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31 Aug 01 - 06:24 PM (#539308) Subject: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Amos Has the romance gone out of the railroads? Consider this poor misguided wannabe: DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas man who wanted to go "wherever the train takes me" was arrested when a stubborn brake stymied his efforts to steal a freight train and he radioed for help, officials said on Thursday. Sheriff Bob Alford of Johnson County, about 5 miles (72 km) southwest of Dallas, said 22-year-old Kristopher Huie got caught because he used the train's radio to ask dispatchers how to release the brake. Huie clambered aboard the parked Union Pacific Corp freight on Wednesday evening and managed to start the engines. But then he had trouble releasing a brake, and radioed Union Pacific dispatchers for help. A passing conductor and engineer, alerted by the radio call, overpowered Huie and held him for the sheriff. "I asked him what he wanted to do with the train and he said he wanted to visit his family and friends," Alford told Reuters. "I asked him where he was going and he said, 'Wherever the train takes me."' "That was a full freight train. It could have been a disaster if he'd been able to move it," the sheriff said. It was not immediately clear how many rail cars were on the train. Huie was jailed and faced a felony charge of theft over $200,000. |
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31 Aug 01 - 06:27 PM (#539312) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: iamjohnne This reads like a candidate for "Dumb Crook Newa" Johnne "goin where the weather suits my clothes" |
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31 Aug 01 - 06:33 PM (#539316) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Gareth My goodness, there's a Song Challenge there !!! Gareth |
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31 Aug 01 - 06:37 PM (#539317) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Justa Picker [Musical Thread Creep] Here's the tab for Elizabeth Cotten's "Freight Train" (for guitar, standard tuning.) (..sorry...couldn't resist, with a thread title like this one...) |
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31 Aug 01 - 06:39 PM (#539319) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Sorcha Candidate for the Darwin Awards........ |
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01 Sep 01 - 03:09 AM (#539504) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Lin in Kansas Justa Picker-- Thanks! We were arguing about this song at our "Friday-night pickin'" tonight--glad you posted the tab, so we can argue next week about whether it's the way we play it or not! Lin |
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01 Sep 01 - 04:09 AM (#539516) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Cappuccino Thanks for the tab - I'd been looking for that for ages. - IanB |
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01 Sep 01 - 06:00 PM (#539842) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Justa Picker (refreshing, in case there are others wanting the tab for this.) |
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02 Sep 01 - 06:17 AM (#540096) Subject: RE: 'Freight Train' Almost Revisited... From: Wolfgang Darwin Awards celebrate the theory of evolution by commemorating the remains of those who improved our gene pool by removing themselves from it in really stupid ways. (from their website) A person who is still alive isn't eligible for the Darwin award by definiton. Wolfgang |