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MANTECA (CBS13) — A pair of thieves spent hours dismantling a section of the Manteca railroad tracks, only to have their plan derailed by a neighboring worker.

 “They have no fear of getting caught, doing this in broad daylight, that’s just crazy,” said an Ace Tomato employee.

A man who didn’t want to appear on camera is one of many Ace Tomato employees working in the yard when he noticed the duo destroying the private railroad line.

“They were stealing the rails and the iron that held the rails together,” he told CBS13.

Working by hand, the men took their time with what had to be a tedious task.

“They were working hard doing it, they were using poles to wedge and pull everything up,” the Ace Tomato employee said.

The two men stripped 100 yards of the tomato company’s track, hoping to get away with a hefty load of iron to then cash in as scrap metal.

But, deputies arrived before the thieves could leave.

“To take parts of a train track, come on, that’s pretty brazen,” said Sgt. Les Garcia, San Joaquin Sheriff’s Department.

The destruction caused a hold up to the Union Pacific line because crews had to check for missing parts.  And deputies say that if the thieves would have stripped the Union Pacific track, just a few feet away, they would have had to answer to the feds.

“If it was their property, they could be seriously facing some federal charges there,” said Sgt. Garcia.

The duo faces a long list of charges; meanwhile the company hopes to repair the damaged track.

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  • Robert Floch

    And somehow, they’re gonna be made out to be the good guys.

  • Wyliecoyote

    They like iron eh? They will get to see it all day every day, behind iron bars.
    Irony???

  • Chris

    The local police should have let them get to the Pacific track before arresting them so they would of received federal punishment. They are risking the train operators lives as well as serious damages if a train were to derail because of their ignorance. They will probably just get a slap on the wrist and will be back out doing it again

  • Sylar

    Oh wow, true bums these guys are

  • mike

    hey sinclair,crime is an equal opportunity employer

  • Lance Neufeld

    Hmmm, maybe what they need is a little more “lead” in their diet…!

  • mike

    hey sinclair,crime is an equal opportunity employer.this will go down under the dumbest criminal files

  • Sylar

    Lol when did race get into this? Race is always a big deal to people for some strange apparent reason. Maybe when you’re 60 and older if you can make it, it won’t be such a big deal. Dam get over yourselves awready!

  • Tweakers suck

    Tweakers for sure . Just slam them full of pure dope and watch them tweak to death .

  • Larry

    Anyone willing to work that hard, deserve decent work, Where are Obama’s shovel ready jobs?

  • Art

    That is a silly comment. I’m Mexican, but I’m not stealing tracks.

    Bums is more like it; entrepreneurs, definitely.

  • raff

    meth

  • still kicking

    Anyone want to make a bet with me? I say they are both released on a promise to appear for a trial and that within 48 hours of being back on the street they are up to no good.

  • R Smith

    I’m not sure if they haven’t committed a Fed crime under the patriot act.

  • Euro Boy

    Where are their names? Protecting the illegals?

  • Carlos Medina

    Umm…I’m Latino. And as far as I can tell, I’m not a roach.

  • Carol

    Yahoo’s main page only had enough room for:
    “TWO MEN CAUGHT DISMANTLING MANTECA”
    ROFL

    I’m not sure what amazes me more, that they actually thought there was going to be a recycler would risk the legality of accepting this stuff, or that they got as far as tearing up enough track to equal a football field before getting caught.
    With only a few more feet to go, someone should have just opened up a six pack and waited.
    Boo ya! Gotta love it when idiots like these keep the central valley on top of the anual Darwin Awards.

  • Carol

    I give them 24 hours tops.

  • Carol

    They only print the names when they are hispanic, occassionally when they are black and rarely when they are white.
    So, I would have to guess they are just a group of our lovely local rednecks, drunk on Keystone.

  • mfellion

    This is what comes from not having a death penalty and enforcing it. A slap on the srist when they could have killed a lot of people if the train hit that section of missing track. We should shoot these criminals and stop cuddling them with 7 months jail time. Fifty lashes televised to the rest of the prisoners and than shot. No more crime.

  • chaquista

    You havtah look at the legs. If you are latina and have skinny bird legs, you may be a roach. Its hard for us to look at ourselves with something like this. I wish you peace and harmony. I wish You well. I love the Mexican peoples. I do always look at the legs first though to make sure about the Roach thing.

  • Marisa

    Im Latino as well….I think its time to wake up….it doesnt matter if your black, white, brown/tan or some people call them yellow, hell green at that matter….they havent even said there names…so before you start being so judgmental and yapping your mouth/typing your B.S….take a good look in your own backyards…who knows it could be your daddy,son, ect….and if it is one of your people….BAM…there it is there….bet we wont see your #@$ yapping/typing all your uglyness on this topic again….may God Bless you and I will PRAY for you…=)

  • Retired old Guy

    Sounds like a couple of white boys to me……stupid, dumb redneck white boys. Makes as much sense as blaming it on Hispanics. Ignorance is bliss.

  • Chevy Man

    white boys there’s a lot of dumb redneck confederate flag wavin white boys in manteca with cowboy boots I assume its one of them or their tweaker pals

  • Michael Rodriguez

    People of all races do these kinds of things. It’s not limited to just one race.

  • Barbara

    Just shoot and kill them. Don’t bother with a trial. Ensuite, le problème est résolu!

  • Randy

    Whaddya wanna bet it was illegals freaking aliens

  • Melissa

    Ron… I’m Hispanic and my family has lived “in the US” since before the US existed. Where are your papers? You’re ignorant…shame on you.

  • Yea, I hope they can repair it, too!

    “. . . meanwhile the company hopes to repair the damaged track.”

  • Emerald

    Yet. You aren’t stealing tracks yet. That doesn’t mean you won’t.
    lol, just messing with you.

  • Zig

    Art. They are not roaches. They are however thieves. They are not Mexicans. They are thieves. That makes them worse than politicians and roaches. However, how do you know that they are Mexican? Were you there or are you like Kresgin. Nowhere in this story is their race mentioned yet you know their race. Your intelligence is almost god like. I said almost.

    .

  • Larry’s brother

    No they’re up your butt, marco

  • Dale

    this is insane. They could have derailed a train and cost several lives, for what $50? They should take some of that pig iron and sodomize the thieves with it to teach them a lesson

  • shovlhd

    Typical Lib response…

  • lamchops

    LOL!

    Good one Garlos.

  • karla

    The fact that the paper left their names out points to them being illegals, or at the very least Hispanic. That is how the media works. We have to be code readers in todays news.

  • T-mugg

    It’s California, where they plan on releasing thousands and thousands of criminals because those poor criminals are having to share a cell with others due to crowding.
    These guys will be out immediately and their actions will likely result in somebody’s death eventually.

  • KateInVirginia

    well, we weren’t having this much problem with thieves and foreclosures, etc. until we were invaded from the “south”, by brazen thieves who steal across the border and steal ID’s, jobs, and lie to stay here.

  • Templar X

    Well, the politicians (federal, state and local) are destroying America, company by company, family by family, so, I guess the ordinary people thought that they would lend a hand!

  • Normal Dude

    Are these jobs saved, or created, by Obama? Which one? Saved? Created?

  • Truth

    The United States was a country before Mexico. Look it up.

  • Bill S.

    BS! It’s ours now. You took it from the Indians, we took it from you. Too bad, get over it.

  • krusatyr

    Las Cucarachas ain’t got necks either, maing,

  • Jim Hampton

    Fact: Most of the crimes sure are limited to 2 races. Black and Mexican.

  • richard Allen

    And Ill bet your next weeks paycheck all the non violent pot heads will stay in jail….

    ———–
    t’s California, where they plan on releasing thousands and thousands of criminals because those poor criminals are having to share a cell with others due to crowding.

  • Ben Dover

    Make the guys who removed the tracks, reinstall them. Then lock them up.

  • mark

    Jim,

    You are an idiot.

  • MorganGray

    Where are *yours* Ron?
    And I don’t mean your immigration papers, I mean your discharge from the sanitarium.
    Perhaps it is uncalled for to speculate that these rectal orifices were illegal aliens. But, to deny that there is a problem with illegal aliens entering this country from Mexico is just sheer insanity.
    Now, you may be part of La Raza, or Aztlan, or whatever re conquista group. But, face reality skippy; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California are part of the United States of America, *NOT* Mexico. If you’re a citizen of this country, then you are a citizen of the USA. If you don’t like it; if being a Mexican is so wonderful, emigrate to Mexico, see what it takes to become a citizen of that country. Or better yet, do it illegally. Sneak across the border going south and see how the wonderful, enlightened Mexicans treat illegal immigrants.
    Meanwhile, stop trashing the country that makes it possible for you to sit in your comfy chair and trash people who are concerned for the fate of the nation which is facing an invasion from the south.

    And by the way; before you ask me for my papers. My family was here before *any* of you Europeans got here. I’m Seneca. (And Scots, Irish and Welsh)

  • Leningradcowboy

    I hope that their SEIU Union memberships were paid and up to date. How silly of me, they probably weren’t in the union, because they were working and not protesting capitalism.

  • sean patriot

    They need to be tried for TERRORISM

  • cracker

    How dare you to even attempt to speak the truth. Don’t you realize that is a race crime?

  • Ben Dover

    WOAH! WOAH! WOAH!

    Let’s keep our facts straight. They are thieves, true. But that certainly does not mean they are worse than politicians. And that is so disrespectful to roaches. I may have to report you to PETA or the ASPCA.

  • sean patriot

    REMEMBER THE ALAMO !!!!

  • Alice

    just some more poor mexicans coming here to work hard and get the american dream!
    CLOSE THE DANG BORDERS YOU IDIOTS.

  • sean patriot

    YOUR KIND RAPED, MURDERED AND PILLIAGED THE INDIGINOUS PEOPLE AS WELL JERK OFF

  • cracker

    Yes and the Indians lived here before you, what’s your point? I’m more American than you because I’ve lived here longer? Ger a life.

  • john

    This is one of those “shovel ready jobs” obumbler created.

  • sean patriot

    AS A MATTER OF FACT YOUR KIND IS THE DIRECT RESULT OF THE INDIGINOUS PEOPLE BEING RAPED.

  • john

    shovel ready jobs

  • 1 Lucky Texan

    Vandalism of rail lines is not uncommon. They can’t even stop taggers from painting entire sides of freight cars. The next time some politician starts promoting a high speed rail boondoggle, just ask how they expect to guard thousands of miles of THAT trackway from terrorists.

  • sean patriot

    DONT WORRY ABOUT IT JIM, WE KNOW WHO IS RIGHT. BLACKS AND MEXICANS MAKE UP 85% OF THE PRISONS

  • cracker

    Not mentioning the race of the perps tells me all i need to know about who these guys are………….Haven’t you noticed?

  • MorganGray

    In this case, race is important. We are seeing such an influx of illegal immigrants, many (not all, but many) of whom end up as part of the criminal class.
    If these twits were illegals, it is another argument for closing off the border.
    So,in this case, race *is* important.

  • cracker

    Depends on who you are trying to convince.

  • Sean

    Well said Morgan.

  • Bianca Smith

    Probably Black or Mexican

  • craniumlogos

    It doesn’t matter what race or nationality they are of. It matters that they are criminals and should be treated that way. If they are illegal aliens, they should be deported back to their home country, or jailed here, or jailed in their home country. If they are not illegal aliens they should just be jailed for a long time.

    Of course, there are some practical issues with all of these things: If they are sent to Mexico all they have to do is walk back into the USA. If they are jailed in CA the Supreme Court will free them due to overcrowding in prisons.

    No wonder we have a crime problem!

  • cracker

    I say give California to Mexico………It’ll help both of our countries , they deserve it and we don’t need it……………..

  • Mark McClure

    The US won a war against Mexico, so If your reletives have been here that long then u are a citizen, and u need the same papers that all citezens need, a birth certificate, Soc Security card, or #, or a state ID. There is a reson why people dont like ILEAGAL imegrants. Disease, Low education or skills, Criminal Background, My Grandparents were imegrants but they came here legally, They could have been turned back, and many were. Funny u sound unhappy, but u live in the most prosperist country in the world that grants more freedom to its citezens than any other. If America did not exist or was never created u would be speaking Japanease or German or worse because I’m sure Mexico would’nt have been able to defeat Hitler. The Nazi’s would have sent u to the furnace!

  • Tom

    and you lost the wars… and we paid for it.

  • Jimmy

    OH THEY WERE MEXICANS NO DOUBT..SEND THEM BACK TO MEXICO..OH WAIT..THEY STOLE THE BUS ALSO :-)

  • SCforG

    Now they’ll get three squares and a cot………no more hard labor :)

  • Jimmy

    IM NOT SAYING ALL MEXICAS STEAL, IM JUST BEING HONEST..IM SURE THEY WERE MEXICANS

  • bob bobbson

    “They should take some of that pig iron and sodomize the thieves with it to teach them a lesson”

    …only if they heat it up real good first, in a blast furnace.

  • Joe

    The article does not mention the race; anytime a caucasion commits a crime they will ALWAYS report the race of the perpetrator.

  • Bob Farrell

    Right Barbara. That’s the way to treat themj all

  • fenceamerica

    mexico was hitler’s alli durring the war. My best friend’s grandpa was stationed on the texas/mexico border durring the war. And it was a real concern about nazis and mexicans.

  • bob bobbson

    “Not mentioning the race of the perps tells me all i need to know about who these guys are………….Haven’t you noticed?”

    exactly. if they were white, we’d have pictures and video and interviews with their white parents and pictures of the poor poor minority children who cannot now ride the train to grandma’s house.

  • Hank Warren

    Illegals and their hazardous crimes, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our rights:
    They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
    They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
    They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
    They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
    Impeach Obama, vote for Ron Paul.
    (Last link of Banned Book):
    http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

  • James

    Not being racist at all but a DISPROPORTIONATELY High percentage of both Hispanic & Blacks are in Prisons. They comit a higher % of crimes compared the numbers. They also have had a higher percentage of lower grades in schools.. higher percentage of Dropping out. The vast majority of Americans are NOT racist.. but what seems to happen is that hispanic & blacks pull out the race card all the time.. it USE to intimidate.. now its laughable. Its up to EACH PERSON what they will become in life.

    Blacks can NO LONGER use the saying that the “white man” is keeping them down.. A black man is president, some of the highest ranking generals in the Military are black & hispanic, including women. Back & Hispanic doctors, lawyers.. Nope.. Its down to INDIVIDUAL responsibility. If a person will not better themseves with what they have available.. then its their own fault they have no education or future. TOO MANY have suceeded for that blame game to go on.

    As for these morons who took up the track.. I dont care what color they are.. Put them in jail for a VERY LONG TIME>

  • Earl Dumarest

    While I oppose illegal immigration, there are a lot of good Mexicans in Alabama.

  • bob bobbson

    “I have a serious question for you. What motivates an idiot to turn this into an Obama comment?”

    maybe it’s the fact that he’s president and he hasn’t built the damn fence?

    rather he is mocking people who want it built.

    see the connection? idiot.

  • eltoro

    I don’t think so, you’re drawing a conclusion without facts,
    “Robert Daniel Johnson, 49, and Albert Francis Angulo Sr., 44, were charged with possession of stolen property, grand theft and misdemeanor trespass on railroad tracks and misdemeanor trespass on railroad property” from the Manteca Bulletin!

  • JeromeFJ

    Obama supporters doing to some railroad tracks what Obama is doing to America — dismantling it. Pardon me…what does O’Bozo call it? “Fundamentally changing” it.

  • jmounday

    sad commentary on our economic recovery?

  • opine25

    This is Obama’s fault!

  • peccatun Dei

    Straight out of the pages of Atlas Shrugged. They may face a long list of charges, but I have little doubt they’ll be back on the street very quickly, along with forty thousand or so of their buddies. Hey California, how’s the hope and change thing working out for you?

  • Kevmeistah

    See what you did there? You ARE wylie!

  • Disillusioned Democrat

    Charlie, there is a serious side to JoeAstroturf’s nutty comment. People are becoming desperate. Carter’s “Malaise Index” is applicable. Instead of “focusing like a laser beam” on the economy as our President said he would, he is off with the G8 giving $20,000,000,000 of our BORROWED money away to people who do now and will always resent us for it. I am a registered Dem and even I am going nuts over the lack of leadership. Read between the lines Charlie. There are millions of JoeAstroturf’s out of work while Nero fiddles. I hope you reply beacuse I would like to read wat you think of my responce.

  • BoomPOD

    Charlie
    Please watch a video free on youtube called “the obama deception” or goto theobamadeception dot net.
    Yes, it’s Obama’s fault. He has the power along with Congress to provide jobs, cut taxes, and eliminate farm subsidies, give people checks to buy more food, cut payroll taxes. But he doesn’t. And animals show their true colors. get ready.

  • Kevmeistah

    “criminal class”? I bet those illegal Mexicans get in-state tuition to that one as well!

  • Marco’s Brother

    No, there up both you and your brother’s butts.

  • Kevmeistah

    I agree. We really should stop cuddling with these dirtbags.

  • Robert

    In Baltimore we have the same problem except they steal Aluminum Streetlight Posts. and these things are tall like over 50 feet and yet they get away with it, Guess the Cops think they are workmen?

  • Brian

    Where on Earth did you all learn to write and/or communicate? Good lord!

  • Ed Johnson

    Are all conservatives mentally ill, or just the ones who comment in newspapers?

  • Tom Walter

    I’m Sure These Idiots Were ‘Brown Skinned’ Of Some Sort.

  • leftistssuk

    yeah, the obama economy has a job for everyone,even in the rail business..wonder how many illegal aliens they caught,,they will probably be invited to the WHITEhouse for beer.

  • leftistssuk

    right on

  • Gabe

    Just because you got used to your uncles being the ones doing these things youre now mad that there might be others doing the same, less but you have to point the finger at someone and generalize right. Obviously you need to be reminded that your family members were not natives to this country either. Its all a cycle so dont be mad because youre now at the tail end of it.

  • leftistssuk

    hey leave them alone,,this is one of the 3 jobs that the stimulus paid for….railroad worker,,of course all 3 jobs created were in the government sector…lets see 900 billion dollars for 3 jobs…$%*(*(&^$%$#%^*&,thats 300 billion for each job,way to go nobama….you freekin embarrasment

  • leftistssuk

    now the real headline would be,”someone actually has a job under obama” news at 6.

  • Riff

    At least capitalism and free market enterprise still thrive somewhere in this country.

  • MirroredFate

    At least we’re not stupid.

  • amplitude jones

    only a total moron criminal could even ask that. These evil pig criminals are exactly what obama wants to make everyone become. Obama wants the USA destroyed. You morons who voted fro dems at all and for obama SIMPLY BECAUSE HE IS PART BLACK, are responsible for the erasure of freedom.

  • David

    Ed, did your comment make you feel better? I hope it did because you haven’t changed one mind with your name calling. If you have ears listen… people aren’t upset with YOU they are upset with the president. Why call these people idiots?

  • John Wolf

    Many of the comments are written by paid employees of Soros et al.

  • John

    This Nation will eventually be stripped bare by the invading hordes.

  • Mark

    More Obama voters in prison- that’s the takeaway on this story.

  • Engineer4096

    This is a sign of things to come if California builds its high speed rail stimulus/boondoggle.

  • Bishop

    @ morgan. very well said. its us level headed, unprejudice americans that were meant to run this country.

  • unga Bunga

    If you were to work that hard to get a few pounds of iron, then why don’t you get a real job and get to earn your keep legitimately!

  • Quik Hit

    Where are the NAMES of the criminals? How about a photo. This IS the internet, you know.

  • Ork

    Obama Oschmama.. You guys act like if we had a different president you wouldn’t be such a loser. Yeah you would still be trash. You know how the system works. One party wrecks the country for 8 years & then the other party takes over and wrecks it for 8 more. That’s just how it is.. Get over it.

  • dave

    Because they aren’t any real jobs due to Obama’s Socialism.

  • TuvToo

    Wow these dudes need a serious beating.

    http://www.real-privacy.int.tc

  • Joseph

    Mexicans doing the work gringos won’t.

  • Bubba

    If you’re going to racially insult our President at least spell the insult correctly. You missed a ‘g’.

  • Faked Book

    You’re an F’ing idiot.

  • Po Cho

    mexicans, the new improved black democrats……..

  • jschmidt

    SHould it be alleged thieves? After all just because you find 2 guys with the tools in their hands, and the iron dismantled, doesn’t mean they did it. They could have just picked up the tools while they were passing buy. Whatever happened to presume innocence? We should get Congress to investigate this – afterall they are doing anything worthwhile except spending our money. These 2 alleged thieves are working harder than all of Congress and Obama put together. These guys are victims and the man’s just trying to keep them down. Any cliches I missed?

  • Santiago Matamoros

    Ace Tomato Company? That’s what the FBI has painted on the side of their vans to stay “undercover”. Does anyone else find this strange?

  • A

    Faked Book,

    It is amazing how little you and your liberal buds understand about business. You throw out the “idiot” charge when you don’t understand the issue. WE business people, we the ones that create jobs, understand what an joker this character is. And what idiots you are to blindly follow leaders that have never held a job in thier lives.

    A

  • guy that stole the tracks

    it wasn’t me

  • guy that stole the tracks

    it wasnt me

  • Gabe

    Again, its all a cycle. Poor guy, im sure you feel like youve been stomped all over as a Native American huh- first the Spanish/Mexicans then the British(all the Europeans involved)/Americans. Youve just been f…ked huh…

  • elsargento

    WERE THE WEARING THEIR OBAMA MONKEY MAN TEE SHIRTS.

    SARGE

  • Kris

    Wow, half of the people commenting on this article can’t spell. Go back to grammar school people! Yes, I agree that these thieves are stupid. But apparently we have another problem here- the general public is illiterate!

  • Archie

    Dave and A understand why people are resorting to this. If you can’t work and earn money, you can’t feed yourself or pay to put a roof over your head. Faked Book doesn’t understand all of this but instead of admitting it and trying to learn about the issue, he/she just calls people names. My mother taught me that resorting to name calling only means that you’ve lost the debate. Faked Book should educate him/herself with an open mind and an open heart.

  • Ben F

    You sir are truly ignorant.
    I dare you to sit down and read the Constitution.

  • Rhadagastt

    As a independent voter I am totally100% on the same page as you are DD. Where does he get the gall to borrow money from my children and grandchildren to hand over to middle east countries that would see us dead. It shows how abjectly out of touch he is. True clinical narcisist.

  • Archie

    I’m always suspicious when the Media doesn’t show a picture of the person because it usually means they are a minority. You see, the Media wants us to believe that minority criminals are mostly innocent.

  • AeroJack7

    The death penalty needs to be applied in cases like this. Putting train engineers/passengers in danger for a quick buck is beyond comprehension. It is terrorism.

  • Robert Ryan

    Not all blacks are lazy good-for-nothings, just too damn many of them are!

  • Y. B. Gerbil

    Probably meth users. Is the railway in use, or abandoned? If in use, they endangered lives, a crime much worse than theft.

  • http://lindawriter.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/times-are-tough-and-now-thieves-are-stealing-train-tracks/ Times are tough and now thieves are stealing train tracks « Linswritings

    [...] to steal train tracks for get cash for the metal tracks. In a town near Sacramento,  California, a pair of thieves spent hours dismantling a section of the Manteca railroad tracks before being busted by the [...]

  • Ares

    This is clearly the work of Blacks or Mestizos. They won’t show pictures of them but you know they have some. Pushing ‘diversity’ at any cost to us. The media must be overthrown.

  • dongs

    i dare you to say that we the people/government follows the constitution.

  • Archie

    What ‘s strange – other than your comment?

    There is an Ace Tomato Company in Manteca, CA where this happened. Why is it strange to ship their product via the railroad?

  • Carmichael Craig

    Your an Idiot…. More than likely your also one of the thief’s…..

  • JAMIE

    “THAT’S JUST HOW IT IS,GET OVER IT”. That kind of f**cking thinking is why the two parties destroy everything one term at a time. You don’t just get over it. YOU FIGHT BACK! MAYBE THEY WOULD BE TRASH BUT THEY WOULD BE TRASH WITH JOBS. REPUBLICANS AT LEAST MAKE SURE YOU CAN WORK SO THEY CAN STEAL YOUR MONEY!

  • ZMEEKER

    Iron railroad tracks? I do not think so CBS13. How can anyone trust any reports from this news source if they cannot get this easily verified fact right ?

  • Hoser

    You must be a Democrat trying to stir up racsim to keep people on your plantation. Divide and conquer, your game never changes.

  • Ylem

    This could easily be two white guys, too. It’s not as if white guys don’t commit crimes but usually when there are no names or photos of the two men, it’s because the Media is trying to keep their race on the down-low. Since the Sargent’s name is Garcia, and this is California, this town is probably has a high percentage of Mexicans.

  • gary-bg

    Absolutely true there Dave I had a 50k a year job as a production supervisor…collected unemployment for 83 weeks now I work as a part time dock worker unloading and reloading trucks. I get 20 hours a week and yes I pay union dues to boot.My yearly income if indeed I keep this job will be 10k after taxes,and this is the teamsters trucking business with gas prices soaring how long will this job last.I am no slacker either I can prove a viable income all the way back to 1968 a solid work history…so just being a hard worker doesn’t mean squat in this economy.

  • Andrew

    Just like in late Soviet Russia circa 1991+
    Welcome to the USSA, United Socialist States of America.

  • Archie

    The Media seems to have a major political/social agenda that leans far to the Left.

  • elsargento

    ALL OF THEM. FACT.

    SARGE

  • Ylem

    Wow… more name-calling from a Liberal. Big surprise.

  • Hoser

    The problem isn’t so much illegal alien as it is illegal combatant. Mexican and Central American ‘gangs’ are killing people here. Why are we treating them like criminals? They are waging war on our streets and recruiting citizens to join foreign forces, often while in prison. Let it go on. It’s almost like Kabul in Oakland and parts of LA. How long before the IEDs happen here? No prison for these guys, instead military prison, trial, and execution by firing squad.

  • Archie

    You mean like how the Media “generalized” during the AZ shooting? Remember how you all blamed Palin and Limbaugh for causing the shooter’s rampage? How about the NY Timesquare bomber. Remember how the Tea Party was immediately blamed, like in almost every terroist act in America since Obama became president?

  • Ork

    Obama Oshmama.. You guys act like if we had a different president you wouldn’t be such a loser. Yeah you would still be trash, got it..

    You know how the system works. One party wrecks the country for 8 years & then the other party takes over and wrecks it for 8 more. That’s just how it is.. Get over it.

  • Hoser

    You must be a Democrat. Divide and conquer, the same old game.

  • Ed Poe

    Craig, are you stupid or just illiterate? It is “you’re,” which is the contraction for “you are,” and not as you write “your” which shows second person possession. Plus, the plural of thief is thieves, and not as you write, ‘thief’s,” which is single possesive.

    How you can call someone an idiot and then construct a sentence like that?

  • Ylem

    You’re right, there are a lot of good Mexicans everywhere in America but there are too many illegal Mexicans who, because they’re illegal, don’t care about our laws. The problem is that when you give those Mexicans automatic citizenship, they still don’t care about our laws because they are Mexicans first. It’s been generations since Reagan gave millions amnesty and look at it. They’re grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, are still speaking Spanish as their first language. Taking over a country is taking over their culture and language.

  • Gary R

    The comments are so funny I forgot what the hell the story was about.

  • Kevmeistah

    Mexicans doing the crime gringos won’t.

  • JMWinPR

    FBI uses ACME Tomatoe Company, it confuses Road Runner.

  • bob dobalina

    Ace Tomato is what was written on the containers Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase parachuted with in the movie “Spies Like Us”! This sort of thing is just goofy!

  • jeff

    This whole story is racist.
    First, it’s clear they are illegal Mexicans because the media won’t post the photos – only white people criminal photos are posted.
    Second, these illegal Mexican’s have been downtrodden. According to the rules of “Social Justice”, this stealing of …steel…would NOT be a crime if committed by a downtrodden Mexican.
    After all, us whitey’s DID steal the SW USA from them! Heck, for the sake of “reconquister”, they probably actually do own the railroad anyway. Just ask La Raza (“the race”)! :)

  • Kevmeistah

    “dave” is correct. Obama does create jobs. He pays people to insult his detractors on websites. It’s a program for employing the mentally challenged. Soon they will be unionized as the “Brotherhood of Blind Bloviating Socialist Sycophants, Local 562″.

  • jeff

    My papers are called a “long form birth certificate”…you see, in an instant I can produce proof of which hospital I was born in and the name of the attending physician. Unlike Obama, who took two years to conjure up a photoshopped long form birth certificate.
    On the other hand, let’s be clear: if you are in this country but have origins in another country, specifically Mexico, and you don’t have naturalization or green card, you are committing a crime against the USA. You are stealing our resources, you have no right to be here, and you ARE the problem. Don’t give us some doubletalk about papers to change the discussion.

  • terry

    Archie!!! How long has it taken for you to realize that almost all media including N.Y. Times, L.A. Times, S.F. Chronicle, Sac. Bee, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Marysvillle, Ca., Appeal-Democrat, Etc., Etc., Etc., are all left-wing supporters and have been for generations. Seems like you have just awakened from the dream that so many others are still dozing in.

  • weaseldog

    Exactly, when the economy crashed twice while Bush was President, it was Obama’s fault.

  • weaseldog

    I don;t have much time to read fantasy stories anymore. I have too much real world stuff to deal with.

    I like the idea of a Constitutional Government. Perhaps we should get one?

  • Rex James

    Had to be Mexicans. Blackies don’t work that hard. They just shoot you and take whatever you have.

  • weaseldog

    This last crash happened while Bush was President.

    But ok, say we elect a Republican for two more terms and have two more crashes with more job losses. How is that better than having a Dem with economic crashes and continued job losses?

  • weaseldog

    Maybe they are gringos, and the media doesn’t want to embarrass them?

  • weaseldog

    Doh! It said they were working hard. Yeah, they must be Mexicans.

  • weaseldog

    Actually it’s clear they were Mexicans because the story says they were working very hard.

  • firstpoppa

    Gives new meaning to “I’ve been working on the railroad”.

  • Gabe

    So where did you come from Jeff? Im sure you invaded this country yourself- if thats what youre calling it… And who cares about Obamas birth certificate right- uh, its a little too late to fight that battle even if he wasnt born here dont you think?

  • JT

    They probably live in the closest Obamaville.

  • Rick

    The operative word is “work”.

    Somehow they will bust their butts doing this but won’t/can’t put in the effort necessary to learn and master a skill.

    It’s an interesting phenomenon, similar to the street denizens that will get up before dawn and compete with their bro’s for what ever bottles and cans they can collect.

  • Machismo

    HA HA HA HA! I hope some of the penelty is making the stupid Bozo’s install the rails back on the track. Hard labor.

  • OCMichael

    Guys:
    While it’s true that when crooks like these are White, we generally get not only their names and photos, but we often find out what city block they live on. Black & Brown criminals frequently get a pass – “The soft bigotry of Lowered Expectations”. An unholy combination of Elitist condescension and Liberal Guilt.

    COPPER Thieves tend to be more amusing. They DO tend to be most often Black and Brown people…Particularly after they try cutting into live Power Lines…Rather CRISPY, too.

  • weaseldog

    They are hard workers. They’d probably take a job laying rails if such jobs existed today.

  • tubaman

    the people who post on these sites are a good example of how our school systems have failed,big time.people on both sides of the questions rarely use correct ENGLISH,even though some time you’re in a rush and do make silly mistakes.

  • Lady63

    They wont have any problems working on the chain gang.

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