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NOW YOU GOT ME MAD TOO! [:(!][V][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][banghead][banghead][banghead][banghead][censored][soapbox][soapbox] 1. You got a ticket? “You got a right to be there”! Yeah…like you’ve got a ticket to the Superbowl…so you’ve got a right to run down to the end zone to get the perfect shot of a touchdown. Try it… if you’re lucky the Cops will get to you before the fans do… before the players do. 2. You have a “Human Right” to play Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol if you want to. Yeah, well, maybe…. Just do it on your own property, where the travel-on won’t hit anyone else… oh yeah, and in a body bag so no-one else has to clear up your mess. 3. Now I wasn’t there so I don’t know exactly what went down…BUT… Maybe the cop was heavy handed… the guy had been warned about “Amtrak Cops” already… If I’m warned that there’s “trouble” about I keep a low profile, I’m ultra polite… I take the cop’s number… I discreetly record what happens on my cell phone… In a location like that in this country I would make sure I was on CCTV and my solicitors would be demanding a copy of the “Chain of Custody” records of the tape plus a secured copy of the tape. Then again… though this wouldn’t justify bad policing… what has the cop dealt with recently? Has he not long scraped a railfan off the track… a drug abuser, a vandal… they all look the same after a train’s gone through them… 4. Some cops are stoopid… some railfans are stoopid… Thank God for potty training! Either way that’s my taxes are paying for the time taken/wasted… and he should be out giving speeding tickets… 5. Would you stand in on the Freeway to take truck photos? 6. The 9/11 maniacs were “genuine” flying enthusiasts… went to flying school… got proper training… 7. What does the engineer of an intermodal at speed do… hang out the cab and check your “Enthusiasts Pass”? 8 . There is a miniscule minority of people that do the bad things… they foul it up for all of us… and the media don’t help… look at Katrina… first thing we hear is about rapes, looting, shootouts… how many thousands of acts of caring have we not heard about? 9. Can’t say I count that closely… but how many US citizens are there? How many bombs/terrorist incidents have you had in the last ten years? (One is too many). We have a national programme called “Crimewatch”… it always ends with the line “Don’t have nightmares”. If we all run around in fear the maniacs have won. You don’t smoke while putting gas in your car? So just use the same sense about terrorism… we shouldn’t have to but we all have to live with it. You can’t live on “red alert” 24/7/365. 10. Hey… if you’re a railroad cop… please remember… we’re as passionate about our hobby as you are about yours… you probably get a bit addicted, a bit blind to reality… put the cuffs on gently… please sir.
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