You must be kidding. They dropped the guy off in a forest.
Police: Diabetic Man Missing After Being Kicked Off Train
Police: Diabetic Man Missing After Being Kicked Off Train
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I thought so too, that if the train wasn't at a station, then they had to call the police to kick someone off the train. But I guess that either they don't have to do that, or someone didn't follow policy.Doesn't Amtrak have some kind of a policy for removing disorderly people from the train? Coming back to Chicago from LosAngeles, I was on a train where a disorderly passenger was removed at a station with the police waiting there for him.
I would hope someone on the crew would have called for medical advice first before calling the cops and dumping him on a crossing in the woods. It's the diabetics responsibility to maintain but a little education goes a long way in helping someone in need. HYPOGLYCEMIA AND "INSULIN SHOCK"Something just doesn't make sense here. The police saw him, at the crossing, but they couldn't catch a 65 year-old man who was going into diabetic shock, who simply ran into the woods, in their terrotory? What's wrong with this picture? It doesn't say they ran after him, or that they tried to find him, does it? Amtrak, right or wrong, removed him from the train, but apparently waited until the police were on the scene. Maybe their diagnosis was faulty, but it sounds like they at least left him in the presence of the police, who then let a 65 year-old diabetic going into shock outrun them......... We're missing some relevant pieces of the narrative, I think.
Roosevelt Sims, 65, had finally retired.
So for his first vacation ever, the steel mill worker hopped on an Amtrak train in St. Louis and headed to Los Angeles to visit his family.
He would only get as far as Williams, Ariz., when, according to an Amtrak spokesperson, the conductor determined Sims was intoxicated.
This reminds me of another thread:You must be kidding. They dropped the guy off in a forest.Police: Diabetic Man Missing After Being Kicked Off Train
This reminds me of another thread:You must be kidding. They dropped the guy off in a forest.
Police: Diabetic Man Missing After Being Kicked Off Train
Amtrak's outrageous treatment of passengers
Amtrak should be held accountable!
Hmmm. Maybe "Not an Amtrak Fan" is "Lucifer" of "Amtrak's outrageous treatment of passengers." Can't see any other reason for someone to try to resurrect that irrational rant.This reminds me of another thread:You must be kidding. They dropped the guy off in a forest.
Police: Diabetic Man Missing After Being Kicked Off Train
Amtrak's outrageous treatment of passengers
Amtrak should be held accountable!
Roosevelt Sims, the diabetic man who was put off an Amtrak train in the middle of an Arizona forest for unruly behavior that Amtrak personnel assessed as alcohol-related, was found last night four days after his disappearance. Carrying a walking stick and wearing only his underwear, he was discovered beside a railroad track three miles south of the nearest town.
It's a happy ending to a story that could have been tragic. The diabetes aspect of the situation, however, is less clear than initial reports indicated.
No, the man was already on the train when it pulled into Williams Junction. It was the police officer who was parking his car, so that he could pick up the man being taken off the train.Some of the information does not add up here. It says the man parked his car and tried to board the train. I have boarded the train at Williams Junction, which is indeed at a remote location a few miles east of town. Private autos are not permitted on BNSF property ( although I have driven in there myself to check the place out. ) Passengers are brought out from downtown Williams by the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel's van. Passengers check in with hotel staff in the lobby. The station patform for Amtrak is indeed in an obscure location out in the forest. There are no signs.
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