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Saw reddit thread about this. Long discussion there. Evidence against the guy is kind of weak. He is a train buff, he has a youtube channel full of train videos, he goes out with a camera and tripod and films trains as they go by, and posts the videos. He has been doing that for years. He has dozens or hundreds of those videos online.
This time the train went off the track. That appeared in his video and he called it in, so they think he did it. The suspicious things were that he knew the train derailed because of a rail switch being in the wrong position (he said that was obvious, idk) and that he knew where the switch was (according to reddit, that is something that a rail nerd filming a particular location is perfectly likely to know).
So, unless they have something stronger than what I saw earlier, I'm not convinced.
From the article, it sounds like they have video of him walking towards the switch, running back, and then setting up to video the area. They don't have him actually tampering with the switch
I wouldn't be surprised if selection bias is at work and they had visited various switch locations and decided to film in places where and when they suspected there was likely to be a failure. See yovo68ʼs 11foot8 bridge videos for an example.
Sure, but maybe yovo68 built that bridge there to catch tall vehicles?
Has anyone really checked they aren’t an 80 year old that foresaw the rise of YouTube and used anti-bus sentiment to convince a bunch of racist city planners to give them a steady supply of funny videos? Maybe they knew they could monetize it and that was their retirement plan? Inquiring idiots would like to know!