This reminds me of an experience we had when we lived in NY. Our home was very very high on a cliff and if you sat on the balcony you could only see the river but far below there was also a railroad track that ran along the river. One day I was on our balcony and heard a lot of noise down the cliff and got in the car and drove down to see what was going on. There was a very long freight train stopped and the engineer yelling at the person and the police just arriving. It seem the person owned a small dock on the river and was claiming that he owned the road to it which crossed the the train tracks, therefore he owned the track and wanted to be paid a fee to let the train to pass. In the meantime the engineer was yelling he had to be in Chicago at a certain time and this was making him miss his schedule. The cops finally took the dock owner away, probably to the funny farm and the train proceeded. Don't know how this correlates to the post other than we live in a crazy world.
