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Stockholm train crashed into apartments 'by cleaner'
BBC News ^ | 1/16/13 | BBC

Posted on 01/16/2013 12:47:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge

A cleaning woman stole an empty commuter train in a suburb of Stockholm and crashed it into a house, injuring herself, Swedish officials say.

The four-carriage train was driven out of the depot for about a mile until it jumped the tracks, becoming wedged into a three-storey building.

Police arrested a woman, who was flown to a Stockholm hospital with serious injuries. Nobody else was hurt.

A railway official confirmed the woman in custody was an employee.

"We have only heard good things about her," Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for train operator Arriva, was quoted as saying by AP news agency.

"We're investigating how this could happen."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: apartments; cleaner; crashed; stockholm; trains
stricter train controls in order, perhaps?

Footage shows the train wedged in the building, as Rebecca Donovan reports
1 posted on 01/16/2013 12:47:52 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Thinking out of the box here and could be completely, utterly wrong, but my inclination is that the “cleaning lady” is a Muslim....


2 posted on 01/16/2013 12:50:35 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: NormsRevenge

3 posted on 01/16/2013 12:51:59 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Gaffer

Either that or a drunk Swede. There are a few of those.


4 posted on 01/16/2013 12:53:10 PM PST by Parmenio
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To: NormsRevenge

If Obama hears about this, he may issue an executive order to ban commuter trains.


5 posted on 01/16/2013 1:01:55 PM PST by Mark17 (California, where English is a foreign language)
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To: NormsRevenge

Later that evening, the wife was overheard shouting at her husband, “I told you we shouldn’t put railroad tracks in our driveway!”


6 posted on 01/16/2013 1:04:36 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Parmenio

Maybe....but my money’s on “Muslim”....


7 posted on 01/16/2013 1:06:07 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

I think I read that she was only 21. She could have just had an “I’ve always wanted to drive one of these” moment. Think about the teenage boy, works in the stockroom... he gets a chance to get into the warehouse, and there is a forklift sitting there, no one around... wants to try it out. Could just be a bad decision due to immaturity and curiousity.


8 posted on 01/16/2013 1:06:42 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: NormsRevenge

A new “Stockholm Syndrom.”


9 posted on 01/16/2013 1:08:30 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: NormsRevenge

Ja!


10 posted on 01/16/2013 1:09:31 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: NEMDF

There was a case of a young black kid, in New York, whose dream was to be subway operator. He managed to get a transit uniform and drive the subway unnoticed.

He did a great job, stopping at every stop and ensuring everybody got off and on the train.

He got away with doing it for at least half a day, or so.


11 posted on 01/16/2013 1:10:21 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: NEMDF

Well, maybe...but again, experience tells me that if the name, description and ethnicity/race/religion isn’t mentioned, it’s not your traditional ‘citizen’....

Otherwise, it would have been Olga this or Helga that or Gertruude whatever....


12 posted on 01/16/2013 1:10:29 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: NEMDF

That’s very possible. But fact that they’re saying so little about her (and she wasn’t a child or even a teenager) isn’t a good sign.


13 posted on 01/16/2013 1:14:41 PM PST by livius
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To: NormsRevenge

Ban cleaning women.


14 posted on 01/16/2013 1:16:05 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (I'm going Galt)
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To: NormsRevenge

"damn hippies!"

15 posted on 01/16/2013 1:18:38 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: NormsRevenge

Maddie Halfbright?


16 posted on 01/16/2013 1:27:46 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: NEMDF

...“I’ve always wanted to drive one of these” moment.

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More of a boy thing, I am thinking. Most of us women don’t get such urges. Although, I have to admit that one of my fantasies is to drive in a demolition derby.


17 posted on 01/16/2013 1:47:22 PM PST by Bigg Red (Sorry, Mr. Franklin, I guess we couldn't keep it.)
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To: Bigg Red

I have always wanted to drive a vehicle on railroad tracks ever since I saw the Flim Flam Man with George C. Scott!


18 posted on 01/16/2013 10:07:10 PM PST by Amberdawn
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