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The Wild West must be back again.
It seems a man was believed to have taken over a freight train with a bow and arrow and was only stopped once police shot and wounded the man.
Ye ol' Union Pacific was boarded by the man as it stopped for a signal. The man threatened the only people on board - an engineer and conductor - and was shot at when he pointed his arrow at the police.
You know, as soon as I read this story, I immediately heard the Will Smith version of the Wild, Wild West song, although some people out there might better remember this.
I don't know what the dude was planning on stealing, though. What's to rob from a train in this day and age? What, was he going to syphon out some diesel fuel or something? I don't get it.
If this had happened in Canada, you bet that mean ol' Snidley Whiplash wouldn't get away from our Dudley Do-Right mounties.
Comments
hmmm... Now if I just had a tanker to put the stolen diesel in, I'd be set for a while... You may be on to something there... Perhaps the act might better be done though when the train is sitting in a quiet yard with nobody around...
Posted by: Tim | October 14, 2005 04:54 PM
Maybe it had a nuclear bomb on board. Or some important government official with a brief case chained to his wrist yet who had to take Amtrack b/c of govt. budget cuts.
Or maybe he was a Less Recently Immigrated American (to the PC police, that would be a Native American) who wanted to rob from forked tounge the way of the ancestors.
Posted by: KJ | October 17, 2005 07:07 AM