Missing a package? Shipment delayed? Maybe your package is among the thousands we found discarded along the tracks. This is but one area thieves have targeted trains. We were told this area was just cleaned up 30 days ago so what you see is all within the last month. @CBSLA pic.twitter.com/43002DPyZa
— John Schreiber (@johnschreiber) January 13, 2022
January 14, 2022
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People respond to incentives. So do thieves.
Look for your item on Ebay at a reduced price and cross your fingers it isn't stolen again.
My limited experience with railroad "dicks" showed them to be ruthless and quick to violence. Not sure how this is allowed. Even derailments on private property are under the control of railroad "dicks". Local, county, and state LEO's all remove themselves from the area, and Property owners are barred from their own property.
I guess I'm saying, decisions have been made to ignore the lawlessness.
This is a really expensive and inefficient way to achieve equity. I always wonder, for how long it will be encouraged?
As civilization crumbles around us…
Bidens Lawless America. They will be let go, because they didn't take over $999. worth of stuff at the same time.
Somewhere in LA is a modern day Fagin. Street people bring him this plunder in exchange for drugs and he has others selling it for him on Ebay.
it's just shoplifting, isn't it? That's Legal in California now, isn't it?
It's a cultural thing.
iowan2 said...
My limited experience with railroad "dicks" showed them to be ruthless and quick to violence
in the immortal words, of SE Hinton; That Was THEN, This Is NOW
There are NO Laws restricting theft in California anymore. Grabbers Keepers
we, as Americans, didn't WANT to live in a country of Laws; did we?
It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this Thief Train down.
Why open the box on site? Seems inconvenient…
Neobarbarians at work. They're everywhere, robbing trains, robbing jewelry stores, robbing Walmarts, just to mention a few. Then, there's the neobarbarians on CNN and MSNBC lying about "white supremacy", and how CRT isn't in the schools. We have neobarbarians in the White House and the Congress, screeching about how election integrity measures are really voter suppression.
Every single neobarbarian is undermining civil society and creating chaos.
I'm glad I don't live in LA. We would like to visit friends in Ca but not until there is some semblance of order.
We all pay in for what is happening in blue states.
@rehajm, you wouldn't want to get home to find a box full of stuffed bears, would you?
rehajm said...Why open the box on site? Seems inconvenient…
Efficiency: Amazon boxes are often much bigger than their contents and this way you can focus on the most valuable stuff.
But what are the root causes?
At least there’s no more mean tweets…
If only we had a bureau, or department of our Federal Government who's job it was to work on domestic crimes that are dangerous to the public or the economy at large. If only we had people who's job it was to investigate and pursue those criminals perpetrating these crimes.
Well...at least we have a new division established to surveil and investigate taxpaying citizens who did not vote for Joe Biden. So we've got that going for us.
>>But what are the root causes?
The answer is racism, climate change, and corporate greed.
It doesn't really matter what the question is, that's the answer.
I'm pretty sure I just saw the Bob Ross slippers I ordered for Christmas!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/weird-christmas-gifts-2020_n_5f97b6b4c5b63fd49cef916a
Coming soon to a neighborhood like yours!
Let's go, dementia Joe!
I wonder if the thieves use stolen iPhones to check the boxes for those Apple Tag thingies before they steal them?
Perhaps the only defense is for the people of LA to ship back their Cologuard samples on the same day…
On a more practical note, tracking of packages is an advanced art. The losses are surely noticed almost immediately when the packages don't get to the next waypoint. Why are shippers putting up with this?
Either the situation is being sensationalized beyond its much smaller reality, or the tracking process has already identified this as a problem and remedies are being considered. The solution? Better locks on containers and rail cars? Reroute the trains to avoid slowing and stopping here? Treat a few looters to arrest and federal charges (robbing a train is a federal crime, not local) every day as a lesson to the rest until the problem is resolved? Sack the local DA?
And as an aside, how is the local Fagan shipping his ill-gotten goods, without having repeated losses and undelivered product to his buyers due to train robberies?
>>And as an aside, how is the local Fagan shipping his ill-gotten goods, without having repeated losses and undelivered product to his buyers due to train robberies?
When your cost of goods sold is essentially zero, you can put up with quite a bit of losses and still be wildly profitable.
rehajm said...
Why open the box on site? Seems inconvenient…
on the aerial video on twitter there's 100's (1,000's!) of boxes opened and laying on the railside.
There's ALSO, a homeless camp right next to the tracks. Looks like:
a train stops for switching
a Horde of neobarbarians jump onto the railcars; and Throw Off,AS Much as they can
then, a their leisure; the neobarbs open up the packages, looking for useful/valuable stuff
I'll bet those homeless newbarbs are pretty well dressed. AND have pretty good spending money
Idiocracy is here.
I sure hope Meryl Streep, the Ladies of The View and Barbara Streisand don't have to see that mess.
*fainting couch*
We need a guy like the Polk County Florida Sheriff to be in charge of law enforcement. If you haven't heard of him, use your search engine to find videos where he summarizes how crime does not pay where he has jurisdiction.
One year when I was going to school in Madison, I lived in a dump of a house on West Doty in the student housing area. When my parents came to visit one day, my dad got out of the car, looked the house up and down and said "at least you'll know what it's like to live in the ghetto." Never thought I'd know what it was like to live in a third world shithole, but here we are.
While rich white progressive elites can afford personal security details PAID FOR BY US, the rest of us democrat loyalists adore our white left elite betters and demand they DEFUND THE POLICE! After all, criminals are people too.
eBay is Fagan.
Devolution is Real…
Since train robbing is a federal crime this another example federal law enforcement incompetence. That said, shippers should be suing the railroads for willfully failing to protect the cargo.
If the insurance companies would put waivers on their policies to exclude the LA intermodal for theft claims that would encourage to do something about this such as having railroad dicks beat the crap out of the thieves. That would deter crime.
mikee shows he's Got A Lot To Learn About Railroads, when he says...
Reroute the trains to avoid slowing and stopping here?
It Sure would be NICE, if things from China didn't have to go through Los Angles...
BUT
cubanbob said...
do something about this such as having railroad dicks beat the crap out of the thieves
In CALIFORNIA???
You'd have some pretty rich homeless neobarbs, if the BNSF was stupid enough to assault them. Seriously, What do you think a California jury would do?
$1,000,000 a beating? $10,000,000 ? $100,000,000 ???
When my Great Grandpa was an engineer on the Santa Fe the railroad bulls would have put a stop to that real quick.
The authorities are super concerned to stop this madness. If only they could predict where the next theft would occur.
Having earned his "Carter years" badge, Joe Biden is now going for his FDR trophy. He's already got:
1. Greatly expand government spending
2. Food shortages
3. Hobos robbing trains
which leaves only
4. Global war
Oh dear.
These aren't thefts. They are cultural appropriation.
Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
and remedies are being considered
Are they? As illustrated in Atlas Shrugged, what will happen is that people in the bureaucracy (government/corporate/etc) will figuratively say "Who is John Galt?" and go about their day.
The article points out that they have hired extra guards. But will the guards actually do anything? Arrest them? And turn them over to who? Who will prosecute?
There were stories about looting in Chicago as well last June. Chicago Train Looting
Biden's America
Theft and trash - It's a progressive paradise!
The mention of REI packages caught my eye. I belong to a couple buy-sell groups on facebook and there is one that has a number of folks who are frequently selling REI merch new, with tags. I keep wondering how they get this stuff in a way that would be profitable at the price at which they are selling.
Two of them are in the LA area.
Hmmmm.
In the bizarro world that we now live in, the LA District Attorney wouldn’t prosecute the thieves leaving this mess, either for theft or littering, most likely in the name of social justice. But they would prosecute the railroad for the “litter” to the fullest extent of the law because this is a big, bad, and rich capitalist company; after all, the powers that be in LA are worried about all this pollution on the railroad’s property and its effect on the environment…
We are moving to Mad Max times.
Beats dumpster diving all to hell.
Watch It Fall
I’ve imagined we’ll eventually see a commerce strike in areas where theft is legal- store closures, delivery companies abandoning certain zip codes, insurance companies leaving…something. I also know banking tolerates an unseemly percentage of ‘shrink’ from fraud year after year, passing on the costs to consumers
…and now that Team Biden’s Earpiece has billions, nay trillions in government slush at its discretion it would not surprise me if some of that discretion is slopping over to mitigate the damage to the losing participants…
It does not give me hope something constructive will be done…
Bob Boyd said...
Watch It Fall
Thanks!
Another success story for Transportation Secretary Pete.
...do something about this such as having railroad dicks beat the crap out of the thieves.
There are a lot more deserving candidates for a beating in this country than these desperate train robbers. And a lot of them went to the best schools.
So, I lost a keyboard shipment somewhere around Gary, Ind a few years ago. And another from China shortly after it landed in Seattle.
I had no freaking idea this kind of thing was going on. Good time to save my money!
This is what happens when governments fail to do their primary job- keep the peace and order. This is only going to get worse.
"Why are shippers putting up with this?"
Because they aren't allowed to do anything about it other than not ship stuff through California.
mikee said...
Why are shippers putting up with this?
Big companies can absorb these losses.
Small companies cannot.
This is crony capitalism at work. The aristocracy has been at war with small businesses since the start. They want their big business cronies in charge because big business cronies are very much down with National Socialism.
Yup. It's easier to herd half a dozen oxen than 5000 cats.
You'd think LA officials would want to stop the littering.
Can't see it from their houses. Can't see the homeless encampments either.
I expect our esteemed Transportation Secretary and his minions to personally guard these containers. After all they don’t have much else to do. I don’t want my twice, back-ordered L.L. Bean pants from Indonesia to get lost.
From Chicago.
These are the sorts of things that happen as a society collapses into anarchy. There is, apparently, no will to stop any of this these days.
'My limited experience with railroad "dicks" showed them to be ruthless and quick to violence.'
Those were the Raymond Chandler days...
Back then, thieves and hobos would be beaten within an inch of their lives.
Now they're given government checks and a nice hotel room to live in.
My grandparents had a house in Lincoln Heights. (My granddad actually built it himself, which is how they rolled in those days.) I spent a lot of my first 25 years there. It's a gigantic railroad hub and the whole area smelled like oil and diesel fuel. My dad was actually a mailman at the Lincoln Heights post office when I was born. They have a big park there called Lincoln park. Back in the 1960s, they had a small lake and a boathouse where you could rent peddle boats. My mom took us there a lot as kids. Now the place is a total shithole filled with drug dealers and addicts.
speed up the trains
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