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Oct. 12 2009 - 12:40 pm | 551 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Asstastrophe for angry mooner dragged 600 feet by train

He was drunk. He was angry. And the ticket-taker had just thrown him off the train. So how did this young man on his way to Bremen choose to voice his displeasure? By mooning the railroad employee, of course. That’s when things went wrong:

For reasons unknown, the 22-year-old student from the region of Oschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt, got stuck to the train while mooning the rail employee. He then fell between the train and the platform and was dragged along before quick-thinking passengers pulled the emergency brake…

He and his 23-year-old friend were travelling on a Metronom train from Hamburg to Bremen when the train inspector caught them smoking and travelling without tickets.

The female train attendant forced them to put out their cigarettes out and gave them the choice to buy tickets or get off the train at Lauenbrück train station. Several witnesses confirmed that the men got off the train.

In an apparent protest against the train staff, the 22-year-old pulled down his pants and pressed his bare buttocks against the window of the departing train.

[H]e was dragged along, fell between the train and the platform and wound up 150 metres past the platform.

Miraculously, the idiot wasn’t killed. He was admitted to the hospital with “severe grazes, bruises and a blood alcohol level of .209 percent.” He is expected to be charged with “dangerous interference with rail traffic.”

Butt-flashing boozer dragged 200 metres while stuck to train | The Local.


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