A paranoid train driver crashed his loco off its tracks in a bid to destroy a US Navy hospital ship aimed at helping Los Angeles hospitals during the coronavirus outbreak conspiracy theorist train driver drove his speeding locomotive off its tracks to try and destroy a coronavirus hospital ship, police say. Eduardo Moreno, 44, crashed the engine at the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday in a bit to destroy the US Navy Hospital Ship Mercy, which will help relieve pressure on the city’s hospitals during the pandemic. Asked why he had crashed the train, Moreno reportedly claimed he’d been aiming for the Mercy, which he alleged was a cover-up for a government takeover. According to a criminal complaint, the engineer for the Pacific Harbor freight railway company said: ‘You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching. I had to. People don’t know what’s going on here. Now they will.’ Moreno’s train smashed through a series of barriers and fences, before coming to rest more than 250 yards away from the Mercy, which did not sustain any damage. No-one was injured in the alleged train attack. Port of Los Angeles spokesman Phillip Sanfield said the train would have had to slice through another large swathe of parking lot and make it across a water channel before striking the Mercy, and said it would have been nigh-on impossible to hit. Moreno was arrested by a California Highway Patrol officer who witnessed the crash, then saw him trying to flee the scene. Describing the orgy of destruction, that cop reported seeing ‘the train smash into a concrete barrier at the end of the track, smash into a steel barrier, smash into a chain-link fence, slide through a parking lot, slide across another lot filled with gravel, and smash into a second chain-link fence.’ Man attempted to ram US Navy hospital ship with train Play Video has now been charged with train wrecking and is being investigated by the FBI anti-terrorism agents. California has seen almost 8,000 coronavirus diagnoses and 150 deaths.
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