As should rightly happen, particularly on Amtrak and especially in California, an allegedly drunk passenger, who also allegedly lit up a cigarette not only at a southern California Amtrak station but then again in a Business Class car, was removed by security from the train:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/jan/01/amtrak-passenger-detrained-oceanside/
Goes to show, thankfully, how serious Conductors are about rules aboard and in-state. How absurd for this passenger to allegedly flaunt the rules, after having paid extra for Business Class, wherein one is constantly under surveilance by a Conductor a few feet away.
Reminds me of the Conductor on a City of New Orleans train in 2009, that removed a young man who had alleged become intoxicated after having stolen liquor from a Bedroom. The conductor (a imposing former Marine) summoned the police at the Memphis station (where police have a substation) and had him removed, telling those of us boarding essentially that, "No drunk is going to be on MY train."
As long a there's been trains there's been buttheads traveling on them. Zero tolerance, folks. Some people need to have it forcibly demonstrated that if you act like a jerk those in authority are perfectly capable of treating you like one. Nothing else works.
On the average of once a week, one of the Amtrak trains operating on my territory have a 'unruly' passenger(s) removed from the train by the nearest local constabulary to where the Conductor has had his fill of the conduct.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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