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Man guilty of rail track thefts (BBC News)

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Old 3rd June 2008, 18:07
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Man guilty of rail track thefts (BBC News)

A man admits stealing £22,000 worth of railway track, which police say could have caused a serious accident.

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Old 3rd June 2008, 19:23
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I hope they throw the book at him. May send a message to others.
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Old 3rd June 2008, 20:52
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I HOPE he gets a Serious sentence and not the usual slap on the wrist for it.
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Oh, right, I thought it ment he stole the track directly from the line, which would have been a rediculous thing to do on every level.

Even so that was a pretty wreckless and stupid thing to do. I hope he gets a good sentence.
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I think he should be sentenced to go back and collect all the other track junk and litter from a 10 mile stretch of urban railway. Any railway. And take it at his own expense to a recycling tip.

That should be about twenty 40-ton lorries if my observations are correct
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