Drunk Man Nearly Gets Away With Trainjacking

(EUGENE) - On Wednesday at about 1:10 AM, deputies from the Lane County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the Union Pacific railroad tracks near Judkins Point on the report of an intoxicated subject trying to drive a Union Pacific locomotive engine.

After being confronted, the subject was reported to be harassing the train crew and refusing to leave.

The engineer of the train reported that the subject had snuck onto the locomotive and had depressed several levers and buttons, initiating about half of the sequence necessary to move the locomotive.

When confronted, the subject stated something about wanting to drive the train and became upset about being ordered to leave.

A Ddeputy contacted the subject, identified as 22-year-old Caleb Gary, a transient, a short distance away.

Gary was taken into custody without incident and lodged at the Lane County Jail on charges of Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle and Criminal Trespass in the 1st degree.

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Henry Ruark January 26, 2007 8:09 am (Pacific time)

Q: Yrs begs question; in reality crimes of those-mentioned costing you and "us" billions...see othr story for documentation re dollars-lost in every Oregon community. A joke pleases all...but this ain't funny any longer.

question; January 26, 2007 6:58 am (Pacific time)

say Dick Cheney and Karl Rove had stolen two trains in Salem.,same time., identical locomotives.,same number of empty cars.,and obviously the same, exact, bodyweight,.and they roar off at the same speed to Bonneville Dam and crash over the spillway at the same time..,which one hits the bottom first?.., one recently conducted poll's standard reply was..., who cares?

Carmen January 25, 2007 7:05 pm (Pacific time)

Man this is laugh out loud funny.

Henry Ruark January 25, 2007 6:55 pm (Pacific time)

Oso: Bush would have pushed wrong button --and blown away front-end of loco...and where was Cheney-man, to toot the whistle while working his way through any rules-book denying him that privilege.

Osotan January 25, 2007 4:32 pm (Pacific time)

sounds like president Bush

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