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!
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.
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."
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