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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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posted on
04/27/2004 8:00:46 AM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
This story isn't as good as the man who cooked the guy in his tamales.
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:01:53 AM PDT
by
cyborg
To: dead
Words fail me...
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:02:55 AM PDT
by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
(Wolfgang Puck does not belong on Iron Chef America, no matter how funny his accent is.)
To: dead
whoa
To: dead
If this happened in America, he would sue the train company...
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:04:57 AM PDT
by
2banana
(They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
To: dead
Ay Caramba!
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:05:36 AM PDT
by
Bismarck
To: dead; mhking
Just damn..
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:05:44 AM PDT
by
threat matrix
('For my brother, and my country.' Ranger Pat Tillman to Sgt. Joe Bush)
To: dead
Stupid is as stupid does.
Of course, he could have been the victim of Meixcan Candy.
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:06:17 AM PDT
by
Marine Inspector
(Either we will defeat terrorism, or terrorism will defeat us.)
To: dead
I counted only six beers," a bewildered Lozano Lopez told local newspaper El Norte. "But who knows how many more there might have been. Perhaps the six beers was a nightcap...
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:06:27 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading this in English, thank a soldier.)
To: dead
Maybe he got into the 192-proof. That stuff's white lightning with a tax stamp.
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:08:02 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...you never forget your first shot...unless you keep going.)
To: dead
Paging Chuck Darwin!
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:08:16 AM PDT
by
TXBSAFH
(KILL-9 needs no justification.)
To: 2banana
If this had happened in America, they wouldn't call him a Mexican.
A latino, chicano, hispanic or some other cutsie pc handle maybe, but not Mexican.
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:12:07 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Please pray for our patriot armed forces in harm's way - and the families awaiting their safe return)
To: glock rocks
Even though it happened in Mexico, you'd never see this headline in an American paper.
This article was printed in Australia. In the US, the "drunk Mexican" would undoubtedly morph into an "intoxicated man."
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:14:47 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
Beer -- Nature's own anesthetic!
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:21:39 AM PDT
by
blau993
(Labs for love; .357 for Security.)
To: dead
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:22:19 AM PDT
by
Cooter
To: glock rocks
This happened to a guy in my high school class about 25 years ago. Got drunk at a bar and car wouldn't start so he walked the RR tracks home. For some reason, he laid down on the tracks for a nap.
They buried three pieces of him a couple days later.
To: dead
I guess he was getting an early start to Cinque de Mayo!!(SP)?
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posted on
04/27/2004 8:25:11 AM PDT
by
rangerofrage
(Death to all terrorists!)
To: 2banana
If this happened in America.....
If this happened in America, he would likely be dead because we all know that Americans are much fatter than Mexicans and the train would not have cleared him.
To: mhking
This might need a one-time reappearance of "Hold muh beer..."
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posted on
04/27/2004 9:06:55 AM PDT
by
steveegg
(Radical Islam has more in common with Islamic populations than the mainstream media has with America)
To: glock rocks
If this had happened in AmericaThere was a case almost exactly like this in Indiana maybe eight or ten years back. Man staggered out of the local Adult Beverage Emporium, looked for a convenient place to take a nap, and nestled down between the rails. Along came a train and, naturally, there was no way to stop in time. The engineer, expecting mincemeat, came running back as soon as he could. The fellow was still sound asleep.
Made us Hoosiers proud.
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posted on
04/27/2004 9:37:29 AM PDT
by
sphinx
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