Seriously: Feds: Man intentionally derailed LA train near hospital ship
:eek:
A train engineer intentionally drove a speeding locomotive off a track at the Port of Los Angeles because he was suspicious about the presence of a Navy hospital ship docked there amid the coronovirus crisis, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
The locomotive crashed through a series of barriers and fences before coming to rest more than 250 yards (230 meters) from the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Mercy on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a release.
Nobody was hurt.
Eduardo Moreno, 44, was charged with one count of train wrecking, prosecutors said. It wasn’t immediately known if he has an attorney.
“Oh sure, Bo; that does seem crazy!” you’re thinking.
I haven’t gotten to the crazy part yet:
Moreno acknowledged in two separate interviews with law enforcement that he intentionally derailed and crashed the train near the Mercy, according to the criminal complaint.
“You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching. I had to,” Moreno told investigators, according to the complaint. “People don’t know what’s going on here. Now they will.”
Moreno said he was suspicious of the Mercy and believed it had an alternate purpose related to COVID-19 or a government takeover, an affidavit states. Moreno stated that he acted alone and had not pre-planned the attempted attack.
In an interview with FBI agents, Moreno stated that “he did it out of the desire to ‘wake people up,’” according to an affidavit.
“Moreno stated that he thought that the USNS Mercy was suspicious and did not believe ‘the ship is what they say it’s for,’” the complaint said.
:smack:
So that’s the crazy part. Here’s the idiotic part:
Phillip Sanfield, spokesman for the Port of Los Angeles, said the locomotive never came close to the Mercy.
“It would have had to have gone several hundred yards through a parking lot and cross a water channel to reach the ship,” Sanfield said. “ The tracks are nowhere near the Mercy.”
Thanks Fox News, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Bill O’reilly, Laura Ingraham, the 3%-ers, the Bundy clan and everyone else who celebrates ignorance and spreads misinformation, suspicion and hatred!
bobot
April 2, 2020, 12:27am
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“Eduardo Moreno, 44, was charged with one count of train wrecking.”
Pitting the guy is a bit harsh, don’t you think?
Hmmm…the Republicans may have found someone to replace Mike Pence as trump’s running mate…
No. He’s a fucking idiot and a lunatic.
Definitely IMHO territory. I mean, it’s not like he made fun of Trump’s tiny fingers or anything…
Stranger
pool
April 2, 2020, 12:45am
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The guy was trying to flatten a penny, with disastrous results.
bobot
April 2, 2020, 12:48am
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I imagine the judge who first calls his name for a plea. “Mr. Moreno, you have been charged with… Train Wrecking? What is this the 18 fucking 30s?”
bobot:
“Eduardo Moreno, 44, was charged with one count of train wrecking.”
Yes, as charges you can have against you go, that has to be one of the most bad-ass.
That would be Putin. They don’t even have to scrap the signs; they can just print “utin” stickers to cover up the “ence”. The trick is just convincing Evangelicals that Putin is name-checked somewhere in Revelations…
Stranger
guizot
April 2, 2020, 1:12am
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Snowboarder_Bo:
Thanks Fox News, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, Bill O’reilly, Laura Ingraham, the 3%-ers, the Bundy clan and everyone else who celebrates ignorance and spreads misinformation, suspicion and hatred!
They don’t just celebrate it. Once they realized how many idiots like this there are, they built an entire ecosystem upon them, (and have been cashing in on it, too). All Trump had to do was walk in and pull the switch.
How is there no mention of sheeple in any media reports of this? Seems like a cover-up…
guizot
April 2, 2020, 1:26am
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This act of stupidity was so ineffectual and moronic that it took a whole day for anyone to realize that it was deliberate. He had to tell
Oh, the sheeple are awake my friend–and they are taking charge .
We have finally found the human as dumb as Ali G. It just took 16 years.
Monty
April 2, 2020, 1:39am
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guizot:
They don’t just celebrate it. Once they realized how many idiots like this there are, they built an entire ecosystem upon them, (and have been cashing in on it, too). All Trump had to do was walk in and pull the switch.
Kudos for the railroad-specific pun in your post!
What, you’re arguing for restrain t? You think the guy is frail ?
Monty
April 2, 2020, 2:01am
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Frail? Nah, I think he’s loco. And this is th end of the line for his career. I hope the cop who caught him used a roundhouse.
Still not as good as stampeding cattle through the Vatican.
This was a bad train of thought for sure.
