63]

Small amounts of cannabis can be carried now in a few states. Colorado & Washington come to mind. I wonder how carrying on a train in these states would be handled. I would hope local police would handle rather than the feds. getting involved. Time will tell as these states are still working out the details.

So long as the carriers are not the engineer, conductor, and other train staff . . .

 

[user 1215]

Amtrak is a interstate transportation operator, and I would imagine ANY Federal law can be enforced. Amtrak police are federal agents.