On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:24, cr wrote: > On Monday 01 September 2003 13:37, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:35:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > Why? Passenger and freight peacefully coexist on tracks worldwide. > > > > > > ...as does airliners and high rises. You both ignore how > > > war criminals and terrorists work; they _break_ the rules. > > > > It's kind of irrelevant though. Causing a serious railway disaster is > > dead easy - you steal a truck and cause it to fall off a bridge over a > > 125mph main line. Or you stick a contrivance involving fertiliser and > > diesel oil under one of the rails of said main line. If you want to > > make a passenger train hit something really hard, there are much > > easier choices of obstacle than a freight train. > > It probably depends whether the terrorist has been watching enough James Bond > movies. Never do it the easy simple way if you can do it the hard > complicated way. ;) > > Incidentally, even the truck-on-the-line won't normally cause a huge death > toll. Trains are remarkably crash-resistant things. If you want to kill > heaps of people, an airliner's a *much* better bet.
Besides, it *looks* sooo much more dramatic. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "...always eager to extend a friendly claw" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
