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So a weird thing happened on the Metro tonight. I was coming home from work a little late tonight, and three butt-ugly 18 year old hooligan-types boarded the train at Woodley Park. The train started to leave the station but stopped suddenly saying that the trains were single-tracking. Now of all the years I've been riding the Metro, part of this seemed a little bit unusual. Not the single-tracking part, but 1) if they knew they were single-tracking, normally they would wait at the station with the doors open so anyone coming down the escalators could board, and 2) normally they would tell us the two stations the trains were single-tracking between. Of course I just brushed it off to an incompetent driver. Anyway, we waited there at the station with the doors closed for about 10 minutes while the hooligans were cursing up a storm. All of a sudden, one door to the train I was riding opened, and in came six police officers. They scanned the seats and went up to the three kids and asked if they had just been involved in a car accident. They said no, and the police officers told them to get off the train. They complied and were taken to one end of the station where the officers started to interrogate them. At that point the doors closed and proceded forward. At the next station, there was no mention of the single-tracking. I wonder what kind of trouble those boys got themselves into?