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Feb 2024
49m 21s

The Sunday Read: ‘The Great Freight-Trai...

The New York Times
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Of all the dozens of suspected thieves questioned by the detectives of the Train Burglary Task Force at the Los Angeles Police Department during the months they spent investigating the rise in theft from the city’s freight trains, one man stood out. What made him memorable wasn’t his criminality so much as his giddy enthusiasm for trespassing. That man, Vict ... Show More
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