Please Don’t Poop On Passing Trains

[Little Star]

It seems some locals have been bored this summer in the small suburban town.

The Uxbridge Police Department has a message for people that want to spend their time standing on an overpass, dropping their pants and defecating on passing trains: clean up your act, or face charges for the fecal funny business.

That bizarre message was part of a Facebook post the department put up on July 8, after they received reports from P & W Railroad workers one day prior that four people were allegedly lingering on the railroad bridge above the oncoming train cars before unloading human excrement onto the passing vehicles.

“The most recent complaint from P&W Railroad is that people are defecating [sic] off of bridges onto the trains as they pass by,” police said in a statement. “Yes, you read that right. We have no idea what would possess someone to drop their pants and poop on a passing train, but guess what, it is happening.”
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/07/10/uxbridge-police-poop-on-trains/

Alrighty then!

[pinto]

1. Whaa? Bizarre and childish.

Big train fan here...

[Little Star]

2. I love trains too......

Dang those young people!

[pinto]

6. I've gone cross country (Boston - LA) a number of times. LA - TX ~ once a year or so.

It takes a little "accommodating", but I've learned the tricks and have the time. I'm going to do the LA - Seattle run sometime.

[Little Star]

11. Years ago I took a train from Framingham to Chicago....

to take my daughter to Wilton Cake Decorating School in Darien, IL I think it was. It was a slow slog. Then the car rental. I had wished I'd had just drove it. I should have brought some books with me.

There is one train trip I'd love to make and that's this one..
Alaska's National Parks by Rail

[pinto]

13. Ah geez. That looks beautiful.

Yeah, training can be a slow slog. I always carry reading material, snacks, stuff to pass the time. Plus, cross country I splurge one night on a diner car meal. You get to meet other riders over a meal. And I chat up the train attendants on a long trip. The west coast trains are two tiered, so there's an observation car. All windows. If you get a nod and a wink from an attendant it's OK to stretch out on a bench with a blanket and pillow after the usual daytime crowd has gone to their rooms or the seats. Sleep under the stars.

[tblue37]

25. The article doesn't mean that people riding the trains are pooping.

It means that people who are not on the train are getting up above the train (on an overpass) and then pooping onto the train as it passes.

[pinto]

29. I got that. Just a side discussion about train riding in general.

[OriginalGeek]

34. Just keep your window closed

you can't really trust they have good aim.

[NaturalHigh]

47. I thought about that too.

I mean, how bad would it be to just pass the time, enjoying the view, perhaps inhaling a nice breath of morning air, when all of a sudden "splat"?

[OriginalGeek]

48. WHen I was in High School

our bus drove past a lot of dairy farms and cow pastures - my friend Mark loved to stick his head out the window and inhale deeply and holler "I LOOOOVE the smell of cow pasture in the morning!"

until we told him that odor was really just microscopic particles of the thing you smelled.*












*we didn't know if that was true. We were talking out our asses. We were headed to christian school. They didn't teach us shit.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

54. Shouldn't you have said "They didn't teach us ABOUT shit." ?

[OriginalGeek]

56. I thought that went without saying..

it certainly didn't go without smelling!

Poor Mark was eating shit nearly his whole High School career.

[Orrex]

3. Now that's what I call potty training.

It's hard to understand some people's loco motives.

[riqster]

4. Two puns in one! DUzy!

[pinto]

7. LOL (nt)

[jberryhill]

14. A poor attempt to derail the discussion

[Orrex]

18. Don't track that shit in here, buddy.

[Arugula Latte]

28. It seems like you're letting off steam.

[Little Star]

33. Town tells kids to cut the shit!

[Orrex]

35. Or.... Leave a tender moment alone

[Little Star]

38. This shit really pissed them off!

[Little Star]

19. The article gave me a chuckle here.....

The manager said this type of thing has happened more than once (making it a number two).

[Orrex]

22. Who would engineer such a stunt?

[underpants]

23. You're railing on a roll and picking up steam

[L0oniX]

42. Yer bad!

[clarice]

5. I've got a new slogan for P&W railroad..."Don't let loose, on our caboose" nt

[steve2470]

31. that was clever nt

[clarice]

32. Thank you. nt

[madokie]

8. All righty then

LOL

[mylye2222]

9. Oh, poor abused trains!

Seriously: has this Dept. nothing better to do???? This place might be really boring, for they have to pass such IMPOSTANT messages!

[jberryhill]

43. it's a serious hazard

People dropping anything from an overpass onto an oncoming train is a serious safety hazard. This could injure, sicken, or impair the operators.

[steve2470]

46. especially sicken lol nt

[William769]

10. No trains in my area.

First I have heard of this practice.

WOW!

[Little Star]

12. It was a first for me too.

[TexasProgresive]

16. No freight trains either?

We don't have passenger service but the freights are constantly rolling by

[William769]

17. Nope. Just a local dinner train with no over passes.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. I believe that should be every parent's advice to their children as they go off into the world. nt

[pinboy3niner]

20. I can live with that admonition. At least I think I can, I think I can...

[Art_from_Ark]

36. I knew I could

[dilby]

21. They are just fine with Graffiti all over their cars

but a little poop and all of a sudden it's a big deal. Let me guess, the trains are probably transporting coal.

[underpants]

24. Trouble ahead Trouble (from) behind

and you know that movement
just crossed my mind

[MindPilot]

26. Pretty common to see people mooning the train, but this is a new twist.

They also like to throw rocks at the train, but feces is something that has not yet made its way (thankfully) into my train-riding experience.

[get the red out]

27. My dog wouldn't do that!

But she does like to pee on the end of the mini-teeter-totter we practice on at home

[jberryhill]

44. practice what on?

What is it that one practices on a teeter totter?

[get the red out]

50. dog agility

Our hobby!

[steve2470]

30. " Don't crap on my train, bro ! " , Is that like " Don't rain on my parade " ?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

37. Perhaps, flying a yellow banner with a coiled turn and Don't Crap On Me will help.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

39. Blame Family Guy...

http://www.noob.us/humor/family-guy-douchebags/

[Arcanetrance]

40. Damn when I was a kid we just hopped the freight trains and see how far we'd get

[surrealAmerican]

41. How do people even do this?

Are there many people who can accurately time their defecation?

... or are the trains stopped under the overpass?

... or are these freight trains that take more than a few minutes to go through the underpass?


... so many questions here ...

[MadrasT]

55. That was what was running through my head...

...I am just trying to figure out the logistics. How would you even do that? are they sure people aren't pre-pooping, bringing it in a bad, and then tossing it down?

I mean... what... you hang your ass over the side of a bridge and just... poop? Who could even poop like that?

[NaturalHigh]

45. This is some good stuff.

These people must have skills. I would be afraid of falling over the rail.

[Initech]

49. Bill Maher was right.

We're a bunch of lazy, self-obsessed slobs who won't be happy until we can go to the mall wearing a diaper.

[B Calm]

51. Must be a republican pastime, they're the only ones I know who enjoy

shitting on people!

[JHB]

52. Are George Wil's whereabouts accounted for at the time of the incidents?

He's positively apoplectic on the subject of trains. Not quite rational on the matter. And with that prim, bespectacled image he cultivates? Who'd suspect?

[RKP5637]

53. All pooped out after a hard days work!

[Spirochete]

57. That's hardly the way

people should conduct themselves in public...