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Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
Mon May 28, 2012, 05:10 PM May 2012

Drunken man sleeps through being run over by 8000-ton freight train and walks away without a scratch

still holding a beer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150583/Drunken-man-sleeps-run-8-000-ton-freight-train--walks-away-scratch-holding-BEER.html

Call it the luck of the drunk.

An inebriated man from Alberta, Canada, who was run over by 26 train cars while lying passed out on the tracks walked away unscathed.

(snip)

Railway workers made several attempts to rouse the man and at first thought he was dead, but when one of the staff grabbed him by the arm, the man opened his eyes, the Toronto Star has reported.

‘The guy seemed to wake up and he got up, grabbed his beer and just walked away,’ Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sargent Dave Dubnyk told the National Post.
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Drunken man sleeps through being run over by 8000-ton freight train and walks away without a scratch (Original Post) Electric Monk May 2012 OP
They say that god takes care of little children and drunks. Curmudgeoness May 2012 #1
Hancock...? nt rrneck May 2012 #2
Eh...was that beer a Molson's? nt MADem May 2012 #3
Even if it's crap beer no sense in letting it go to waste! Initech May 2012 #4

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
1. They say that god takes care of little children and drunks.
Mon May 28, 2012, 05:24 PM
May 2012

In this case, that seems to be true....although I am not sure I would call this guy Lucky, he has some real problems.

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