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QUOTE FROM ED BURKHARDT: The engineer on the runaway train that leveled much of a Quebec town with a deadly blast apparently didn’t properly set the hand brakes. “It’s very questionable whether the hand brakes were properly applied on this train,” Edward Burkhardt, head honcho of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, said Wednesday. “As a matter of fact, I’ll say they weren’t; otherwise, we wouldn’t have had this incident.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Oh really?   If it is very questionable, how do you come to a “matter of fact” conclusion? Burkhardt concludes that if the hand brakes were applied, the runaway would not have occurred.  Sure, that is 100% true.  But how do you conclude that the engineer failed to properly apply hand brakes when there is a possibility that someone else released them after the engineer applied them? After all, it was Mr. Burkhardt that earlier, when he was trying to blame the fire department, made a point of telling us that the engineer was “NOT THE LAST PERSON TO TOUCH THAT TRAIN.” And it was Mr. Burkhardt who has told us that he has evidence that the train was “tampered with.” So now he says that his investigation concludes that hand brakes were not set on the cars.  Yeah right.  I’ll bet it does.    [subtle sarcasm]
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