Re: Big Brouhaha Over Unaccompanied Minors Being Removed From Train
Author: Coal Slaw
Date: 04-12-2012 - 19:10
Eugene Salinsky Wrote:
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> I know of a case years ago on a "major commuter
> rail carrier in the Los Angeles area" (do I need
> to draw you a picture?) where a divorced father
> dropped his son off at "Station A", with the
> understanding that the divorced mother (or stepdad
> or new boyfriend) would pick the kid up at
> "Station B", about forty miles and a couple of
> counties away. We can all guess what happened.
> No one was at "Station B" to pick the kid up. If
> the kid decided to flee the scene at that point
> out of frustration and anger, the carrier has no
> legal authority (that I know of) to detain him.
> To make a long story short, the commuter rail
> carrier had to hire a van that's normally used to
> transport train crews to ferry the kid back to his
> point of origin and his Dad's place. That
> probably put a crimp in Dad's style. Dad probably
> already had the new girlfriend there and the hot
> tub fired up.
Unless you have proof that the dad "already had the new girlfriend there and the hot tub fired up." it's really irresponsible to make statesments like that. From the information you provided, the person who messed up was the one failed to be at "Station B" when the kid arrived on the train.
Your kind of speculation lowers quality of dialogue on the Internet/