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What are you going to do with a hijacked train? The moment you hijack it they’ll just shutdown power. Hostages? Good luck there are like 30 carts on the train all of which have window break tools and emergency door open tools.
Look at Germany or France. High speed trains are everywhere and there is no ID requirement beyond maybe a ticket check if you’re unlucky.
It has been done before ...
Only for Eurostar and some other international trains you get some checks when boarding, especially since Brexit.
There's barely any checks they basically glance at your passport and go, yep you have a passport, you can pass.
Presumably if there was an arrest warrant out for you there's a chance they might do something, but then again they are French so you'd have to catch them at a good time.
Yes indeed if you want to be safe book a train that leaves between 12:00 and 14:00 that's when they're at the bistrot for lunch.
Who said anything about hijacking? Think explosives etc.
Or driving it into a sky scraper !!!
What if the train is the size of Chrysler building? 🤯
Ok. Thinking explosives. Where are high speed trains being attacked by explosives? I don’t hear much in Germany, France, China, or Japan.
Don't jinx it.
My point is once a terrorist attack happens, there will be TSA like checks for getting on high speed trains.
My city (Mumbai) has seen multiple local train bombings so the newly built metro lines have baggage scanner at the entry.
Those countries arent full of Americans though. If a thing exists Americans will try to attack it.
Somebody didn't watch Christophe Lambert's The Hunted...
Or Under Siege 2.
Was that the one with the Apple Newton sending a fax?