West Coast shippers lock-out

[thermite]

If they are breaking into cargo containers on a train why has the FBI not stepped in? If they operate in groups it is a RICO violation. Several years in a federal pen tends to stop repeat offenders.
Bill D

By most reasonable observations, the FBI is in RICO violation. IRS as well.

Folks thought we had organized crime in control of the Government?

They were wrong.

It is NOT "organized". Crime, yes. Organized, not at all. It is simply FUBAR.

 

[EmGo]

Well in LA they are cutting out the middle man and looting cargo containers. "Supply Chains Threatened As Thieves Hit Cargo Shipments"

Anyone who is dumb enough to believe that video needs their head examined.

First there's a shot of a wall of graffiti with a bunch of cardboard boxes blown up against it. Whoa, what a shock. Train tracks in industrial areas are usually spic and span !

Then we see two darkly-complected fellows in brand new hoodies running alongside and jumping onto a freight. I've stood within touching distance of trains as they go by (touch each car, get a prize). Hopping on is not as easy as it looks. Right about now for some reason I am thinking ABC and the exploding gas tanks.

Then they supposedly cut the locks off containers and remove the goodies. Two people. In new walmart sweatshirts and jeans. Train a mile and a half long running 30 or 40 or 50 by now.

What do they do with the goodies next ? Has anyone here ever seen a microwave that's been thrown off a train at 30 ? You're not going to get even $10 for that on craigslist. And then what ? Their buddy in a new Dodge V10 diesel follows the tracks from LA to Phoenix picking up the smashed toaster ovens ? Without anyone noticing ? Which the thieves carefully removed from the boxes to make youtube unboxing videos, then threw the boxes next to the tracks for the news crew to find ? What are they going to do with this junk, sell them at the scrap yard for $1.50 each ?

And then this brilliant 23 year old unpaid intern tells us there is no warehouse space in LA so the rest of the country will have to miss Christmas. Excuse me miss but places like Lowes, Walgreen's, Macy's, Sak's Fifth Avenue, Nordstroms, they have their own fucking warehouses and they are near the cities they serve, not in LA.

Fuck me, what a bunch of dunderheads.

 

[Bill D]

I will check back on this thread in another twenty years, again. I bet by then global warming will have submerged all the port facilities. I bet the trumpers are saying it is a Biden plot that all the port cities are on the coasts and barely above sea level.
Bill D

 

[thermite]

I will check back on this thread in another twenty years, again. I bet by then global warming will have submerged all the port facilities. I bet the trumpers are saying it is a Biden plot that all the port cities are on the coasts and barely above sea level.
Bill D

But they are not.

All on the seacoast.

Port of Baltimore out-tonnaged Port of New York/New Jersey back in the years the greater New York City Unions were being overly rude.

Philadelphia has a port. The Hudson is a "drowned fiord" DEEP... hence navigable quite a ways above NYC.

Port of Houston uses a ship channel. Great Lakes system exists.

Mississippi and tributaries barge traffic is serious business, reaches into the mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but not-only.

A rise in sea level pushes navigable range further UP our rivers.

And then.. the long-term solution is dead easy and brute-simple:

Cease BUYING s**t from China.

Cease SHIPPING raw materials and foodstuffs TO China.

BTW.. check the sea level rise and warming maps for the effect on the lands between Western Russia and Eastern. Siberia becomes an inland sea. Well. A submerged marsh, sort-of. Too shallow for navigation. Or railways. To and from China. Xin Loy!

End of problem?

In more ways than one!

Wonder how a Feudal system with a "Communist" camouflage smock handles 1.4 billion mouths going hungry ... in the dark? Certainly not smoothly!

Tolja it was DEAD easy? That was not a figure of speech.

 

[standardparts]

Anyone who is dumb enough to believe that video needs their head examined.

First there's a shot of a wall of graffiti with a bunch of cardboard boxes blown up against it. Whoa, what a shock. Train tracks in industrial areas are usually spic and span !

Then we see two darkly-complected fellows in brand new hoodies running alongside and jumping onto a freight. I've stood within touching distance of trains as they go by (touch each car, get a prize). Hopping on is not as easy as it looks. Right about now for some reason I am thinking ABC and the exploding gas tanks.

Then they supposedly cut the locks off containers and remove the goodies. Two people. In new walmart sweatshirts and jeans. Train a mile and a half long running 30 or 40 or 50 by now.

What do they do with the goodies next ? Has anyone here ever seen a microwave that's been thrown off a train at 30 ? You're not going to get even $10 for that on craigslist. And then what ? Their buddy in a new Dodge V10 diesel follows the tracks from LA to Phoenix picking up the smashed toaster ovens ? Without anyone noticing ? Which the thieves carefully removed from the boxes to make youtube unboxing videos, then threw the boxes next to the tracks for the news crew to find ? What are they going to do with this junk, sell them at the scrap yard for $1.50 each ?

And then this brilliant 23 year old unpaid intern tells us there is no warehouse space in LA so the rest of the country will have to miss Christmas. Excuse me miss but places like Lowes, Walgreen's, Macy's, Sak's Fifth Avenue, Nordstroms, they have their own fucking warehouses and they are near the cities they serve, not in LA.

Fuck me, what a bunch of dunderheads.

NBC--- No way would NBC make things up. NBC...Home of 'Meet The Press' with Chuck Todd. NBC is owned by Comcast----HUGE Biden Obama backer$$$$$$$ C'mon man. Get serious.

 

[standardparts]

I will check back on this thread in another twenty years, again. I bet by then global warming will have submerged all the port facilities. I bet the trumpers are saying it is a Biden plot that all the port cities are on the coasts and barely above sea level.
Bill D

Would not surprise me at all that in 20 years TDS would still reign supreme on PM.....as for Biden-he's busy with making the ports run 24/7. LMAO. 24/7! What a dork.

 

[standardparts]

Maybe they should unload those ships in Wisconsin. Last I knew California was a blue state. Pretty much all ports are in Democrat cities. Not really looking like it's going to change soon either so get used to it.

Ever notice that those Democrat cities that you always bitch about are where the work gets done?

Yeah. Sure. Democrat cities "where the work gets done"-- BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA