{"id":310,"date":"2005-07-25T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/theres_a_right_way_and_a_wrong_way_to_chew_out_amtrak.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:26:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:26:04","slug":"theres_a_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/theres_a_right.html","title":{"rendered":"There’s A Right Way And A Wrong Way To Chew Out Amtrak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though Amtrak sometimes makes you want to scream, “I’d much rather pay for 15 minutes of war in Iraq than take care of your $1.5 billion operating budget deficit,” there is a right way and a wrong way to express your dissatisfaction with its service. Yesterday offered an example of the wrong way<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A man who falsely claimed to have a bomb in his bag prompted the authorities to evacuate Pennsylvania Station for more than an hour yesterday, causing delays for travelers across the Northeast and punctuating a tiresome week of increased security in New York City’s subway stations.<\/p>\n

During a dispute with an Amtrak ticket agent, the man, whom the police identified as Raul Claudio, 43, of the Bronx, placed a bag on a ticket counter and said a bomb was inside, the police said. The threat was unsubstantiated, but caused personnel including National Guardsmen in military fatigues to clear the station just after noon.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By way of advice, gentlemen, women do not find it appealing when you lose it in front of Amtrak employees — and trust me, I’ve been there:<\/p>\n

“When we were in line, he said he had a bomb in the bag,” said a woman who had accompanied Mr. Claudio to the station who would identify herself only as Milagros, 46. She said that Mr. Claudio, who was pulling a suitcase on wheels, had become upset when the ticket agent could not retrieve his reservation.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

At the Amtrak ticket counter yesterday, Mr. Claudio threw a sandwich in a bag against a wall and left the line after the agent could not find his reservation, “and then he got more mad,” said Milagros, who said she was his former girlfriend<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After he entered a different line, he was taken aside for questioning by the police. She said that she did not hear him make a threat to a ticket agent, but that people in the line may have heard his earlier remark to her about a bomb in his bag, though she knew he was not serious. “His mouth always gets him into trouble,” she said.<\/em> [Emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though Amtrak sometimes makes you want to scream, “I’d much rather pay for 15 minutes of war in Iraq than take care of your $1.5 billion operating budget deficit,” there is a right way and a wrong way to express your dissatisfaction with its service. Yesterday offered an example of the wrong way: A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}