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[quote user="John WR"] Amtrak, long distance buses and airlines are common carriers and open to anyone who pays the fare.  There will always be some passengers who are unruly.  But on a case by case basis there are also people who are removed for no good reason.  In this case, biting a police officer does seem to justify that particular decision.  [/quote] Just a little bite!  Shoot, in Texas we do things bigger and better. Well, maybe not better, but certainly with a bigger bang. On December 6, 2011, the Dallas cops boarded Amtrak #22.  They were looking for suspected drug traffickers.  And apparently they found one.  Or he found them. He pulled a gun on them. A big mistake in Texas. The cops blew him to Kingdom Come. And in the process shot a bystander. One of the cops took a round in the hand.  Not sure where it came from. The bystander and the cop earned a tale that they can tell their kids and grand kids. If you have ever been on an Amtrak Superliner coach, you know that it is pretty confined.  I cannot imagine the gun report that must have echoed through the car as the locals battled it out with the bad guy from Michigan. I have seen the Boarder Patrol board the Sunset Limited in Alpine, TX on numerous occasions.  They were looking for drug runners. And on at least two occasions over the past two years I have seen them haul someone off the train, handcuff them, and place them in the back of the paddy wagon. Presumably it was not because they did not have a driver's license or other id.   Apparently the druggies have taken to using Amtrak's long distance trains to further their trade.  It seems that getting through airport screening with a load of weed is a challenge. Not so much on Amtrak's trains. So maybe I have been wrong about the long distance trains. They do help meet at least one market need albeit not a legal one.
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