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Commuter Train Derails In California, Dozens Injured - Live Feed

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Just in case there wasn't enough on the calendar, between Yellen, Greece, consumer confidence, housing data, Richmond Fed, and of course stocks at another all time high, the latest news out of California is that a Matrolink commuter train struck at least two trucks between Oxnard and Camarilo, in a repeat of a similar tragic accident that took place in New York two weeks ago.

From NBC LA:

At least 30 people were injured when three Los Angeles-bound Metrolink train cars derailed after the train was involved in a fiery collision with a vehicle Tuesday morning between Oxnard and Camarillo.

 

The vehicle was on the Ventura County Line tracks at the time of the collision, just before 6 a.m., according to Metrolink. Several cars were on their sides near 5th Street and Rice Avenue and the vehicle, described as a utility truck, was on fire after the crash about 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

 

Details regarding the conditions of the injured victims were not immediately available. Fire-rescue personnel set up a color-coded triage area with green, yellow and red tarps at the site. The tarps indicate the severity of the victim's injuries, with red being the most serious and green indicating minor injuries.

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Finally, here is the live feed courtesy of NBC:

 

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Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:24 | 5822447 Firewood
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Indian Rail system USSA.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:30 | 5822485 Newsboy
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How did those trucks get stalled on the tracks before dawn?

That's the question.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:34 | 5822498 Pinto Currency
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Dog bites man story.

Not worthy of ZH attention.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:47 | 5822558 NoDebt
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The whole damned country is derailed, but nobody seems very bothered by it.

Fuck it, let's go bowling.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:35 | 5822655 SumTing Wong
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30 people hurt? They must have had a bunch in the back of that pickup, because no way in hell there are 30 Americans riding a train. Every American has to be in his own pickup instead of using public transportation. 

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:46 | 5822911 Pool Shark
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Just wait 'till we get that 'Bullet Train.'

Lots of high-speed crashy-goodness...

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:06 | 5822997 MisterMousePotato
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It's bad when they're on their sides like that, isn't it?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 15:25 | 5823328 Ignatius
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Geezus, people, 60 response comments on this.

Nothin' draws a crowd like a train wreck, I guess.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:03 | 5822751 WhoIsJohnGaltCoin
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a certain Atlas Shrugged chapter comes to mind...

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:47 | 5822919 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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MGTOW come to my mind also.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:49 | 5822565 Frank N. Beans
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Oh I don't know, the train wreck metaphor comes to mind.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:54 | 5822589 samcontrol
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USA becoming more and more like Argentina ,India and the planet of the apes.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:41 | 5822687 Sanity Bear
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I wonder if someone may be hacking vehicles to bring them to a stop on the tracks? Certainly possible with modern vehicles.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:32 | 5822489 y3maxx
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...Very likely a Multiple banker suicides in one go.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:46 | 5822550 Payne
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Too unpredictable an outcome.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:55 | 5822592 SWRichmond
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The thing that I'd like to stress is this: see how easy it is to fuck up a complex system and cause massive economic losses?  These fuckheads in DC who think they're the masters of the universe because they can overthrow small governments, using unlimited funds and manpower, forget just how easy it truly is to fuck something up.  It's really hard to build and maintain something, and it requires a lot of people who care enough to do the right thing every day.

But fucking shit up?  Child's play.  A six year old boy is a more destructive agent of entropy than any shithead master of the unverse in DC ever dreamed about being.

Chaos in Ukraine, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Syria?  Spreading misery globally?  Easy.  But building something meaningful, positive, and lasting?  It's completely beyond their capabilities. 

 

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:24 | 5822817 lunaticfringe
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I liked your comment.

The problem with fucking shit up is that is has turned into the perfect conduit for government to steal us blind.

After supporting the murderous Bin Laden in Afghanistan, Bin Laden turned on the USA and killed a bunch of us. Thus we have the Constitution nullifying Patriot Act and the 50,000 man army the TSA- which does nothing except seize innocent people's property and fail to return it.

After taking bribes from bankers for re-election bids, politicians removed the last controls on banks. The banks turned on them and destroyed our entire way of life in 2008. Not only have we lost millions upon millions of jobs- but we lost our benefits- our healthcare. Enter government. Now the fucking government just steals our money to pay for some of the shittiest health care benefits on the planet. 

So every time some shit gets fucked up, go ahead and laugh. But you will be the one getting the bill. 

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:13 | 5823029 Steaming_Wookie_Doo
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Exactly. We could go and defeat Germany, Italy and Japan in less than 5 yrs in WWII. We've taken over 10 years to not defeat a bunch of goat herders with an army of over 100K, and every smart, radioactive or otherwise lethal ordinance. This is no accident, though it's meant to appear that way.

So now they're gonna fix ghetto rats by giving them a free community college edumacayshun too? That fix will render the cheapest and most approachable college worthless or unobtainable, being packed with unwilling chair-warmers. And the list goes on...

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:38 | 5823142 SWRichmond
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I neg'd you for the ghetto rats comment.  The black community is a model, and was perhaps a test case, for what is happening / being done right now to the white middle class in the US: utter destruction, starting with destruction of the family structure (removal of fathers from homes), destruction of the culture (destruction of the family, removal of fathers from homes, importation of addictive drugs with cash flow benefitting black-ops agencies, feminist takeover of the public education system and family courts, destruction of values, lowering of standards, glorification of self-destructive pop culture), ending with utter dependence on the government for life itself.  It's happening to whites right now; can't you see that?

We could go and defeat Germany, Italy and Japan in less than 5 yrs in WWII. We've taken over 10 years to not defeat a bunch of goat herders with an army of over 100K, and every smart, radioactive or otherwise lethal ordinance. This is no accident, though it's meant to appear that way.

It's not an accident, but it is an indication of the viability of 4GW, and it deserves study.  You can't destroy an idea, and if you kill everyone in an occipied land there is no one left to extract wealth from, so the feudal model breaks down.  RESIST.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 17:01 | 5823868 Steaming_Wookie_Doo
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Fair enough on the pejorative, though I will point out many areas of the country where the welfare lines are lily-white. Your comments are spot on, and I do recognize that the carnage will not reside with only 1 race or class type--we are all at risk (I am assuming you are not flying a Gulfstream to Gstadt on the weekends). These evil forces win when anyone becomes dependent on the state. This, of course, can take the form of welfare, but also military, gov't worker, gov't contractor, basically anyone relying on the state for their paycheck, medicine, professional references, or sense of self-worth. This is, sadly, close to a majority of people in this country (and many others). Resistance to this must go hand in hand with competence in being able to handle the material universe (or even being literate enough to read how to do something), as well as the maturity or zen to rid oneself of the slavery of iGadgets or other flashy trappings of distraction this "culture" has to offer. 

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 21:15 | 5824880 SWRichmond
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My Toyota compact boasts 140,000 miles and has never been outside CONUS.

IMO a majority already subsist on government welfare, elegant or otherwise.

 

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:39 | 5823151 Nostradumbass
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Correct- except for this:

"Bin Laden turned on the USA and killed a bunch of us"

If you are truly one of us, on the lunatic fringe, you already know that what happened in NYC, Washington, OKC etc. were not the acts of external terror groups or individuals at all.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:42 | 5823153 Nostradumbass
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fat finger - oops

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:33 | 5822499 Hayabusa
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But officer, I was training a woman to drive and when I went to the bathroom for a minute, I was thrown off the toilet violently. I picked myself up and went to the engine.  When I asked her what happened, she said she was attempting to parallel park the train.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:25 | 5822457 Doubleguns
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ISIS  truck drivers?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:49 | 5822564 Payne
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follow on incident from the Norcal Sniper shooting at a power substation and then disappearing ?

Same thing could happen at an Airport since the landing area is not always visible from tower.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:26 | 5822459 clade7
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The only imaginable death worse than dying AT work, is dying on your WAY to work...

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:27 | 5822467 GMadScientist
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Wouldn't the way HOME from work be ever so slightly less dignified?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:33 | 5822497 clade7
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No...because after work you are at least happy the day is over, imagining a cold one, and you might also be getting road head from the chick you picked up at the carpool lot...but then again, you'd need a car for that, so you wouldnt be a train rider in the first place...

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:36 | 5822507 GMadScientist
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You can do more than get head on a train. ;)

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:27 | 5822460 GMadScientist
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Intentional?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:27 | 5822464 wendigo
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What's the bloody point of passenger trains anyway? 

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:28 | 5822473 GMadScientist
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You sent this from your phone while stuck in traffic, admit it.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:30 | 5822488 nuubee
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Virus propagation

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:57 | 5822600 A Nanny Moose
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Jawbz for crack-heads not already employed in DC.

How many passengers will die from being run over by first responders?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:27 | 5822466 Alberich
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So what high-profile bankers were among the casualties?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:28 | 5822470 Smegley Wanxalot
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The train operator was probably an illegal who just got his driver's license from Comrade Jerry Brown.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:29 | 5822481 surf0766
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Was the downer a comrade or an illegal or both?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 15:50 | 5823496 Son of Loki
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The police caught him; he was already over a mile away,heading straight for LA's "Safe Zone."

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:28 | 5822475 Frank N. Beans
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wow, there's nothing left of that truck, but I'm surprised those rail cars jumped the track at all, given their weight and momentum.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:51 | 5822725 smokintoad
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It looked like this train was operating in a "pusher" configuration, with the heavy engine pushing the relatively lighter cars ahead of it. It doesn't work out as well for the cargo of sheeple, but hey, it's cheaper than actually turning the whole train around at the end of the line.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:31 | 5822491 SofaPapa
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The increase lately of "system failures" such as this one suggests that Atlas is Shrugging.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:32 | 5822493 RaceToTheBottom
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Suicide by train

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:42 | 5822532 paint it red ca...
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How many bankers killed????????????

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:45 | 5822543 uncle_vito
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So glad we are getting a bullet train.   Talk about a crash then!

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:59 | 5822610 A Nanny Moose
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We might get a bullet, or a train. Not both.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:46 | 5822551 stant
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They come in threes like plane crashes

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:48 | 5822561 QE49er
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The passenger cars are pushed by the locomotive, whoever is dumb enough to ride the train with the locomotive pushing the train at 50-60 mph deserves this.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:57 | 5822601 TruthTalker
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pretty sure the innocent people getting on a train have no idea how it is run or why that matters - to say they deserve this is obscene and ignorant

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:36 | 5822665 QE49er
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They call the lead car the "coffin car"

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:53 | 5822580 847328_3527
Tue, 02/24/2015 - 14:56 | 5823225 Refuse-Resist
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Holy shit.

 

From the linked article" Last month, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced a bipartisan bill that would sharply increase the number of skilled guest worker visas available every year."

 

Bipartisan buggery for everyone!

FUCK YEAH!

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 11:56 | 5822595 TruthTalker
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Any high level bankers on this train?

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:35 | 5822654 mendolover
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First response looks totally different than Sandy Hook.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:40 | 5822685 22winmag
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Yeah, like the medics are actually treating victims and the ambulances are not parked hundreds of yards away.

 

Sandy Hook is a hoax. It never happened... but then again, that doesn't matter if you believe everything you hear on TV.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:58 | 5822739 americanreality
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Denial/river/Egypt

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:37 | 5822667 shovelhead
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Parking on RR crossings is never recommended by the California Dept of Motor Vehicles.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:41 | 5822692 Gnostech
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Shit, this happened here. I hope no one I knew got hurt.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:05 | 5822758 STP
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Here's my perspective of train and vehicle crossing collisions.   I think the derailments happen because the engineer on the train is braking, instead of accelerating.    The point of momentum, being the engine, is subject to the increasing build up of weight of the cars behind i.  When the lead car or engine hits the vehicle in a deceleration mode, that stacked weight has to go somewhere.  If the engineer had maintained his speed, he would've probably gone right through, without any problems.   You'll see this on freight trains that don't stop in the Midwest, when they cream full size big rigs.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:29 | 5822836 q99x2
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California public transportation bitchez.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:44 | 5822901 Falconsixone
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Now if the choppers will run in to each other and if someone could fill the fire truck with gas rather than water, throw in a coulpe of cop beatdowns of guys with his eardrums blown out and holding presure cookers still in boxes and maybe a black guy standing next to bill holder and any jew banker shaking their heads and we'd have are selves a real change some laws event.                                                  the horror .... the horror....

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:45 | 5822907 Government need...
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.Gov safety plans for mass transit working well, I see. . .

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 13:55 | 5822948 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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For a couple of seconds, I was asking myself if it was in India or USA, then I looked closer and saw kind of ambulance and police cars who are typical in America...

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 15:46 | 5823463 quietdude
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WHAT A TRAGEDY!

30 probable Democratic voters injured. Oh The Horror! Hillary will need additional Diebold cheat codes stat.

Tue, 02/24/2015 - 18:28 | 5824228 Firewood
Wed, 02/25/2015 - 00:08 | 5825503 IronForge
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IMHO  Bad Accident,

If it were sabotage on a Personal Level, it could have been a disgruntled worker or somebody may have been targeting someone who commutes on that Line.  If it were a symbolic acts of Anarchy, it probably may not be ISIL (they'd hit in a more densely populated locale for psychological effect) - maybe Greenpeace, Earth Liberation Front, or some radical White Right Winger Group - which may blame the  Aztlán Movement as a Scapegoat(since they're the ethnic Majority, have enough votes NOW to get California to Secede from the Union, and some affiliated with that "Future Secessionist Group"(as the GOPee will refer to them soon) are talking about a less than friendly "takeover" of the (California/SoOregon/etc.) Region. 

Why not Aztlán?  Demographics of the area.  Outside of Hispanics, you have Gringos in that part of SoCal.  Outside of the Navy, Asians and Negroids don't tend to gather there - too far from LA/LongBeach/OCounty Proper.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztl%C3%A1n#Use_by_the_Chicano_movement

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