Is there anything lower than sabotaging a kiddie train full of passengers? That’s what some little punk or punks did Sunday afternoon at Pullen Park. The perp put rocks on the tracks and watched as the train derailed, sending 77-year-old train driver Jackson Dean Oakley to the hospital with a cut hand. This kid was at the scene of the derailment. Police want to talk to him.
If that wasn’t enough, the park’s caboose was vandalized Tuesday morning. Some kind soul broke the windows on it.
We were at the park Sunday morning and were disappointed that the train wasn’t running until the afternoon. Still, we could have been on that train and would not have been amused when it derailed. Now I’m going through my pictures from that morning to see if that kid is in any of them.
Now the kid in question may have just been conincidentally hiding in the weeds near the derailment. Yeah, and I may be mayor of Raleigh. Fortunately for the perp we weren’t around when he pulled his little stunt. If the twit had derailed the train my family was on, he would have been begging for the cops to arrive.
I hope they catch this delinquient and get him the help he needs before he moves on to bigger destruction.
Bunch of savages in this town.