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- Subject: Re: Ghetto Grills
- Message-ID: <B16euB2w165w@1776.COM>
- From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:20:10 EST
- References: <1992Nov16.144009.28019@stsci.edu>
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- stevray@stsci.edu (Don Stevens-Rayburn) writes:
- > The 1960s were a more innocent time. There were not many incidents of peo-
- > ple deliberately trying to kill or maim railway workers in the Canadian
- > prairie.
-
- In those days the Boston commuter trains had a lot of trouble with young
- punks throwing rocks and bottles at the trains, putting iron bars across the
- tracks, etc., etc. If anything, it was worse then than it is now. Maybe
- the penalties were less severe then. Massachusetts was very slow to treat
- any form of vandalism as criminal behavior. Until 15 or 20 years ago, even
- car theft wasn't a felony unless the car was deliberately destroyed or ended
- up in a chop shop.
-
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