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October 21st, 2009 at 12:01 am

Man moons railway staffers and then gets dragged by train – Ironic!

Talk about Ironic – a German man who was mooning railway staff in a departing train got his pants caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and then onto the tracks.

The 22 year old, a journalism student, had shoved his backside against the window of a low slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for traveling without a ticket.

“It’s a miracle he wasn’t badly hurt,” the spokesman said on Monday. “This sort of thing can end up killing you.”

Instead, dangling by his trousers, the man got pulled along for about 200 meters, all the while managing to keep his legs away from the wheels of the train.

The ordeal ended when a passenger pulled the emergency brake. Rescues services were called in, causing rail services between Bremen and Hamburg to be suspended for over an hour, delaying 23 trains.

The man faces charges of dangerous interference in rail transport, insulting train staff and he could face a sizable compensation claim for the delays that he caused.

It looks like Karma gave him a swift kick in the seat of his pants …er almost bare behind.






October 2nd, 2008 at 12:01 am

Man who wanted picture gets ‘train rash’

A man who wanted to have his picture taken next to a moving train ended up suffering from what police in Fargo, N.D. are calling “Train Rash”. Lucky for him that’s the only injuries he sustained.

The 34 year old man and two friends were in Fargo for a conference. At some point they bypassed a security gate at a train crossing and stood near the rails so that he could have his picture taken as the train passed by.

Unfortunately the man stumbled as the train was going by and the train caught his back and ripped his shirt and pants. Naturally alcohol was a factor in this mans poor decision.






June 15th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Chief of police pickpocketed

In an ironic twist the Chief of Police of Oslo, Norway, Anstein Gjengedal, had his wallet pickpocketed a few days before he was set to announce a crackdown on pickpocketers.

The chief was on the Oslo Airport train when a group of people bumped into him. Checking his pockets a few minutes later the police chief realized that his wallet was gone.

Looks like that crackdown is timely!








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