If God protects fools, drunks, and children, this fellow was close to being three for three:
A drunken man who fell under a train after being jolted out of a nap at a railway station emerged unscathed from beneath the locomotive.The 19-year-old had fallen asleep on the station platform in Cologne but was startled by the incoming train. Losing his balance, he fell in front of the locomotive, police said.
"According to the man he fell exactly between the two tracks and just felt a light knock on the head," Cologne police said in a statement.
The shocked train driver pulled the emergency brakes only to see the man emerge unaided from under the engine. He was taken to hospital for observation.
The drunk was taken to the hospital too.
I had a cousin who lost a leg getting run over by a train. Those kinds of accidents just don't seem to happen much anymore. It's like we lost a little bit of classic Americana. I blame Eisenhower and his highway system.
Posted by floridacracker at April 16, 2007 04:37 PMA boarder at my school known as "Jungle Jim" was going home for the holidays on the Midlander, a train that runs from Rockhampton to Western Queensland- as it is a long trip to Emerald, he decided to pass the time by inhaling a bottle of Bundaberg rum. When the inevitable time came, he decided it'd be a wheeze to have a piss off the back of the train, where he overbalanced due to wearing a wobbly boot and pitched headfirst onto the ties, where he had a little nap. He woke to find axle grease dribbling on his dial, said lubricant coming from one of several hundred coal trucks passing overhead as a triple-locomotive coal train went over the top of him. Not a mark on the sod except for the grease and dust, as he'd landed right between the tracks and stayed there. Even if another passenger train had come through, at least someone might have pooped on him.
Posted by: Habib at April 17, 2007 10:56 PM