Stalled Amtrak Passengers Offered Luxury of Pooping in Cardboard Box
Acela, in happier times. Photo: Amtrak Passengers on a Boston-bound Amtrak train were stuck for six hours yesterday having only just left Penn Station. They had no reception and they had no power. And no power meant “unflushable” toilets. Amtrak, dauntless, had a compromise for its stalled passengers: taking a dump in a cardboard box. Apparently, conductors on the high-speed Acela kept passengers calm, according to a report from Boston’s local WBZ-TV. Train 2230 was hot, it was stuffy, the toilets were unflushable, there were probably horrific smells, but its passengers never seemed to have...
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