What a bunch of thugs they hire as crew.
The father whose several children, ages 12 to 15, were removed from an Amtrak train said he's considering filing a lawsuit against the rail carrier.
Peter Sharfin accused Amtrak of overreacting and abusing the children, who booted them out in the dark and 600 miles from home after accusations that one of them stole an iPod.
"I felt like it was child endangerment," he said. "These are children alone at night."
Sharfin said the children didn't know where they were.
"They were hundreds of miles from home," he said. "It was dark. Their parents weren't there."
Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said the children "weren't just put off in the middle of nowhere, mind you. They were put off in the custody of the police department."
You damn kids! Get off our train! I'm glad to see Amtrak conductors are taking it upon themselves to make citizens arrests.
I've ridden Amtrak enough to see some real shitheads that should have been kicked off the train. The guy who would NOT SHUT UP about what he was going to do in Chicago. The two ladies who would NOT SHUT UP about what they had gotten at Zabars. Don't forget the derelict loser who was hitting on the mother of two for five hours. Kick those people off the train. Leave the kids alone.
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I had my 21st birthday on an Amtrak train going from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I saw several horrors, including two teenage boys getting in a fistfight over a girl. I sat next to one of them, who told me that the other guy was his cousin. The cousin had been sentenced to sit in the "caboose" with the conductor like a naughty orphan.
Later, a man ran screeching through the aisle, chased by a drunk woman (his "traveling companion") who was trying to inflict some sort of bodily harm against him with her purse. She was arrested in Santa Barbara.
Best birthday ever. Thanks, Amtrak!
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