We're not sure if we should be scared or skeptical here, folks -- first, the alleged terror cell in Lodi (terror cell! Terror! But the administration's record? Skeptical!) and now, Amtrak and the Richmond-SF BART line have been shut down.

So a man of Middle Eastern descent got on the Amtrak this morning in Sacto, going to Martinez. When he missed his stop, the conductor came by at the Richmond stop to let him know, and found him disoriented, distracted, and chanting in a foreign language. He became angry, identified himself as a Muslim, and said, "The train is going to fall into the sea, the train is going to go away." The conductors did a search of the train and found that he had left four mysterious packages, one by his seat and another one stashed far away from where he was sitting.

The Walnut Creek bomb squad is "assessing its options" with the packages. And Amtrak found that the man had numerous tickets going all the way to So Cal.

So -- scared or skeptical? We're just going to rock back and forth in a liberal-who's-been-mugged dither of self-doubt now.

Update: There were wires in one of the packages! It was just the man's computer, though. The other packages were just his personal stuff. Richmond says they worry about this stuff because they have an oil refinery in the area. The FBI is questioning the man, and he's being held for 72 hours for a psych evaluation.

Picture of the Richmond Amtrak station from The Bus Stops Here