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27vet

26th June 2010 22:49

Lucky man

Police: Auburn man falls from train, lands on face

Quote:

Auburn, NY -- An Auburn man fell from between two box cars of a slow-moving train Friday afternoon, police said.
Auburn police report that witnesses saw a man clinging to a ladder between cars of a Finger Lakes Railway train around 12:30 p.m. The man lost his grip, witnesses said, and fell face first onto the east side of the tracks behind 134 State St...

Sounds dang lucky to me!

48111

27th June 2010 05:48

Lucky indeed.

48111

wyvern

27th June 2010 07:49

Hitching a ride on a freight used to be perfectly normal among poor people in the States, though they wreren't supposed to.

I've never quite worked out what "riding the rods" means.

It figures in a famous blues:

"Dear Sue your Easy Rider struck this burg today
On a south bound rattler side door Pullman car
Seen him there an' he was on the hog."

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Postscript: I've just found this : Riding The Rails

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