Shari Rose schrieb:
>
> ... if
> you're caught by the right person while you're on or near those tracks
> you could be arrested and prosecuted for tress-passing on government
> property.
> If found guilty, that can put you in jail for a couple years and
> fined a pretty hefty fee on top of that imprisonment. A friend of
> mine recently [who is a train engineer] turned in someone caught on
> the tracks his train was rolling on and the guy went to jail for 3 yrs
> and fined $5,000.00 on top of that.
Do I understand this right, you can be inprisoned in the USA for
standing on the side of a railway track?
This would give "Pufferknutscher" aka train spotter in the USA a pretty
hard time.
Regards
Richard
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