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I have been watched, questioned, accused so on and so forth. My one friend calls me a "cop magnet". <br /> <br />We as railfans do something that some think warrants a stay in a mental institution. <br /> <br />I was in Hummellstown, PA one day when an officer pulled up and said he had a call that someone with a video camera was pointing it at his house. I told the officer that if he wished to review my tape, all he would see is trains. <br /> <br />He asked for my ID. <br /> <br />Turns out, he grew up in my home town, Johnstown, PA. <br /> <br />We had a nice chat. <br /> <br />One day at Mapletion Depot, PA a state cop who was trying to serve a warrant, stopped by where my friend and I were. We heard ballast cruching behind us, I turned, he asked, "Who is It?" I said, "State cop". <br /> <br />He almost fell out of his chair! <br /> <br />Turns out the cop had a friend who had the same hobby. He wanted to know why we did what we do. <br /> <br />At the end of it all, he discovered train engines have speed recorders. A bit of good info in case he was ever at another crossing accident. <br /> <br />What we do is sometimes very much unknown. Therefore, we are dangerous.
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