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Man stabbed stranger on Austin bus because he looked like his uncle, police say
 

AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been charged with murder after admitting to stabbing a man on a CapMetro bus in South Austin Wednesday night.
 

When police arrived on scene, they located the victim, identified as 30-year-old Akshay Gupta, with trauma to his body. Life-saving measures were conducted but Gupta was pronounced dead at 7:30 p.m.

During the investigation, detectives learned that the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Deepak Kandel, stabbed Gupta in the neck without being provoked. Once the bus stopped, Kandel exited the bus with other passengers and left the scene on foot.

 

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/man-stabs-stranger-austin-capmetro-bus-looked-like-his-uncle/269-074d2e93-6f73-463b-a6d4-24e110433d6a

 

yes, yes. Lets bulldoze Dirty’s and roads for more public transportation.  Random neck stabbings are just a cost of doing business. 

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4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Jeez. The India/Pakistan fallout hitting close to home now. 

Crazy south asian dude using the "all south asian dudes look the same" defense was not on my bingo card for 2025.  But that's my mistake.  Everything utterly insane and batshit should be on that bingo card.

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4 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Man stabbed stranger on Austin bus because he looked like his uncle, police say
 

AUSTIN, Texas — A man has been charged with murder after admitting to stabbing a man on a CapMetro bus in South Austin Wednesday night.
 

When police arrived on scene, they located the victim, identified as 30-year-old Akshay Gupta, with trauma to his body. Life-saving measures were conducted but Gupta was pronounced dead at 7:30 p.m.

During the investigation, detectives learned that the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Deepak Kandel, stabbed Gupta in the neck without being provoked. Once the bus stopped, Kandel exited the bus with other passengers and left the scene on foot.

 

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/man-stabs-stranger-austin-capmetro-bus-looked-like-his-uncle/269-074d2e93-6f73-463b-a6d4-24e110433d6a

 

yes, yes. Lets bulldoze Dirty’s and roads for more public transportation.  Random neck stabbings are just a cost of doing business. 

So instead of 25 people riding all of Cap Metro we're down to 23.

We'll be back to 24 in a day or two once Deepak is let out of jail and given a lollipop and pat on the back from Garza upon leaving. 

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You morons raving against public transportation are hilarious. I’ve lived places with great public transportation infrastructure, and guess what? It’s great and it’s not scary. I hope you moved to Texas because you make Texans look like cowards. 

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1 hour ago, Bolero88 said:

You morons raving against public transportation are hilarious. I’ve lived places with great public transportation infrastructure, and guess what? It’s great and it’s not scary. I hope you moved to Texas because you make Texans look like cowards. 

Yeah. NYC subway only had 10 murders, 561 felony assaults, a rape of a corpse and a sleeping rider burned alive last year.  Texas cowards couldn’t handle that. 

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APA, county attorney clash over CapMetro stabbing suspect's arrest history

The Austin Police Association has expressed frustration following the arrest of Deepak Kandel, who admitted to stabbing Akshay Gupta on a CapMetro bus Wednesday evening. Court records reveal Kandel's extensive arrest history, including serious offenses, with prosecutors declining to prosecute him multiple times.

 

According to the Travis County database, Kandel has been arrested more than a dozen times, with prosecutors declining to prosecute him four times, filing no charges twice, and dismissing his case three other times.

 

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/apa-county-attorney-clash-over-capmetro-stabbing-suspects-arrest-history

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20 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Yeah. NYC subway only had 10 murders, 561 felony assaults, a rape of a corpse and a sleeping rider burned alive last year.  Texas cowards couldn’t handle that. 

Would you care to tell me how many deaths from driving accidents there were on Texas roads last year? It was a heck of a lot more than 10. 

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4 minutes ago, Bolero88 said:

Would you care to tell me how many deaths from driving accidents there were on Texas roads last year? It was a heck of a lot more than 10. 

How many corpses got raped after those accidents?

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8 minutes ago, Bolero88 said:

Would you care to tell me how many deaths from driving accidents there were on Texas roads last year? It was a heck of a lot more than 10. 

Just like flying is much safer than driving, you’re probably extremely more safe on public transportation than in your own vehicle. 23x more likely to die driving your car than riding a bus 

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11 minutes ago, Deej said:

How many corpses got raped after those accidents?

Don't  kinkshame.

7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Just like flying is much safer than driving, you’re probably extremely more safe on public transportation than in your own vehicle. 23x more likely to die driving your car than riding a bus 

Yeah, but there are no black people in my car.

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14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Just like flying is much safer than driving, you’re probably extremely more safe on public transportation than in your own vehicle. 23x more likely to die driving your car than riding a bus 

But you die a little inside every time you ride a bus.

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Seriously, I & my family would be delighted if Austin had an extensive public transportation system, and would use it. 

I’ve ridden the Tokyo-Yokohama high speed rail, the subways in NYC, the Tube in London, electric streetcars in St. Louis, school buses in Puerto Rico & Taiwan, the San Francisco cable cars, chicken buses around Mexico, trains across the USA, Mexico & Panama, the Las Vegas monorails, and shuttle buses in numerous cities including those to UT football games. Enjoyed the convenience of them all. 

But I have my doubts if the CoA and Capital Metro could run an extensive system with even a modicum of competence & fiscal responsibility. 
Perhaps someday they will.

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5 hours ago, Armybrat said:

But I have my doubts if the CoA and Capital Metro could run an extensive system with even a modicum of competence & fiscal responsibility. 

I applaud your level of optimism. 

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9 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Seriously, I & my family would be delighted if Austin had an extensive public transportation system, and would use it. 

I’ve ridden the Tokyo-Yokohama high speed rail, the subways in NYC, the Tube in London, electric streetcars in St. Louis, school buses in Puerto Rico & Taiwan, the San Francisco cable cars, chicken buses around Mexico, trains across the USA, Mexico & Panama, the Las Vegas monorails, and shuttle buses in numerous cities including those to UT football games. Enjoyed the convenience of them all. 

But I have my doubts if the CoA and Capital Metro could run an extensive system with even a modicum of competence & fiscal responsibility. 
Perhaps someday they will.

We literally couldn't run a toy train around the park.

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14 hours ago, Bolero88 said:

You morons raving against public transportation are hilarious. I’ve lived places with great public transportation infrastructure, and guess what? It’s great and it’s not scary. I hope you moved to Texas because you make Texans look like cowards. 

It's Austin. 

Enjoy your visit to Earth.

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The people of Austin are willing to pay for mass transit. In fact, they already are, based on the promise of several new lines. What did we get? One additional line that *might* be operational by 2033.

Attitude of the taxpayers is not the problem. Delivering on promises is.

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14 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

The people of Austin are willing to pay for mass transit. In fact, they already are, based on the promise of several new lines. What did we get? One additional line that *might* be operational by 2033.

Attitude of the taxpayers is not the problem. Delivering on promises is.

 

This isn't a problem with just Austin. Its well known that it is almost impossible to build any major infrastructure on time and on budget anywhere in the US. 

Bridges, electrical transmission lines, pipelines, highways, mass transit, etc. Its a problem everywhere. 

 

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On 5/17/2025 at 7:31 AM, Bolero88 said:

You morons raving against public transportation are hilarious. I’ve lived places with great public transportation infrastructure, and guess what? It’s great and it’s not scary. I hope you moved to Texas because you make Texans look like cowards. 

Have you lived in places where they promise you 27 miles of lightrail and take billions, only to have multiples of overrun before the first shovel hits the ground?  Where they promise you a subway and a line to the airport, and by the time they finalize the plan, you have 10 miles of the original 27, all above ground, and not even close to getting you to the airport?

Are you the asshole that goes to a seafood place and orders a steak?  Do you go to a country bar and pump three dollars into the juke box and start playing Celine Dion for 10 songs straight?  No one moved to Austin for their public transportation.  

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I was born here, so don't be a presumptive jerk. I would much rather live in an Austin with great public transportation. And the point of my post was to make fun of the goobers that are literally afraid of public transportation. All the people in here that are against public transportation in Austin come across as social misanthropes that would be better off living somewhere else. Just a bunch of grumpy old men who worship at the alter of the car and wish every city was built like Houston. Notice I didn't defend the running of cap metro, but you guys don't offer any solutions, you just whine. 

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On 5/3/2025 at 3:34 AM, Your Mom said:

Do Leanderthals belong in this thread?  

Assistant Principal blows a .282 BAC after hitting a guy on a bike right in front of her own school, on her way to work at 7:15 on a Monday morning. 

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/leander-isd-assistant-principal-dwi-hitting-bicyclist-reed-elementary-school/269-9798403f-a836-4e44-b412-322018103ae0?ref=exit-recirc

.28 should not be a misdemeanor, jesus christ.

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59 minutes ago, Bolero88 said:

I was born here, so don't be a presumptive jerk. I would much rather live in an Austin with great public transportation. And the point of my post was to make fun of the goobers that are literally afraid of public transportation. All the people in here that are against public transportation in Austin come across as social misanthropes that would be better off living somewhere else. Just a bunch of grumpy old men who worship at the alter of the car and wish every city was built like Houston. Notice I didn't defend the running of cap metro, but you guys don't offer any solutions, you just whine. 

Houston has a functioning light rail system with >40k daily riders. Just saying.

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2 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Do you go to a country bar and pump three dollars into the juke box and start playing Celine Dion for 10 songs straight?  No one moved to Austin for their public transportation.  

C'mon now... this dude is a hero

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2 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Have you lived in places where they promise you 27 miles of lightrail and take billions, only to have multiples of overrun before the first shovel hits the ground?  Where they promise you a subway and a line to the airport, and by the time they finalize the plan, you have 10 miles of the original 27, all above ground, and not even close to getting you to the airport?

case in point:

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On 5/17/2025 at 9:44 AM, Armybrat said:

Seriously, I & my family would be delighted if Austin had an extensive public transportation system, and would use it. 

I’ve ridden the Tokyo-Yokohama high speed rail, the subways in NYC, the Tube in London, electric streetcars in St. Louis, school buses in Puerto Rico & Taiwan, the San Francisco cable cars, chicken buses around Mexico, trains across the USA, Mexico & Panama, the Las Vegas monorails, and shuttle buses in numerous cities including those to UT football games. Enjoyed the convenience of them all. 

But I have my doubts if the CoA and Capital Metro could run an extensive system with even a modicum of competence & fiscal responsibility. 
Perhaps someday they will.

Instead of getting harassed and stabbed on a bus, we can get harassed and stabbed on a rail. That's a win for all of us.

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2 hours ago, Bolero88 said:

I was born here, so don't be a presumptive jerk. I would much rather live in an Austin with great public transportation. And the point of my post was to make fun of the goobers that are literally afraid of public transportation. All the people in here that are against public transportation in Austin come across as social misanthropes that would be better off living somewhere else. Just a bunch of grumpy old men who worship at the alter of the car and wish every city was built like Houston. Notice I didn't defend the running of cap metro, but you guys don't offer any solutions, you just whine. 

I just got back from a week in DC and rode the Metro everywhere I went.  I would not have ridden it if it did not go to the airport and required me to wait in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue in the rain.  We have the same problem here with the heat.  Also, DCA was built either by a crazy person or by a committee.

Here's my non-negotiables for an Austin transit system:

The initial system should connect:

* the airport
* the convention center
* downtown and the capitol complex
* Guad/The Drag/West Campus
* DKR/UT PAC/Moody/Disch Falk -- a stop near where the UT police station is today
* something near the long center
* branch out from there once you have the basics covered

All stations should be protected from the climate.  Either go underground like the DC Metro/BART/Seattle Link or go up with the gondola idea.  No one should have to wait in the heat standing in the middle of car traffic.

No one should have to wait at a station for more than 10 minutes before they can start their trip.  Maybe a little longer at the ends of the system but the core system should be every 5 minutes or better.

People should feel safe riding the system.  The cars and the stations should be clean and in good repair.  Fares should be affordable to all.

All stations outside of the core stations above should be located in an area that is willing to accept tall buildings with office/retail/housing, at least in the 1/4 mile around the station.  Domain, you're in.  Circle C, you're out.  These neighborhoods should be required to reserve the ground floor for retail.  West Campus, you're tall but your ground floor retail sucks.  These neighborhoods need some reasonably priced parking garages mixed in with the tall buildings, at least for the next 25 years.  Maybe you live in Brentwood but you can drive and park in a dense new neighborhood where the DPS property now is and park and ride from there.  Eventually Waymo is going to get you that last mile.

The system should be designed like DC's Metro and BART, where lines come in from the burbs and then double up in the central core, so that trains run very frequently in the central city.

Project Connect's original proposal did much of this, but Project Connect as it is today is not going to accomplish this.  They dangled pretty pictures of downtown tunnels and folks getting on the system at the airport in front of voters, and folks bought in.  Then they bait and switched down to a system that is going to end up like San Jose's VTA.  We should re-vote, and if people still want the proposed system at the proposed tax cost, then we should do it.  Otherwise we should think again.

We have a Red Line that costs about $50 in tax dollars per ride.  A pathetic tiny two car train every 30 minutes.  The same crew that brought you that is going to bring you an underutilized train system.  Is Cap Metro being introspective at all on the value of providing this service at this price?  Or willing to change?  No they are not.  They just keep plugging ahead with Plan A even at a tremendous cost to the taxpayer.

 

 

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We can’t even bring back the fucking Airport Flyer which was an excellent way to get to the airport from downtown, especially with a direct stop at the UT Campus. The city can’t even do the bare minimum to look like it’s making progress. 

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8 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Have you lived in places where they promise you 27 miles of lightrail and take billions, only to have multiples of overrun before the first shovel hits the ground?  Where they promise you a subway and a line to the airport, and by the time they finalize the plan, you have 10 miles of the original 27, all above ground, and not even close to getting you to the airport?

Are you the asshole that goes to a seafood place and orders a steak?  Do you go to a country bar and pump three dollars into the juke box and start playing Celine Dion for 10 songs straight?  No one moved to Austin for their public transportation.  

Maybe like 20 years ago I was definitely the asshole who would hit the jukebox at casino for an amazing rendition of pulp's common people as performed by one william shatner.

regulars and staff were pretty unimpressed by that move but I felt that if it was there on the jukebox, it was fair fucking game, and I felt like it fit the vibe of the place perfectly

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10 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

Maybe like 20 years ago I was definitely the asshole who would hit the jukebox at casino for an amazing rendition of pulp's common people as performed by one william shatner.

regulars and staff were pretty unimpressed by that move but I felt that if it was there on the jukebox, it was fair fucking game, and I felt like it fit the vibe of the place perfectly

That was YOU?

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On 5/17/2025 at 9:44 AM, Armybrat said:

Seriously, I & my family would be delighted if Austin had an extensive public transportation system, and would use it. 

I’ve ridden the Tokyo-Yokohama high speed rail, the subways in NYC, the Tube in London, electric streetcars in St. Louis, school buses in Puerto Rico & Taiwan, the San Francisco cable cars, chicken buses around Mexico, trains across the USA, Mexico & Panama, the Las Vegas monorails, and shuttle buses in numerous cities including those to UT football games. Enjoyed the convenience of them all. 

But I have my doubts if the CoA and Capital Metro could run an extensive system with even a modicum of competence & fiscal responsibility. 
Perhaps someday they will.

you forgot the Pony Express...😁

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From WSJ:

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Nearly five years after Austin, Texas, became a darling of the tech industry, luring companies out of California with the promise of lower taxes and a better quality of life, the city is now bleeding tech talent that is flowing back to the coasts.

A new report from venture-capital firm SignalFire shows that in 2024 Big Tech employment declined 1.6% in Austin, and startup employment fell 4.9%. Tech employment in Dallas and Houston also declined, along with cities like Denver and Toronto. Tech employment grew, on the other hand, in New York and San Francisco. 

It is a shift from five years ago, when Texas seemed like a growing Sunbelt beacon for tech, luring companies like Tesla, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Oracle from California, and inspiring a number of remote tech workers and startups to follow them. But many of those companies have since laid off workers and Oracle actually relocated from Texas to Nashville, Tenn.

“I think that promise was never realized,” said Asher Bantock, SignalFire’s head of research. “This idea that it would become a new startup hub didn’t materialize.”

Return-to-office requirements combined with the burgeoning artificial-intelligence industry centralizing in Silicon Valley drew workers back West, while Austin’s fluctuating living costs and outdated infrastructure left new transplants frustrated, Bantock said. 

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39 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

also if someone works in Texas they can just be fired during layoff time. workers might be learning about the zero employee protections we have in this state

And the dwindling amount of personal freedoms. And the property taxes 

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I love it when recent transplants complain about tech bros as a recent phenomenon.  "Tech bros moved in since 2012/2018/2020 (pick an arbitrary number) and ruined my Austin."

Meanwhile in 1984...

https://archive.ph/aDlHj

It's a pretty cool article read through the lens of 1984.  Funny to read Bobby Rain Inman's comments about land prices being inflated in 1984 and "...Things won’t explode in the next twenty-four months. Land prices in the Austin area may go back down.”

This is a gem, though... 

The city most often accused of dropping the high-tech ball is Houston. As Inman and others have testified, Houston didn’t even enter the competition for MCC. Mayor Kathy Whitmire promised during her reelection campaign last fall to attract high-tech industry to the city. So far the only response has been from the Cynergy Corporation, which works on special-effects technology for movies. It plans a headquarters in Friendswood. Many in the industry feel that Houston is simply too big, too crowded, too expensive, and too just plain ugly to compete for high-tech companies. Besides lacking adequate streets, sewers, and police protection, Houston has none of the hills, lakes, and other natural amenities that bless Austin. In fact, high tech may have more to offer Houston than Houston has to offer it. 

 

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On 5/16/2025 at 10:02 AM, PvilleStang said:

Did you have "CamGirl Faith losing to the good year blimp" on your 2024 Bingo card?

If I had known she was a Religious Studies major, I would have.

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