Look too calm, you're suspicious. Look too nervous, you're suspicious. These contradictory assumptions are just several transportation guidelines on "reporting suspicious activity," revealed by an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
They comes from an employee document for Amtrak, which is publicly funded.
These are signs that you should be paranoid of your fellow Americans, and call the police on them:
These are signs that you should be paranoid of your fellow Americans, and call the police on them:
- Evasive path through train station
- Carrying little or no luggage
- Last minute reservation
- Traveling by an unusual itinerary (multi-changes in reservations)
- Carrying unusually large amount of currency
- Purchase of tickets in cash
- Purchase tickets immediately prior to boarding
- Unusual nervousness of traveler
- Unusual calmness or straight ahead stare
- Looking around while making telephone call(s)
- Position among passengers disembarking (ahead of, or lagging behind passengers)
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