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+ photo gallery attached to the LA Times coverage of the same: the train tracks are just littered with piles of torn-open shipping boxes https://www.latimes.co

+ photo gallery attached to the LA Times coverage of the same: the train tracks are just littered with piles of torn-open shipping boxes https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-15/photos-robbing-trains-no-longer-exclusive-to-western-movies-as-tracks-near-dtla-littered-with-pilfered-e-commerce https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-15/photos-r...

exhilaration 5y ago
Don't miss these pictures, folks!
- Qub3d 5y ago
  Jeez, talk about dystopian: https://archive.fo/32Oxe/100c8558eb486a340a554a583e45f49d291b7c4b.webp https://archive.fo/32Oxe/100c8558eb486a340a554a583e45f49d291...
  - muzz 5y ago
    "Visible" might be a better word. Far more dollars are stolen from bank accounts, wages, etc. but there are no striking photos of that.
    - ryandrake 5y ago
      Exactly. Theft happens every day, orders of magnitude greater values get stolen from people, often by corporations, but when people steal some packages from a train or shoplift from Walgreens, that’s somehow the horrible and shocking news story. How many “OMG people are stealing from corporations and getting away with it!” news stories have been published in the last 30 days? I guess it only counts as societal breakdown when there’s viral video of it.
    - Qub3d 5y ago
      I was moreso thinking the juxtaposition between the scattered boxes in contrast to the soaring cityscape in the background. It was a visible sign of the class divide to me, and an example of how the upper echelons (skyscrapers) are above and unaffected by the mess below.
jnord 5y ago
https://archive.fo/32Oxe https://archive.fo/32Oxe
gusgus01 5y ago
Not sure where best to respond so all the people who have seen these see it, but those pictures are actually from a train derailment at the same location https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/train-derails-near-los-angeles-site-of-recent-wave-of-cargo-thefts/103-4d20c217-c30f-4eec-9b5f-f30b96841701 https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/train-de... The reason currently isn't known but they are investigating. Those pictures are from after the derailment.
- david2ndaccount 5y ago
  Simply not true. As you can see in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrTORBS-co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrTORBS-co the tracks are both like that before the derailment and the containers on the derailed train are intact. That massive number of torn open packages is from before the derailment.
  - octoberfranklin 5y ago
    I think OP means that the train derailed, then people robbed it while it was stuck and couldn't flee. I don't think the derailment caused all that crap to fly out of the train. Nor do I think that one train got looted, and the debris derailed the following train.
muzz 5y ago
Right, so humans are opening the boxes and looking inside. Not exactly a quick or efficient way of stealing. As opposed to backing up a truck and carting off the packages by the truckload.
registeredcorn 5y ago
Lots of videos online about this, if you haven't seen them: https://twitter.com/RonMilnerBoodle/status/1481777403252944896 https://twitter.com/RonMilnerBoodle/status/14817774032529448... https://twitter.com/realaustinzone/status/1463279300094869508 https://twitter.com/realaustinzone/status/146327930009486950... https://twitter.com/awgonnerman/status/1483456509950451715 https://twitter.com/awgonnerman/status/1483456509950451715 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770959673520128 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770959673520128 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481771854465359873 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481771854465359873 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481785013880655876 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481785013880655876

exhilaration 5y ago

Don't miss these pictures, folks!

Qub3d 5y ago
Jeez, talk about dystopian: https://archive.fo/32Oxe/100c8558eb486a340a554a583e45f49d291b7c4b.webp https://archive.fo/32Oxe/100c8558eb486a340a554a583e45f49d291...
- muzz 5y ago
  "Visible" might be a better word. Far more dollars are stolen from bank accounts, wages, etc. but there are no striking photos of that.
  - ryandrake 5y ago
    Exactly. Theft happens every day, orders of magnitude greater values get stolen from people, often by corporations, but when people steal some packages from a train or shoplift from Walgreens, that’s somehow the horrible and shocking news story. How many “OMG people are stealing from corporations and getting away with it!” news stories have been published in the last 30 days? I guess it only counts as societal breakdown when there’s viral video of it.
  - Qub3d 5y ago
    I was moreso thinking the juxtaposition between the scattered boxes in contrast to the soaring cityscape in the background. It was a visible sign of the class divide to me, and an example of how the upper echelons (skyscrapers) are above and unaffected by the mess below.

jnord 5y ago

https://archive.fo/32Oxe https://archive.fo/32Oxe

gusgus01 5y ago

Not sure where best to respond so all the people who have seen these see it, but those pictures are actually from a train derailment at the same location https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/train-derails-near-los-angeles-site-of-recent-wave-of-cargo-thefts/103-4d20c217-c30f-4eec-9b5f-f30b96841701 https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/train-de... The reason currently isn't known but they are investigating. Those pictures are from after the derailment.

david2ndaccount 5y ago
Simply not true. As you can see in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrTORBS-co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrTORBS-co the tracks are both like that before the derailment and the containers on the derailed train are intact. That massive number of torn open packages is from before the derailment.
- octoberfranklin 5y ago
  I think OP means that the train derailed, then people robbed it while it was stuck and couldn't flee. I don't think the derailment caused all that crap to fly out of the train. Nor do I think that one train got looted, and the debris derailed the following train.

muzz 5y ago

Right, so humans are opening the boxes and looking inside. Not exactly a quick or efficient way of stealing. As opposed to backing up a truck and carting off the packages by the truckload.

registeredcorn 5y ago

Lots of videos online about this, if you haven't seen them: https://twitter.com/RonMilnerBoodle/status/1481777403252944896 https://twitter.com/RonMilnerBoodle/status/14817774032529448... https://twitter.com/realaustinzone/status/1463279300094869508 https://twitter.com/realaustinzone/status/146327930009486950... https://twitter.com/awgonnerman/status/1483456509950451715 https://twitter.com/awgonnerman/status/1483456509950451715 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770959673520128 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770959673520128 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481771854465359873 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481771854465359873 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481785013880655876 https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481785013880655876