An Amtrak train bound to New York has some pretty big problems thanks to a freight train derailment. Watching the news I see people calling from the train, bitching about how they are getting treated like crap, like prisoners.

• They don’t have water on the train.
• They have to pay for their food.
• They won’t let them get out of the train.

Oh lord…

The horror stories are probably true in some aspect. For example, there probably isn’t much as far as water is concerned, but that’s because they haven’t been able to reach their exchange destination so they can dump the waste and fill up with fresh water.

But Heaven forbid they pay for the food. They were paying for it before. Just because a train breaks down doesn’t mean everything is for free. And if you didn’t bring enough money for food, well that’s just tough shit. Guess what, food runs out, and if they were expecting to be in their exchange depot at 11pm and they didn’t get there, they don’t have new food for you. Deal with it. That’ll teach you to pack a Just In Case bag.

My favorite is the woman calling the news station, whining about how they won’t even let the passengers leave the train. Because that’s what I want to do, leave a train in the middle of nowhere, and walk to the next train station.

Expect lots of lawsuits. People didn’t get to where they had to get to, they weren’t given lots of free swag to shut their friggen pieholes. In a crisis, they weren’t pandered to. No one sent a bus for them.

No one sent a bus.

During the holiday season.

What were they expecting, Greyhound to come up the tracks to save their asses? I think they were busy.

Sorry, but when I paid my $300 to get to Florida, I knew what I was getting into. I understood that if something were to happen that I would be stuck.

If an American Airlines flight in Denver is cancelled due to weather or some other unforeseen circumstance,you don’t see AA trying to round up people to get to their destination by packing them into a bus or train.

“Some of the people got off the train at the last stop and I guess they found a way to get home,” said the caller. While she sat their with her four kids bitching about how the toilets are dirty and there is no food. On the phone with CNN.

“They didn’t even tell us what was going on,” she said. They went to the Amtrak spokesperson who said they contacted the train and told them about how there was a train derailment and that they would try to work on getting the people home as soon as they could. “Oh yeah,” she said, “they told us that.”

Then she complained about the food again.