Molly, you’re one of the few journalists at Gizmodo with actual (if still fairly fresh) bona fides in the field, I sincerely hope you realize that the irony in this piece originating from Gizmodo Media Group is thick. You work for the poster child of Yellow Journalism.

You mock, but I’d love to see how the pay and benefits compare to G/O. 

Who do you think pays for the insurance or Amazon’s costs in the long run? Why is damaging a train car less objectionable than damaging someone’s front door?

Sounds like UP has security guards. Does Erin have security guards?

Did you even read the article?

They are trashing the environment directly by just throwing the shitty items and all the plastic packaging out the side of the train, as visible in the photo right in the headline. Then there is the environmental costs of the companies having to re-ship these items when they don’t arrive the first time. 

LPL videos are excellent entertainment, but I used to live in “the bad part of town”, and thieves don’t care about “non-destructive” entry.  Often, they don’t even check the lock before they kick in the door.  The side entry door to my garage was unlocked the first time it was kicked in.

Can we stop with this “people have it hard because Covid and rich people” BS? Have you not seen the massive labor shortage going on? The huge increases in base pay to try to get anyone to show up? Stores and restaurants having to shut down or limit hours because they literally can’t get people to work?

Yep. People marvel at how fast the Lock Picking Lawyer can open things but forget that portable spinny wheels take but a few seconds.

If the train didn’t want it, it shouldn’t have worn such a flimsy lock.

So it is the rail yard’s fault that it just looks too unprotected and thieves can’t control themselves. 

Go away Russia

Tesla shareholders, stonk bros and crypto nuts. Essentially annoying single guys who you try to get away from whenever they start a conversation.

Sounds like UP has security guards. Does Erin have security guards?

I mean, if you ever get burgled, remember - you had a choice to secure your house and chose not to. 

I wonder if Erin would be quite as cool with stealing if thieves broke into her home and took her stuff. The thought experiment can assume that these thieves are “suffering from income inequality” or are “desperate”. Perhaps “shit has even been real” lately for them?

Me after reading this article excusing blatant theft

Stealing is not a good thing to do, we all know that. Thieves are out to make a quick buck at the expense of someone else. But this strikes me more as desperate, wholesale looting than property crime.

“Now, every outlet is calling these folks thieves, and sure, that’s technically correct.”

Sources told CBSLA that the locks Union Pacific uses are easy to cut,