From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Amtrak Security ? Yeah, right.
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 15:40:03 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Have you no sense of economic justice?  That's $4.50 transferred
from a bloated plutocrat to a deserved underprivileged person!

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 3:31 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Amtrak Security ? Yeah, right.

So . . .a few weeks ago I was in NYC.  Bought some books and decided to =
send them to Baltimore ahead of me.  Packed 'em up in my suitcase, lugged =
it over to Penn Station to Checked Baggage and was told that only =
passengers with reserved seating tickets could check baggage through to =
their destination.

Peons like me, with a non reserved seating ticket, could leave the =
suitcase at Checked Baggage to pick up later - for a small fee of $4.50.  =
(I'm sooooo glad they didn't say "convenience fee"  . . . )

So . . . how many "security" holes can *you* poke in this.

Y'now, I wouldn't mind most of the security hassles if they actually =
accomplished anything - other than aggravation.

mjw
I got your $4.50 right here buddy . . .