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Drunk Mexican sleeps as train runs over him ("I counted six beers, but there may have been more.")
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| April 28, 2004
Posted on 04/27/2004 8:00:43 AM PDT by dead
A drunk Mexican man who fell asleep on railroad tracks and was run over by a train slept through the entire episode and escaped unharmed, local officials said.
Jorge Lozano Lopez, a 32-year-old electrician, did not regain consciousness until well after paramedics arrived on the scene late one recent night.
"He must have been very drunk to have slept through all that," said Jose Alfaro de la Rosa, a health official in the northern town of San Nicolas de los Garza. "It's a miracle he wasn't hurt."
The train's driver spotted Lozano Lopez on the tracks and frantically blew the whistle but was unable to rouse him or stop the train in time. The undercarriage passed within just a few centimetres of his body but did not touch him.
"I counted only six beers," a bewildered Lozano Lopez told local newspaper El Norte. "But who knows how many more there might have been. I don't remember."
Reuters
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: darwinwannabe
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To: dead
For the life of me, I can't figure out what is so appealing about sleeping on railroad tracks. Am I missing the boat here? Is there some magical portal to the land of nod that lies between the rails? I'm sorry, but cold steel, creosote-soaked wood, and rocks ain't my idea of a comfortable rack.
I can just picture this scene in my head:
Mexican: Hombres, I'm dead tired. Think I'll head down to the tracks and catch a few "Z's".
Hombres: Adios, Juan! We'll have the engineer wake you when he comes by.
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posted on
04/27/2004 11:08:49 AM PDT
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Ranxerox
To: dead
Was this guy at Talladega last Sunday ?
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posted on
04/27/2004 11:11:53 AM PDT
by
BSunday
(I'm not the bad guy, kid)
To: dead
The undercarriage passed within just a few centimetres of his body but did not touch him.He would have been better off in the US, the train would have missed him by inches.
XX XX XX XX XX XX or maybe XX XX XX XX
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posted on
04/27/2004 11:12:30 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Ranxerox
I guess some other sleepy drunks already grabbed the bed of nails and the couch of broken glass.
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posted on
04/27/2004 11:27:44 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
...and the couch of broken glass.LOL - that's a keeper.
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posted on
04/27/2004 11:43:01 AM PDT
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Ranxerox
To: glock rocks
If this had happened in America, they wouldn't call him a Mexican. I made a comment during a conversation once where a person I know from Mexico was highly offended, in fact almost violent, when I corrected someone who had referred to him as Spanish because he was speaking spanish. Seems that no matter how proud he claimed to be to have come from Mexico, he thought I was insulting him to point it out. It was semi bewildering.
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04/27/2004 11:54:23 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(When they asked me what I thought of freedom in America,,, I said I thought it would be a good idea.)
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