Devil's Advocate
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You say I take your words too literally, but you're not describing vague intuitions so much as you're making rather specific accusations, or "suggestions" as you call them. Suggestions that apparently have no connection to the current situation beyond having occurred on Amtrak at some point.Once again being far too literal! I have seen people badger the heck out of a conductor because they either failed to get off at the correct stop or because they boarded to help someone else and didn't get off in time. I've seen them standing there screaming at the top of their lungs demanding that the conductor immediately stop the train and reverse it so that they can get off, instead of having to ride to the next stop and double back.
1. There is no indication that any emergency break was pulled.I have witnessed one particularly irate passenger who after not getting their demands met by the conductor, proceeded to go and pull the emergency brake. She did get her wish to get off the train, and she did get a ride, but it wasn't back to her missed stop. It was to the police station.
2. There is no indication any police were involved.
3. There is no indication that anyone was irate or belligerent.
Or is that too literal?
I agree we don't know the whole story, but I'm hard pressed to come up with an easy explanation for placing even half of the blame on the customers. Amtrak LD trains stop all the time in my experience. Sometimes it's right next to a station, but if it's not the official spot for disembarking you're still not getting off. End of story. In the middle of the night I'd be just as groggy and spaced out as anyone else. And I'd be expecting someone to let me know when it was time to go. That's one of very few tasks I do actually expect of today's SCA's. Is that really too much to ask and, if so, why?