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VIDEO: Thousands of packages looted as thieves rob L.A. bound trains

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The lawlessness of California continues to manifest itself in very visible ways. Videos are emerging on social media showing huge amounts of trash, and in particular, UPS boxes and amazon packages that were en route to residential addresses.

The trash is piling up jut next to the train tracks, where CBS Los Angeles reports train burglaries are on the rise. “There’s loot3ed packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains” tweeted John Schreiber.

Schreiber added, “I’m told by law enforcement these @UPS bags are especially sought after by thieves opening cargo containers…they are often full of boxes with merchandise bound for residential addresses. More valuable than say, a cargo container full of low value bulky items like toilet paper.”

Schreiber’s multiple videos posted to Twitter show the absolute disgust resulting from the thievery. “As you can see, trains frequently slow or stop in this area as they get worked into the @UnionPacific Intermodal facility near Downtown LA. The thieves use this opportunity to break open containers and take what’s inside, I’d say every 4th or 5th rail car had opened containers.

In another tweet with more photos of damaged property, Schreiber writes, “missing a package? Shipment delayed? Maybe your package is among the thousands we found discarded among the tracks. This is but one area thieves have targeted trains. We were told this area was just cleaned up 30 days ago so what you see is all within the last month. @CBSLA.”

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13 Comments

  1. lauren dion

    January 14, 2022 at 4:42 pm

    maybe hire former militar / officers to ride the rails like the old west and shoot those who try to rob the trains…

  2. Zack Trainor

    January 14, 2022 at 4:54 pm

    Talk and lip service, but nothing is ever done about these emboldened mobs robbing us all.

  3. Nate

    January 14, 2022 at 5:33 pm

    Butch Cassidy and his gang of misfits are back!

  4. Nate

    January 14, 2022 at 5:34 pm

    If I place a question mark only? Will I await moderation?????

    ??????????????????????

  5. Nate

    January 14, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    Must be a good paying job “moderating” comments?

  6. Jim

    January 14, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    This many thieves should be easy for the cops to ID. Why aren’t they arresting them? If the cops do nothing then the citizens should start their own vigilante forces.

  7. Ken Hein

    January 14, 2022 at 6:05 pm

    Catch them, try them, convict them, and hang them.

  8. Liberal Lou

    January 14, 2022 at 8:23 pm

    Hmmm. I wonder why the bad guys keep on stealing stuff all over the place. I guess we’ll just have to learn to start paying more for stuff. Wait – with record high inflation, we already are!! Let’s move faster on the defunding of the police too. Then we can have some guidance counselors and therapists talk to these thugs about why they are stealing. We need to try harder to understand their backgrounds and perspectives. There must be something in their history that’s causing these issues. Be nice everyone!

  9. Kate

    January 15, 2022 at 1:40 am

    Ghezzzzzzzzzzz I can’t even begin to imagine who would be doing this??
    I guess one can sum it up that a man and his family have got to eat!!

  10. Vetmike

    January 15, 2022 at 6:46 am

    If they were stealing food or other life essentials, maybe I could understand. But this never.

  11. Dewayne

    January 15, 2022 at 9:03 am

    Once they are caught put them in jail and once it’s time for them to get out send them to somolia

  12. Rex Robinson

    January 16, 2022 at 10:30 am

    I can’t imagine how this is going to stop or be stopped. Maybe a few sniper nests along the tracks are in order. I know that sounds extreme but anyone with anything better?

  13. Dean Kinne

    January 16, 2022 at 11:23 am

    So why do Californian’s put up with this?

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Home foreclosures soaring nationwide

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A new report published by real estate data provider ATTOM found that there were 32,938 properties in February with foreclosure filings, which includes default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions. That marks an 8% increase from the prior year, although it is down 1% from the previous month.

The February rise of foreclosures is another symptom of Americans struggling with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. 

Fox Business reports that according to Zillow, housing affordability is the worst it has been in decades, thanks to a spike in home prices and mortgage rates. Combined, the two have helped to push the typical salary required nationwide for homeownership up to $106,500 — a stunning 61% increase from the $59,000 required just four years ago.

In South Carolina, foreclosures surged 51%, while Missouri saw a 50% jump and Pennsylvania a 46% increase. Foreclosures in Texas rose 7%, and in Indiana they climbed 0.8%. Although foreclosures are rising, they remain well below the levels recorded during the 2008 financial crisis, reports Fox Business.

However, the average rate for a 30-year fixed loan rose to 6.74% this week, Freddie Mac reported, which is well above the pandemic-era lows of 3%. And even though mortgage rates have more than doubled in just three years, home prices have hardly budged.

Fox Business states that the problem could soon get worse as high home prices, mortgage rates and property taxes bite Americans:

The Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest-rate hike campaign sent mortgage rates soaring above 8% for the first time in nearly two decades last year. Rates have been slow to retreat, hovering near 7% as hotter-than-expected inflation data dashed investors’ hopes for immediate rate cuts.

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