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Old 22nd February 2008, 22:06
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Train 'chicken' stunt man jailed
Train 'chicken' stunt man jailed

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PA - A man who played 'chicken' with an oncoming train on a level crossing and avoided a collision by inches has been sentenced to six months in jail
See BBC NEWS http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20...6323e80_2.html


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Old 23rd February 2008, 09:22
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Not long enough,

Its time a sentence was handed out as a real deterent to these senseless imbisiles (probabaly spelt wrong but you get the idea).

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He got eggsactly what he deserves.
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Pity the judge didn't give him an eggstraordinary sentence as an eggsample to others
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He got eggsactly what he deserves.
I disagree. He didn't get eggsactly what he deserved. The sentence was a yolk.
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He's lucky that he got jail, especially when he could've hended up dead.
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He's lucky that he got jail, especially when he could've hended up dead.
That would have been the "coup de grace"
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