Comment on Anon likes trains

RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are you going to do with a hijacked train? The moment you hijack it they’ll just shutdown power. Hostages? Good luck there are like 30 carts on the train all of which have window break tools and emergency door open tools.

  Look at Germany or France. High speed trains are everywhere and there is no ID requirement beyond maybe a ticket check if you’re unlucky.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are you going to do with a hijacked train? The moment you hijack it they’ll just shutdown power. Hostages? Good luck there are like 30 carts on the train all of which have window break tools and emergency door open tools.

    It has been done before …

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only for Eurostar and some other international trains you get some checks when boarding, especially since Brexit.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s barely any checks they basically glance at your passport and go, yep you have a passport, you can pass.

      Presumably if there was an arrest warrant out for you there’s a chance they might do something, but then again they are French so you’d have to catch them at a good time.

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      • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes indeed if you want to be safe book a train that leaves between 12:00 and 14:00 that’s when they’re at the bistrot for lunch.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who said anything about hijacking? Think explosives etc.

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or driving it into a sky scraper !!!

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What if the train is the size of Chrysler building? 🤯

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    • mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok. Thinking explosives. Where are high speed trains being attacked by explosives? I don’t hear much in Germany, France, China, or Japan.

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t jinx it.

        My point is once a terrorist attack happens, there will be TSA like checks for getting on high speed trains.

        My city (Mumbai) has seen multiple local train bombings so the newly built metro lines have baggage scanner at the entry.

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Those countries arent full of Americans though. If a thing exists Americans will try to attack it.

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      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Madrid, 2004.

        Didn’t cause security theater, though. 🤷‍♂️

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  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Somebody didn’t watch Christophe Lambert’s The Hunted…

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    • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or Under Siege 2.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Was that the one with the Apple Newton sending a fax?

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What do you mean there’s already been terrorist attacks on trains but nobody really cares because it’s a train.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shhh! It’s an american, he can’t comprehend high speed trains.

    They are already wildly popular in diverse regions in europe btw.

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    • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who, me? The furthest west I’ve been was Wales.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sorry, I thought someone who didn’t know speedtrains aren’t already wildly popular, and has already been targeted by terrorists must be american. Take that as you like 😉

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• leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  one terrorist attack

  Had one in 2004, didn’t result in security theater (though its mishandling did almost certainly result in the ruling party losing the election).

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• remon@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We don’t even have that stuff on flights here (at least within Schengen). On my last 4 flights I had to show my ID once and all you have to do is stand in the scanner thing for a second.

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  • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I never had actual cavity search but it varies within Shengen. Germany is the least pleasant, always some problem. Last time they insisted on searching a preschooler.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure they’d finger you if you asked nicely, and have showered recently.

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  • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope they don’t find any lump

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you sure? There’s at least one lump I hope they find, but it’s kind of deep up in there.

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• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  in china there are similar security checks for high speed rail

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Has to harm billionaire asset to matter. Killing the rest of us is a game billionaires already enjoy and would applaud the Panem twist of a visiting team

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