Prosecutors: Engineer deliberately ran train off tracks in attempt to smash the USNS Mercy

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Decades in the navy specialising in warfare and I’d never considered attacking a naval ship with a locomotive.

I must expand my horizons - to include the Yanks.

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USNS Mercy : 1

Train Engineer who thinks the coronavirus was created by a secret society of rich people to further take over the world. : 0

Has anyone heard from @Heiwa lately & does he have the license to operate a train?

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I bet he won’t be getting a hair follicle test.

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Completely agree. This should inspire us all to open our minds and think of ever more creative ways to accomplish our goals.

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Seems like a blatant attempt of terrorism. HANG HIM!

On the plus side, Liberty University has a new Dean of Engineering.

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Per the Washington Post, Moreno told investigators the idea just sort of popped up in his head.

“I don’t know. Sometimes you just get a little snap and man, it was fricking exciting,” Moreno allegedly said. “I just had it and I was committed. I just went for it. I had one chance.”

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I wonder where the guy ever got the idea that there was a “deep state” plotting to take over the country.

Our constitution won’t allow us to hang people like him. He tried to use a train to hit a ship moored 500 yards away from the end of the tracks & then made this statement, “You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching. I had to. People don’t know what’s going on here. Now they will.”. But we could possiblely hang his supervisor & the guy who hired him to drive trains.

I think a just punishment would be to have Steven Seagal, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson or Bruce Willis whoop his ass & put him in a mental hospital. Definitely ban him from watching TV ever again too.

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“It would have worked, too, if those pesky laws of physics hadn’t interfered!"

Yeah, but it must have been sweet for a while, running light, throttle wide open, that big EMD starting to sing, accelerating down the track, headed for glory.

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There’s a specific crime called “train wrecking?”

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The guy must have been watching way too many action movies to realize all that CGI and special effect stuff doesn’t translate well in real life.

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Evidently. https://law.justia.com/codes/us/1999/title18/parti/chap97/sec1992

A crime for everything, and for everyone a crime. We’re number one!

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It was just poor execution. He didn’t want it enough 8-^)

He will probably continue to be - to the appropriate institution.

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I knew this. I was just rabble-rousing.

Reference Cartman when he was temporarily turned into a ginger.

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I was only half kidding. It’s hard to believe this guy didn’t raise a ton of red flags with his supervisors & coworkers before this. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s not a whole line of people willing to use the phrase, “I knew this dude was going to flipout one day.” Investigate his supervisors IMO.

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I knew you knew that.

As a professional mariner, I had to defend myself from a perceived bashing, regardless of the resepected source.

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