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Crazy Eights incident (the train that ran away) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 days ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Police officers tried to starve the engine of diesel fuel and shut it down by shooting at the red fuel cutoff button

Lol they thought they were in an action movie.

[–] pwalshj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"...when three shots mistakenly hit the larger red fuel cap."

JFC. So that means an actual engineer was there to tell them about that button. Then they told him to shutup and started shooting at the train to make it comply. 'This isn't working. We're gonna need a bigger gun!'

[–] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

The train should have stopped resisting

[–] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Well technically this story was turned into a movie…