DONKEY: 2 Teens Break Into Railroad Facilities, Stealing and Crashing A Train

Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to two teens who broke into railroad facilities, stole a train, and then crashed it. Listen for more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're trying to be a fake ass charlamage.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
They only wants charlamage. Damn Chalomame who is given dusky
other day soon now well, Sexy red Donkey today for Thursday,
August fourteenth goes to two teenagers in my home state
of South Carolina. They're teenagers, so I don't have their names.
But this isn't really about them. It's about us, Okay,
a teachable moment. See, I'm thinking about President Trump and
the federal takeover DC, the police, and you know, mobilization

(00:25):
of the National Guard.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yes, we know.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
This is yet another distraction that the Trump the Trump
administration has created to attempt to get people to stop
talking about the Epstein files. But listening to the President
cite a lot of false and misleading claims about murder
and youth crime in the nation's capital got me thinking,
just because the data and information he may have cited
is wrong, doesn't mean that youth crime in DC and
all over the country isn't happening. Because, let's be honest,

(00:49):
we all know it is, and we all know why
it is because the powers that be aren't doing anything
to truly combat crime in our communities. They never have Okay,
if you aren't addressing the social and economic factors that
contribute to crime, then you're not serious about combating crime.
But we're gonna get back to that because I need
to talk about these teenagers. In South Carolina, two juveniles
have been detained for stealing a train and causing a derailment.

(01:12):
This is impressive, stupid, but impressive because I've never, ever, ever,
ever heard of somebody commit a crime like this. Let's
go to NBC four for the report.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Police two teams in Lawrence County are facing charges for
taking a joy ride in a train. Lawrence Police said
it happened sometimes Saturday night. They say two juveniles unlawfully
entered both the Carolina Piedmont Railroad and CSX Transportation Railroad
facilities and stole a train. Investigators say they drove around
the rail yard and when they tried to return the engines,
they crashed into parked railcars, causing a derailment. Official say

(01:42):
both those teens face several charges that include second degree burglary,
grand larceny, and malicious damage to property.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Listen, I need all my nieces and nephews out there,
please listen to your uncle. Shalah If you can take
the time to unlawfully into a railroad facility and figure
out how to start an engine of a train that
was connected to other trains, and then drive those three
trains around the yard before taking them onto the rail
line that connects toward Greenville. If you can figure out
how to do all that, damn it, you can do anything. Okay.

(02:10):
There is literally nothing in your mind can conceive that
you can't achieve because your brain told you to do
this and you did it. First of all, my whole life,
I've never thought about driving a train ever. But those
are the kinds of thoughts that if we were investing
in our kids the way we should, they could share
with us and we could help them become an actual
train operator. I wish that these two kids would have

(02:30):
told an adult that, Hey, I want to drive a
train and connecting with someone who can make that dream
come true for them, Okay, like a ride along program
or something. Because I just googled this morning, how do
you become a railroad train operator? And correct me if
I'm wrong. All the railroad train operators out there, but
from what I see, the requirements are pretty basic. Okay,
you could become a railroad train operator by having a
high school diploma are the equivalent of it. It says

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you got to pass a physical exam and complete training
and certification through the Federal Railroad Administration. An entry level
positions often require on the job training and advancement to
engineer roles. They typically involve years of experience as a conductor,
and they make pretty decent money. Okay. The best paying
jobs in railroads include locomotive engineers. They earn around eighty
five grand a year, railroad conductors make about sixty five

(03:15):
a year, Railroad yard masters which I don't even know
what that is, earn up to seventy grand a year,
and signalance WWITCH operators can make over eighty grand. My
point is, kids, if you can spend time and energy
doing the wrong thing, you can use that same time
and energy to do the right thing. But this is
where we, okay, come into play. We are feeling a
lot of our kids. Man. I already know that Trump

(03:35):
administration wants to make America a police state, but making
America a police state isn't going to solve the problem.
You really want to combat crime, you have to deal
with the social and economic factors that contribute the crime.
You know why I invest so much of my personal time, energy,
and resources into mental health initiatives. It's because I understand
that if you help someone be the best version of

(03:56):
themselves mentally and emotionally, you make society better. Okay, when
you help someone deal with their unheald trauma and that
pain and hurt the individual is feeling, when you help
them get some healing, they don't go out here and
project that pain and hurt on the other people. Okay,
but that is dealing with what's in people's head and heart.
We got to start dealing with what is in people's pockets. Okay.

(04:19):
Acting like poverty and crime don't go hand in hand
is retarded. Okay. You have to give these kids opportunity
and something to do. Idle mind is a devil's playground.
When kids don't have nothing to do and no legal
means and making ends meet, they will resort the crime
unless you provide them with opportunity. We know the answers
to all these problems. Are governments know the answers to

(04:40):
these problems. Okay. We got to stop saying the system
is broken, all right. It's designed to do exactly what
it's doing. For example, you want kids to not turn
the crime. Okay. You need strong family support, which is
why this system goes out its way to tell families apart.
You need positive community involvement, after school programs, recreational activities,
mentorship programs, commute the engagement, youth clubs, religious groups. You

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have to give these kids a real sense of belonging.
But they cutting funding for a lot of these programs. Okay,
because they know it gives them purpose. Of course, education,
of course, job training and employment opportunities. Okay, Social and
emotional development that goes into the education piece. They need
to have social and emotional learning from pre k to
twelfth grade. Teach these kids empathy and compassion, conflict resolution skills.

(05:24):
We know the solutions to these problems, but we don't
implement them because the school the prison pipeline is big business. Now,
let's get back to the real root cause poverty and inequality. Okay,
address that and you getting right to the root cause
of reducing the risk factor associated with crime. Mental health support.

(05:45):
I will stress that until the day I die. Okay,
help them deal with their trauma and emotional distress. Early
intervention programs okay, target these at risk youth. Not by
militarizing the police and sending the FEDS into these cities.
Target them with early intervention programs that can prevent them
from developing harmful behaviors and trajectories. Okay, trade schools, steam programs,

(06:08):
job call and once again, mental health services. Okay. See
when I look at these kids who went for a
joy ride on this train before they deralted, I don't
see lost causes. Okay, I see the right energy going
in the wrong direction. Because once again, if they can
come up with it and idea to go into a
railroad facility, start a train and drive it, then they
can walk into a trade school and then how to

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do HVAC. Okay, they can go to school in major
and anything in steam. But we have to be their guide.
We have nobody coming to save us because the upward
mobility of these youngins and queens is not part of
the plan of their system. Please give these young teenagers
to stole that train in South Carolina the biggest sy hall.

(06:57):
But we have what have them? I mean, look, oh yeah,
I knew that already. Hi Jess, how are you? I'm good?
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