[PHXFlyer]

I wasn't going to get involved in this thread, however, here's some links for your reading pleasure. B.C. would like you to think otherwise but Amtrak isn't immune to service failures. After reading these tell me how Amtrak is so much better than the airlines!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n3781939.shtml

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapi..._train_pa.html

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technol...y_in_ga_woods/

And here's my favorite - it happened "right in my own backyard":

http://www.kpho.com/news/13592475/detail.html

Amtrak personnel told police dispatchers that Sims was drunk and unruly.The Sims family said Sims is diabetic and was going into shock."He was let off in the middle of a national forest, which is about 800,000 acres of beautiful pine trees," Lt. Mike Graham said.Police said there is no train station or running water at the crossing, which is about two miles from the nearest road, at an elevation of about 8,000 feet.

Williams police told CBS 5 that Amtrak has used the abandoned crossing as a drop-off site in the past. Graham said that whether drunk or not, no one should be dropped off there."You don't put anyone off in an area like that," Graham said.

And you think airline employees have an inflated sense of authority? Amtrak put this man off the train in the middle of nowhere and literally left him to die. I don't ever remember reading about an airline making an unscheduled landing on an abandoned airfield in the middle of a great wooded expanse to kick off a passenger they had "issues" with.

How great does your beloved Amtrak look now, B.C.?