Casey Jones -or- Another Idiot Trumpster Goes Off The Rails

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Engineer tried to crash train into USNS Mercy in Los Angeles

ABC NewsApril 1, 2020, 4:35 PM PDT




Investigators arrested a California train engineer Tuesday after he allegedly derailed a train in a bid to crash into the USNS Mercy, the hospital ship treating non-COVID-19 patients at the Port of Los Angeles to lessen the burden on area hospitals, prosecutors said.

Eduardo Moreno, 44, was expected to appear in court Wednesday for arraignment on train wrecking charges.

Around 1 p.m. Tuesday, Moreno allegedly ran the train at full speed off the end of the tracks near the Navy medical boat, smashing through several concrete and chain barriers, before sliding through a parking lot nearly 250 yards from the Mercy, according to the criminal complaint.

No one was injured and the boat wasn't damaged, however, the train leaked a substantial amount of fuel, the complaint said.
A California Highway Patrol officer caught Moreno as he allegedly tried to escape from the scene, according to the complaint.

Moreno allegedly told officers and FBI investigators that he deliberately derailed the train because he was suspicious of the Mercy's intentions and thought it was actually part of a government takeover, the complaint said.

"Moreno stated that he acted alone and had not pre-planned the attempted attack," according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Central District of California. "While admitting to intentionally derailing and crashing the train, he said he knew it would bring media attention and 'people could see for themselves,' referring to the Mercy."

In an interview with FBI agents, Moreno stated that "he did it out of the desire to ‘wake people up,’" according to the complaint.
Investigators are still reviewing surveillance footage from the scene, including inside the locomotive.

[BoSoxGal]

[Bicycle Bill]

There's apparently another disease out there — let's call it 'Trumpititis' — that eats away one's brain, and this guy obviously has it.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

I guess it's not surprising that a situation like this would make the clinically paranoid even more paranoid...

Stories like this (and those relating other kookaboo behaviors; like the mentally ill woman who decided to run around coughing all over produce in a store while claiming to be infected, or the guy who fired on a crowd of people) point out the need to make sure mental health treatment and services remains available and accessible even with the strain to the healthcare system we're dealing with...

The prolonged shelter-in-place orders, while clearly an absolute necessity to save lives, will no doubt produce a number of outbursts of severely anti-social behavior from folks who weren't wrapped too tight to begin with...

Law enforcement needs to be on the lookout for this...

[BoSoxGal]

Problem is we generally jail the great majority of mentally ill folks who engage in such behavior - and the plight of folks living and working in jail during a pandemic is pretty terrible.

[BoSoxGal]

Here's some tin foil hat, deranged, etc.

Dr. Anthony Fauci gets a security detail after receiving threats to his safety as the face of the White House's coronavirus response team
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He has also received disturbing messages from fervent admirers

No good deed goes unpunished.