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LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts) Fri Dec 5, 2014, 11:58 PM Dec 2014

Multiple people stabbed on Amtrak train from Chicago to Port Huron [View all]

Source: Channel 7 Action News - Detroit

"NILES, Mich. (WXYZ) - The Niles Police Department confirms to 7 Action News multiple people have been stabbed aboard an Amtrak train. The train was headed from Chicago to Port Huron.

Police say four people were stabbed, including the conductor. One man from Saginaw is in custody.

It happened at the train station in Niles about 7 p.m. Amtrak says Train 364 was where is happened, and 172 people were on board.

Niles is on the southwest side of the state, about 10 miles north of South Bend, Indiana."

Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/news/multiple-people-stabbed-on-amtrak-train-in-michigan

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Multiple people stabbed on Amtrak train from Chicago to Port Huron [View all] LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 OP

Yipes! Agschmid Dec 2014 #1

Indeed.... LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 #6

In South Florida mia Dec 2014 #11

I travel on Amtrak in California. The lower level is for seniors and disabled people. JDPriestly Dec 2014 #12

Agreed!! LovingA2andMI Dec 2014 #13

Lots of babysitting grandmas on the lower leve. I can vouch for that. I talk to people a lot. JDPriestly Dec 2014 #16

I also travel Amtrak in California. Le Taz Hot Dec 2014 #22

So right about the ease of rail travel and the discomfort of cramped, stifling air travel. JDPriestly Dec 2014 #23

Wow! Just last night my sweetie and I were just saying how fun WhiteTara Dec 2014 #2

Thank goodness he didn't have a gun Applan Dec 2014 #3

If the route is tortuous with nothing but concrete sound barriers for scenery littlemissmartypants Dec 2014 #4

cue the gun nuts saying LiberalElite Dec 2014 #5

it's how stupid people think Skittles Dec 2014 #7

But, they think they're LiberalElite Dec 2014 #8

that's part of being stupid Skittles Dec 2014 #10

No. We leave that to British doctors associations hack89 Dec 2014 #14

Say it! Go ahead, I know you want to, say it! Darb Dec 2014 #15

Since guns will never be banned hack89 Dec 2014 #17

Isn't that the typically unfunny retort from the gun hoarders Darb Dec 2014 #18

I view such comments the same way I view comments like "gun humpers" or any penis reference hack89 Dec 2014 #19

name your source, please JanMichael Dec 2014 #20

The FBI hack89 Dec 2014 #21

No. JanMichael Dec 2014 #24

Ok. hack89 Dec 2014 #25

link JanMichael Dec 2014 #27

I will in a couple of hours hack89 Dec 2014 #28

You could also look at post 26. nt hack89 Dec 2014 #29

OR JanMichael Dec 2014 #30

I am on a old phone hack89 Dec 2014 #31

"high maintenance" JanMichael Dec 2014 #32

You really think I can't? hack89 Dec 2014 #33

Too lazy to look at a post in this thread Duckhunter935 Dec 2014 #34

You know they Googled it themselves hack89 Dec 2014 #35

Googled it, found out you were right, now nothing but crickets. (Some data) NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #37

Bogus. Selective stats. #1 - There has been a huge decrease in gun death since 1993. HUGE. JanMichael Dec 2014 #40

I don't give a shit what you think. Got a problem with the numbers? Take it up with the FBI NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #41

Then we are at an agreement. I do not give a shit about what you think either. JanMichael Dec 2014 #42

Rifles are not commonly used Duckhunter935 Dec 2014 #26

1490 knife murders in 2013 vice 285 rifle murders hack89 Dec 2014 #38

Table showing a steady 20 year decline in all violent crimes hack89 Dec 2014 #39

Fear of traveling anywhere mia Dec 2014 #9

Wow... christx30 Dec 2014 #36