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[quote user="schlimm"] [quote user="greyhounds"] I don't say that there is evidence of sabotage.  But neither is there any evidence that the engineer failed to properly do his job.[/quote] No "evidence" that the engineer was negligent, but the CEO of the railroad, who is in a position to know more than you or the rest of us seemed to think it likely.  And no reason to believe terrorism of any sort. <div class="text combinedtext parbase section"> [/quote] </div> Burkhardt may be in a position to know things, but he is discrediting himself by his own words.  The engineer of the train said he set sufficient hand brakes.  There is no way of knowing whether that is true or false.  But Burkhardt says the engineer’s claim is false because it is implausible.  Implausible is the word he used.  It means that it can not be true.  If it cannot be true, it has to be false.  He comes to that conclusion because the train would not have rolled if sufficient hand brakes were set.  Either Mr. Burkhardt is not intelligent enough to see the fallacy of his conclusion or he is deliberately lying in order to deceive the media and public. Of course the engineer’s claim is NOT implausible, as Mr. Burkhardt says.  It is entirely plausible that the engineer set the hand brakes as he claims and that the hand brakes were then released by someone else for a variety of possible reasons such as tampering, sabotage, or vandalism.   And until a positive cause is found, you cannot rule out any possible cause.  A lack of evidence that something happened does not prove that it did not happen.      Therefore, Burkhardt’s assertion that it is implausible that the engineer applied hand brakes is bogus, and that is plainly obvious to anybody with eyes to see.  The engineer probably has no witness to back up his claim of setting handbrakes.  He may be facing prison time if a jury believes Mr. Burkhardt’s bogus assertion about what is plausible.
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