BERLIN (Reuters) – A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.
The 22-year-old journalism student 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, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said.
"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 -- unharmed except for cuts and bruises -- now faces charges of dangerous interference in rail transport, insulting the train staff, and may face sizeable a compensation claim for the delays he caused, police said.
"He was full of remorse when I talked to him," the spokesman said. "And he advised others not to try the same thing."
(Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Louise Ireland)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Wow, how em-bare-ass-ing. I wonder if the people late to work were able to give their bosses the real explanation of why they were late, while keeping a straight face.
ReplyDeleteclever clever, emmanuel!
ReplyDeleteThat will teach him a lesson to always remember.... ;)
ReplyDeletelol Wow that must of sucked. I wonder if he'll ever want to show his face in that train station again. My guess would probably be no. I know I wouldn't.
ReplyDeleteHa! That is funny but it probably wasn't so funny for him. That must have been scary since he could have gotten caught in the wheels. He didn't get hurt but learned a lesson. Plus, why would someone moon a train in the first place and close enough to were you would get caught on to it? That seems odd.
ReplyDelete