What do you mean there’s already been terrorist attacks on trains but nobody really cares because it’s a train.
Comment on Anon likes trains
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 months ago
If high speed rail becomes popular, all that stands between the current freedom and ID-required tickets and fingering by agents is one terrorist attack, staged or not.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 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.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Who, me? The furthest west I’ve been was Wales.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 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 😉
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 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).
remon@ani.social 3 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.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 3 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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’m sure they’d finger you if you asked nicely, and have showered recently.
oldfart@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I hope they don’t find any lump
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Are you sure? There’s at least one lump I hope they find, but it’s kind of deep up in there.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
in china there are similar security checks for high speed rail
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 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
mholiv@lemmy.world 3 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.
remon@ani.social 3 months ago
It has been done before …
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Only for Eurostar and some other international trains you get some checks when boarding, especially since Brexit.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 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.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 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.
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Who said anything about hijacking? Think explosives etc.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Or driving it into a sky scraper !!!
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What if the train is the size of Chrysler building? 🤯
mholiv@lemmy.world 3 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.
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 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.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
Those countries arent full of Americans though. If a thing exists Americans will try to attack it.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Madrid, 2004.
Didn’t cause security theater, though. 🤷♂️
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Somebody didn’t watch Christophe Lambert’s The Hunted…
LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 3 months ago
Or Under Siege 2.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Was that the one with the Apple Newton sending a fax?