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[–] 68 points 1 year ago (21 children)

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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago (13 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Commuter trains aren’t high speed trains though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    True (though the AVE also stops at Atocha, as it did back in 2004).

    They also tend to carry more passengers, which means the number of victims was significantly larger than if it had been an AVE.

    And yet, your prediction of a nine-eleven-like security theater didn't come to pass. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Madrid, 2004.

    Didn't cause security theater, though. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Those are dense packed commuter trains from more than 20 years ago. Sort of the opposite of comfortable high speed 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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Those are dense packed commuter trains from more than 20 years ago

    So, even fucking worse when it comes to number of victims.

    If you search for “bomb train” you’ll get results

    I don't need to search for it, it was all over the news for months.

    And yet, we got over it.

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