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Diabetic Man Kicked Off Train Found Alive

Whoo boy…

A 65-year-old St. Louis man who Amtrak personnel kicked off a train in the middle of a national forest in Williams has been found dehydrated and disoriented two miles from where he was dropped off.

When you see a story like that, you’re thinking “lawsuit” after the first sentence. Then you start getting into it, a little.

Amtrak officials said train workers followed policy when they put off the train a man they thought was drunk, but the man’s family says he was in diabetic shock at the time.

Police said Roosevelt Sims, a factory worker who had just retired last week, was discovered Thursday night walking along the railroad tracks barefoot by Coconino County sheriff’s deputies.

He was rushed to a Flagstaff hospital for emergency treatment, deputies said.

Sims headed to Los Angeles [2] but was asked to leave the train shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday at a railroad crossing five miles outside Williams.

Well, the case has risen to the state of arguable.  But clearly, somebody’s policy is out of whack, here.  I can’t imagine that this isn’t going to court.  The sad part is, this will be the last time we’ll hear all of this.

I can hear the commercial now; Amtrak… all the sensitivity of the post office, except we have trains.

Keep in mind, that these are the same type of people we’re supposed to turn our Healthcare system over to….