Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:43:09 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Amtrak Security ? Yeah, right.
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Lee Strong proclaimed:

>	Have you no sense of economic justice?  That's $4.50 transferred
>from a bloated plutocrat

Y'know I've been called a lot o'things  <g>.. . . sorta feel like a =
character out of Thomas Nast cartoon.

>to a deserved underprivileged person!

Oh, I don't think his union job underpays him . . .

mjw
"Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused"  - - Elvis Costello

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>-----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 =
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>send them to Baltimore ahead of me.  Packed 'em up in my suitcase, lugged =
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>it over to Penn Station to Checked Baggage and was told that only =
>passengers with reserved seating tickets could check baggage through to =
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>their destination.
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>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.  =
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>(I'm sooooo glad they didn't say "convenience fee"  . . . )
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>So . . . how many "security" holes can *you* poke in this.
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>Y'now, I wouldn't mind most of the security hassles if they actually =
>accomplished anything - other than aggravation.
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>mjw
>I got your $4.50 right here buddy . . .
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