Gay Latino Train Engineer Texting Boys, Killed Pedestrian Before Big Crash
Robert Sanchez was text messaging a teenage boy just one minute before crash that killed 25.
by James Buchanan
Our society seems to be spiraling toward financial and moral oblivion. Many of us see the effects of quota-hires on a daily basis. From the worthless Kenyan tech worker sleeping at his desk to the psychotic Chinese female manager scolding the talent for not letting her micro-manage everything. Of all the stories of minority incompetence, I’ve heard over the years, I could not have predicted what happened in Los Angeles just last week.
It seems a Gay Latino train operator was so obsessed with exchanging text-messages with teenage boys that he not only allowed himself to be distracted from keeping his eyes on the tracks ahead, he apparently failed to see a red signal and drove head on into another train killing himself and 24 other people, and seriously injuring over 100 more. Just days before this disaster, Sanchez ran over a pedestrian on September 2nd, apparently failing to notice the pedestrian or attempt emergency braking, yet Metrolink left him in his job as a train engineer.
An L.A. Times news article reports “Sanchez died Friday at the helm of a Metrolink train after apparently failing to stop at a signal near Chatsworth and colliding with an oncoming Union Pacific train. The crash, the worst in modern California history, killed 24 others and injured 135. Investigators on Tuesday said they had ruled out train and track failure in the accident, and are close to ruling out signal failure. They said they are now focusing on Sanchez… In 2000, he and Daniel Charles Burton, a waiter, bought a home in Crestline…. On Feb. 14, 2003, Burton hanged himself in the garage of their home…. The coroner’s report showed that Burton tested positive for HIV. According to the report, Sanchez told investigators that he and Burton had been arguing before the suicide, and Sanchez told Burton that they should break up.” (more…)