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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @07:00PM (#39124374)
Some cars are 89 feet long, so every 50 meters is every third car. That's a lot of overhead. Theft would have to be huge for that to be anywhere near realistic.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by jojobas on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @10:06PM (#39125808)
Sounds like it is huge.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by euroderf on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:33AM (#39127467)
A gantry outside of Barstow that plops a device on top of every third (or fifth) car. Outgoing traffic collects them off again.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by dotancohen on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:38AM (#39127493)
It would still be less expensive than an armed Marine, and that solution has been effective before.
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