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	neurodiversity.com \| the case of darius mccollum
		McCollum was charged yesterday with criminal impersonation, one day after the police arrested him at Macombs Place and 150th Street in Manhattan on allegations that he broke parole and unlawfully had transit paraphernalia.
		Darius McCollum was a very high profile case for the AS community that was outraged that the judge literally REFUSED to have him evaluated for AS and would NOT let this into the record.
		Darius McCollum is, in a sense, the Frank Abagnale Jr.
	www.neurodiversity.com /darius.html (770 words)

	Indefensible: Trainman (Darius McCollum) Sentenced (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius is obsessed with trains, he’s loved them almost since birth, and driven them since age 15, when he made headlines by driving an E train from Herald Square to the World Trade Center.
		Darius McCollum is, in a sense, the Frank Abagnale Jr.
		But Darius McCollum is back in jail having never been given a chance to put his passion to work on the right side of the law—having been branded a criminal early, the system ignored a dozen chances to break the cycle of offense and incarceration—simply by giving Darius a job with the Transit Authority.
	davidfeige.blogspot.com /2005/04/trainman-darius-mccollum-sentenced.html (1415 words)

	Darius McCollum at AllExperts
		Darius McCollum (born 1965) is a New York resident with a lengthy arrest record for crimes related to trains and the New York City Subway system.
		Darius has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and has been obsessed with trains from an early age, frequently riding various trains around New York for days at a time.
		McCollum has been rejected for employment by NYCTA on numerous occasions, although he is reported to know more about the trains, schedules, procedures and rail operations than any current employee.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/da/darius_mccollum.htm (210 words)

	Irresistible Lure of Subways Keeps Landing Impostor in Jail
		McCollum not only flashes an identity badge (he says he found it) but he produces a letter of authorization on official stationery (he admits to writing it himself, but insists the paper was a gift).
		Elizabeth McCollum said she was advised at the time not to talk about her son's troubled childhood, but her calendar from January 1981, which she still keeps in a dog-eared manila folder, speaks volumes about his torment.
		McCollum said that her son always had trouble fitting in at school, but that his troubles spiraled out of control when, at 10, he was stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors by a student in his special education class.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/national/regional/082400ny-subway.html (1793 words)

	The Legend Of Darius McCollum \| Dead Programmer's Cafe
		He has a quick-to-appear, caricaturishly resonant laugh, like the laugh ascribed to Santa Claus, and he can appreciate certain comedic aspects of what he does, but he often laughs too long or when things aren't funny, as when he mentions that he briefly worked on the LIRR route that Colin Ferguson took to slaughter commuters.
		Darius litters his speech with specialized vocabulary ("BIE incident," "transverse-cab R-110") and unusually formal phrases ("what this particular procedure entails," "the teacher didn't directly have any set curriculum studies").
		He had a hard hat and pirated I.D. Darius considered himself a track-department superintendent, so he signed out track-department vehicles and radios and drove around the city, supervising track maintenance and construction projects and responding to emergencies.
	www.deadprogrammer.com /the-legend-of-darius-mccollum (613 words)

	Drawn to trains, a well-traveled fanatic is back in trouble [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen]
		McCollum, now 39, was arrested again, just two months after being released from jail after being held on a parole violation related to his latest transit-related conviction, his 19th.
		McCollum identified himself to the group, again explaining that he was a safety consultant, the complaint said, and began asking a series of questions about the safety mechanisms of the new M-7 locomotives, which the railroad has rolled out in the last few years.
		McCollum's friends said they thought that he might be able to channel his obsession into a job where he could use his extensive knowledge, and he told them that he was looking for work as a transportation consultant, although he never got his high school diploma.
	www.ble.org /pr/news/pf_headline.asp?id=10746 (1106 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Man who posed as transit worker arrested (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius McCollum, 39, was on parole after serving prison time for his last arrest when transit police found him Friday in the rail yard for Long Island Rail Road.
		In 2001, McCollum pleaded guilty to an incident the previous year in which, posing as a transit supervisor, he tripped a switch that caused a subway train to stop.
		His mother, Elizabeth McCollum, once said that by the time he was 8 he had memorized the city subway system and could direct a person to any point on it without consulting a map or guide.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/14/man_who_posed_as_transit_worker_arrested (358 words)

	TIMES NEWSWEEKLY/THIS WEEK IN OUR COMMUNITY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius McCollum, 35, pleaded guilty, on February 22, to burglary and forgery charges in exchange for the five-year sentence just as jury selection was beginning.
		McCollum’s guilty plea stems from an arrest on February 21, 2000.
		McCollum’s mother, Elizabeth, once said that by the time her son was eight, he had memorized the entire New York City subway system and could direct a person to any point on it without consulting any kind of map or guide.
	www.timesnewsweekly.com /OldSite/040501/NewFiles/PRISON.html (500 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Train snatcher's loco, says shrink (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCollum has no understanding of the consequences of his actions and has no perception of his behaviors being wrong," says a psychiatric report obtained by the Daily News.
		McCollum's lawyer hopes the report, which says McCollum has Asperger's Syndrome, prompts prosecutors to drop charges at a hearing slated for Queens Supreme Court today.
		McCollum, 39, faces 15 years for allegedly trying to steal a 60-ton locomotive from the Long Island Rail Road's Hoban Yards in June.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/230401p-197680c.html (324 words)

	Like Whatever (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius McCollum, without a doubt, is a problem.
		McCollum as having what is called Asperger's disease, sometimes known as "little professor's disease".
		McCollum to the three and a half years in jail.
	www.chromehorse.net /rants/rants2004/200406a_darius.htm (324 words)

	Crimes or an Affliction: A Fixation With Trains
		McCollum, a 35- year-old from Queens, is to be sentenced to two and a half to five years in prison for charges stemming from his impersonating a New York City Transit employee.
		McCollum is experiencing than the array of judges who have determined his fate since he was first arrested as a wide-eyed 15- year-old at the controls of an E train bound for the World Trade Center.
		McCollum sifts through the medical and psychiatric reports and other reams of paperwork that she has faithfully kept on her son, she said, she becomes saddened and angry at the amount of time lost.
	www.trainorders.com /discussion/read.php?4,496406 (2297 words)

	Times Ledger - Transit buff pleads guilty in train case
		Darius McCollum is likely to be sentenced to 1 1/2 to three years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to take a Long Island Rail Road train from a Jamaica yard.
		Darius McCollum, the notorious New York City transit system fanatic and convicted employee imposter, pleaded guilty last Thursday in State Supreme Court in Kew Gardens to attempting to steal a train out of a Jamaica rail yard, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
		McCollum was born in Jamaica and quickly developed an obsession with the city's transit system, according to a 2002 profile in Harper's Magazine.
	www.timesledger.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14073475&BRD=2676&PAG=461&dept_id=542415&rfi=6 (723 words)

	(erielack) NYTimes: Drawn to Trains, a Well-Traveled Fanatic Is Back in
		McCollum, now 39, was arrested again, just two months after being released from jail after being held on a parole violation related to his latest transit-related conviction, his 19th.
		McCollum identified himself to the group, again explaining that he was a safety consultant, the complaint said, and began asking a series of questions about the safety mechanisms of the new M-7 locomotives, which the railroad has rolled out in the last few years.
		McCollum's friends said they thought that he might be able to channel his obsession into a job where he could use his extensive knowledge, and he told them that he was looking for work as a transportation consultant, although he never got his high school diploma.
	www.railfan.net /lists/erielack-digest/200406/msg00205.html (1214 words)

	UTU: News
		McCollum told his parole officer that he was fed up with North Carolina, and then disappeared, violating his parole, a police official said.
		McCollum's fixation with the transit system first got him in trouble at 15, when he was arrested after driving the E train to the World Trade Center from Herald Square.
		McCollum's supporters say the legal system has failed him because they believe he suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that is typically reflected in obsessive behavior.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=31664 (535 words)

	Article from GRASP - SchwabLearning.org
		McCollum, a 40-year-old man with Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism, has spent about a third of his life in prison because of his overwhelming love of the city's transport system, and this month he was convicted again, his eighteenth time.
		On a winter's night in 1981, Darius was riding with the driver of an E train when the driver became ill and asked him to take over.
		Jackson explained that McCollum's record is such that if he had taken the case to trial, there was a possibility that he would face the rest of his life in jail.
	www.schwablearning.org /message_boards/view_messages.asp?thread=10635 (1251 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Spectrum - Off the Rails (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCollum is also surprisingly frank when asked about how his life went so dramatically off the rails, and talks openly and honestly about his career in crime.
		Always a loner, McCollum was 11 when he was stabbed in the back by a classmate in a completely unprovoked attack, puncturing a lung and just missing his heart.
		But, McCollum admits, twirling the broad silver wedding ring on his left hand and giving me one of his beguiling smiles, he still loves Nelly passionately and wants to have a child with her.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /spectrum.cfm?id=826672003 (2761 words)

	UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius McCollum, whom friends say has a mental disorder, has been charged with attempted grand larceny, criminal impersonation and other offenses for his alleged effort to drive away with the M-7 Bombardier locomotive he had been asking about Friday at the Queens rail yard, a prosecutor said.
		McCollum had appeared at the yard in disguise with phoney identification, when workers became suspicious, officials said.
		McCollum, who has 20 arrests for transit-related stunts, has stolen several trains and buses during the last 23 years, including a train he commandeered for six stops at age 15 in 1981.
	washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20040615-053834-5950r.htm (613 words)

	1010 WINS - ALL NEWS. ALL THE TIME.: Man Admits Trying To Steal LIRR Train (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius McCollum, 39, went into a Long Island Rail Road yard, posed as a safety consultant and asked representatives of a locomotive company how to operate a new type of engine that had just been delivered, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a news release.
		McCollum left the train yard when his identification was questioned, and he was found with stolen keys, including one used to operate the new locomotive, Brown said.
		McCollum pleaded guilty to third-degree attempted grand larceny before Justice Steven Paynter and faces up to three years in prison when he is sentenced on March 28, Brown said.
	1010wins.com /topstories/local_story_055193902.html (387 words)

	Gothamist: Subway Stealing Legend Arrested Again
		The most famous metrophile* in recent memory, Darius McCollum, has struck again: He was found by police in the LIRR's rail yards in Jamaica, Queens, carrying various transit keys (engineer, universal, and switch), transit workers' clothes and a hard hat.
		The director of Boy Steals Train, a play about McCollum, who befriended him said and is devestated by this arrest said McCollum was wearing "a hardhat and a reflector vest." McCollum is suspected to have Asperger's syndrome, which similar to autism, beacuse of his obsessive habits.
		Darius McCollum, the infamous train thief, but who upon his last parole had started to become a member of our community here in NYC, didn't make it to a few meetings and fell off his own special brand of wagon, infiltrating a train yard in Queens where he was arrested on the spot.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/06/14/subway_stealing_legend_arrested_again.php (693 words)

	'ASPERGER'S SUFFERER' JAILED FOR POSING AS SUBWAY SUPERVISOR (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius McCollum, 35, pleaded guilty on February 22 to burglary and forgery charges in exchange for the five-year sentence just as jury selection was beginning.
		The judge added: "The press seems to think he's not responsible for his actions, and his parents seem to think it's amusing." She said McCollum was just as responsible as anyone who had diabetes or AIDS and committed a crime.
		McCollum showed police a letter on transit authority letterhead stating he was an employee, but he eventually confessed.
	www.webspawner.com /users/asperger/subway.html (419 words)

	The Laboratorium: June 2002 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		McCollum is very unlucky in his fixation, precisely because it leads him out into the world, into a place where he's not technically allowed to be.
		McCollum is obsessed with the subway; he's obsessed with working on the subway, and he certainly seems to be good at it.
		McCollum like and trust him, but the MTA has got to be worrying about what will happen if something ever goes wrong while he's nearby.
	www.laboratorium.net /archives/2002_06.html (5435 words)

	Psychology Resource Center for Students
		Darius has a history of psychiatric problems that began at the age of ten, after a student in his special education class stabbed him in the back with a pair of scissors.
		Ten years ago when Darius moved with his parents to New Carolina, Darius stole a car to get back to New York and the subway and was convicted and served time in a North Carolina prison for car theft.
		Darius says he can't explain his fascination with the subway, though he admits he likes the attention, the activity, the noise, the people--and the trains.
	college.hmco.com /psychology/resources/students/news/news_20001019c.html (470 words)

	Autism Vox darius mccollum
		Obsession or Crime?: Darius McCollum & the NYC Subway
		43 year old Darius McCollum was arrested Saturday for the 23rd time for being in a secure area of the Columbus Circle subway station in Manhattan while wearing clothing that resembles that of a transit worker’s uniform.
		According to WCBS news radio, “Sympathizers claim McCollum’s nocturnal infiltrations stem from Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism […;]
	www.autismvox.com /tag/darius-mccollum (289 words)

	Abnormal Psychology in the News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Darius has a history of psychiatric problems that began at the age of 10, after a student in his special education class stabbed him in the back with a pair of scissors.
		Ten years ago when Darius moved with his parents to North Carolina, Darius stole a car to get back to New York and the subway, and was convicted and served time in a North Carolina prison for car theft.
		Darius says he can't explain his fascination with the subway, though he admits he likes the attention, the activity, the noise, the people—and the trains.
	www.mhhe.com /mayfieldpub/schwartz/news/news15.htm (460 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Infamous New York transit thief caught again
		Darius McCollum, 39, who first came to the attention of authorities in 1981 at age 15 when he commandeered a subway train, was arrested Friday only two months after his release from prison for another transit-related crime.
		Kelly declined to specify what McCollum had, but he emphasized that his arrest in the Long Island Rail Road train yards was not terrorism-related.
		McCollum was charged with grand larceny, criminal impersonation, possession of stolen property and trespassing, officials said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040614-0534-security-train.html (254 words)

	Fake New York Transit Worker Pleads Guilty (phillyBurbs.com)
		In June, Darius McCollum, 39, went into a Long Island Rail Road yard, posed as a safety consultant and asked how to operate a new type of engine that had just been delivered, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a news release.
		McCollum later was found with stolen keys, including one used to operate the new locomotive, Brown said.
		McCollum has been arrested 20 times for illegally posing as a subway motorman, bus driver or transit token taker.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/84-02242005-455152.html (187 words)

	Queens Tribune
		Queens train fanatic Darius McCollum is heading back to prison for 1½ to 3 years, after he pleaded guilty to trying to steal an M-7 locomotive from the Long Island Railroad Yards on Liberty Avenue last June.
		McCollum was released from prison in April 2002, after serving a stint for posing as a transit worker and breaking into a subway control room.
		At age 15 in 1981, McCollum was arrested for the first time-after a motorman who was “his friend” allowed him to take the controls of an E train.
	www.queenstribune.com /copblot/Train-TheftBuffBackToJail.html (230 words)

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