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Originally Posted by Gandalf

Anyone else see this news item
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German passenger train was brought to a shuddering halt when a football flew from a nearby pitch and hit a brake pipe, triggering an automatic braking system, police said on Tuesday.


"The ball hit the brake pipe between the locomotive and the first carriage and undid it, leading to a loss of pressure," said a police spokesman in the western city of Muenster. "This caused the train to brake automatically."


A local youth team were playing football at the time on a pitch near the railway line in Emsdetten, near Muenster. No one has claimed the shot that stopped the train, the spokesman said.

The driver managed to re-attach the pipe and the train was delayed by only eight minutes, he added

John

This story sounds rather comical but I wouldnt think taht anyone on the train would have thought so.