What's wrong with this story?

@Iwillwait You are preaching to the choir, dude. Paper money is essentially illegal in the United States now. You only "own" it until you are stopped by law enforcement for...any reason at all. Then if you have more money on you than you could spend on dinner at a fast casual type food place...
Well, that's money that you used to own...

What's really infuriating is that when money is "adopted" by law enforcement, most of it goes to the agency that "adopted" it. So there's tremendous monetary incentive for cops to find money and deem that money to be suspicious because it is....MONEY.

@mikeylyksit So If I have a lousy Grand on my person, they'll take it? 😤

@Iwillwait Yes. In fact, they are more likely to take small amounts, as people will (most likely) not SUE to get the money back. A thousand? Yes, that will be taken.

@Oster1 Sad to say, there's more than a hint of truth in that statement...

@mikeylyksit what does "re-homed," mean?

@Iwillwait It's a cute term to imply that your money needs a new home, and therefore they are doing you a service by taking your money away from you. It's for the good of the money, see? Think of it like adopting a dog from the local shelter. You are re-homing the poor orphaned puppy. The cops are under the impression that your money will be happier in their pockets than yours. Understand now?

@mikeylyksit I do. Imma fundnap my money back! 😤

@Longpatrol That's not the way I see it. It points to a procedural issue somewhere. Imagine if armed feds routinely raided loaded airplanes looking for drugs, weapons, cash, etc...

If it's a necessity to "routinely" raid Amtrak, then...are there ZERO precautions used to prevent people from bringing drugs, weapons, etc...on to the trains?

Or do they deliberately not check passengers entering the trains so that the armed feds can raid it later?

Either way, does not compute...

@mikeylyksit They would have to have a good reason to have done it in the very first raid(and are warrants required?), perhaps the reason still stands?

@Longpatrol Warrants? I think you time-warped back to the 50s. The 1850s, that is.
Considering that there were good guys and bad guys shot, I guess you could say (after-the-fact) that the armed feds had good reason to invade the passenger car of the amtrak.

But that leads to the obvious question....

How do drugs, weapons, etc...get on the train in the first place? As I wrote before, can you imagine this raid happening on a loaded commercial passenger jet?

@SW-User How do yo mean that? Please clarify. I'm not sure whether I'd agree or disagree.

@SW-User In U.S., "Amtrak" train implies it is a route that crosses the country, or goes from one region of the country to another. It's kind of an old-fashioned way to travel. Most people would fly or drive or even take a bus. But you can still ride a train on the few routes that still run. On these routes, the trains will make regular stops, especially as they pass through urban areas, to drop off and pick up passengers. I have ridden Amtrak across the U.S. before. But I don't remember the train being raided by armed feds. I WOULD REMEMBER THAT.