Want your car confiscated? Take railroad pictures, lose your car. You are the new boogyman.
Quoted from 9/19 Newsday, which isn't a very reliable source:
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Quoted from 9/19 Newsday, which isn't a very reliable source:
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Merrick LIRR trestle photographed by man, MTA says
September 20, 2016 By Ellen Yan [email protected]
Nassau and MTA police rushed to Merrick on Monday after a report of a “Middle Eastern-looking man” who parked under a LIRR trestle and was taking photos of it, authorities said.
An MTA officer arrived with a bomb-sniffing dog, and after a “full examination” of the man’s car, they did not find any evidence of explosives or contraband, said Salvatore Arena, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. No trains were affected...
The caller said the man parked his car on Brooklyn Avenue at the trestle, just west of the Merrick station, and spent several minutes photographing the trestle, Arena said.
He then left, walking east on Sunrise Highway, and that’s when the witness called police, he said.
Nassau police arrived, called MTA police and impounded the car after it was examined at the scene, Arena said. Details on the driver’s identity and his whereabouts were not clear Monday night, he said...