Comment on Anon likes trains

• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who said anything about hijacking? Think explosives etc.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or driving it into a sky scraper !!!

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Don’t jinx it.

        As I said in another reply, too late, by twenty-one years.

        And yet, no TSA-like bullshit.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Madrid, 2004.

      Didn’t cause security theater, though. 🤷‍♂️

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      • mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Those are dense packed commuter trains from more than 20 years ago. Sort of the opposite of comfortable long distance trains now days.

        If you search for “bomb train” you’ll get results but it might be worth looking deeper than the headline.

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• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or Under Siege 2.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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