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CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:35 am
by ELB
What? Yup, with a train.
https://abc7.com/officials-engineer-tri ... y/6069395/
SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An engineer deliberately ran a train off the tracks at high speed near the Port of Los Angeles in an attempt to crash into the USNS Mercy hospital ship, prosecutors say.
The Pacific Harbor Line train derailed Tuesday, running through the end of the track and crashing through barriers, finally coming to rest about 250 yards from the docked naval ship.
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:31 am
by Rafe
A little more on this bizarre incident from Fox News:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-d ... y-feds-say
"[The engineer] expressed concerns to authorities that the ship had an alternate purpose than to assist with COVID-19 and was potentially linked to a government takeover and he derailed the train to 'wake people up.'"
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:32 am
by KC5AV
It seems his tin-foil hat may have been just a little bit too tight.
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:50 am
by crazy2medic
I find it odd that he couldn't just look at the distances and obstacles involved and not know he'd never get that locomotive near that ship!
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:18 pm
by Flightmare
crazy2medic wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:50 am
I find it odd that he couldn't just look at the distances and obstacles involved and not know he'd never get that locomotive near that ship!
Maybe in his mind, he was like "I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!"....you know, like the little engine that could.
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:36 pm
by crazy2medic
Flightmare wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:18 pm
crazy2medic wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:50 am
I find it odd that he couldn't just look at the distances and obstacles involved and not know he'd never get that locomotive near that ship!
Maybe in his mind, he was like "I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!"....you know, like the little engine that could.
Lol, your probably right!
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 12:36 pm
by SigM4
I hear the FBI is investigating regarding his loco motive.
I’ll see myself out...
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:51 pm
by bobby
Maybe he was getting revenge on the Barb?
https://youtu.be/PKklyvxw8QU
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:43 pm
by JustSomeOldGuy
Boobytrapping a rail line and using five deck mounted rocket launchers to bombard coastal installations......obviously a believer in the dictum "there are very few problems that can't be solved through the judicious application of high explosives".
I'm going to have to add this one to the collection;
https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Below-Re ... 0252066707
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:14 pm
by C-dub
crazy2medic wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:50 am
I find it odd that he couldn't just look at the distances and obstacles involved and not know he'd never get that locomotive near that ship!
Not a very good engineer, I guess.
Or, ladies & gentlemen, the effects of medical marijuana?
Re: CA: Engineer tries to sink USNS Mercy with train
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:24 pm
by C-dub
LDP wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:22 pm
C-dub wrote: Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:14 pm
crazy2medic wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:50 am
I find it odd that he couldn't just look at the distances and obstacles involved and not know he'd never get that locomotive near that ship!
Not a very good engineer, I guess.
Or the fact that he's a "choo-choo kinda engineer", not "slide-rule kinda engineer". Big difference.
I knew someone would catch that.
Either way, he couldn't calculate that there was no way he was going to achieve his goal neither did he know his engine well enough.