Off topic shoot. Sorry, but this story really bums me. At the request of the Texas Highway Patrol, I helped stop a man on the I-30 frontage road who was driving irradically. When the driver stopped, he got out of his car and approached mine asking for directions when the THP finally arrived. This guy could have caused about half a dozen serious wrecks by the way he was driving At the time, frontage roads on both the Eastbound and Westbound sides of the Interstate were bi-directional. That's since changed.
After the Trooper evaluated the driver, he came back to me and told me that the guy didn't have a lick of alcohol on him. Turned out he was diabetic and didn't have his insulin with him. He couldn't be charged with DUI, but I'm sure he could have been charged with reckless endangerment.
Fast forward to this story. Amtrak should have a breathalizer onboard to determine if someone who is acting beligerent is drunk or suffering from a medical anomolie. Either way, the passenger probably needed to be removed - just like the driver in my story needed to get off the road. But then the question becomes "By ambulance or by cop". At no time, EVER should Amtrak drop off a human being without some sort of postive transfer of responsibility. I'm thankful that this man was found and taken care of. Amtrak has some 'splainin' to do to the family.