Drunk man survives being run over by two trains

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu May 21, 2009 8:44 AM EDT

Article Source: dailystar.co.uk

odd-news, germany, drunk, trains, sascha-hager, soemmerda

BOOZER Sascha Hager has vowed to get his life back on track after he survived being run over by two trains.

Sascha, 23, passed out on tracks near Soemmerda station, Germany, after a bender but was so drunk he sank into the sleepers allowing trains to pass right over him.

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Killfile

Nothing like being run over by a train or two to get your life back on track....

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13 votes

#1 - Thu May 21, 2009 8:46 AM EDT

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Davy-755715

But, sometimes he still ties one on...

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4 votes

#1.1 - Thu May 21, 2009 11:10 AM EDT

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ftmackinc

man I've done some dumb sheet drinking in my time but dang...

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2 votes

#1.2 - Thu May 21, 2009 9:09 PM EDT

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dkaz

This reminds me of a song from 1967. Some of you youngsters might remember it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiVwY7RfyM0&feature=related

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1 vote

#1.3 - Fri May 22, 2009 4:36 PM EDT

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Sandie Seward

"Nothing like being run over by a train or two to get your life back on track...."

Absolutely!!!!!!!

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2 votes

#2 - Thu May 21, 2009 9:06 AM EDT

{"commentId":7205267,"authorDomain":"donstahoe"}

I am American

Hey who got blood in my alcohol?

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3 votes

#3 - Thu May 21, 2009 9:45 AM EDT

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Killfile

I knew a guy in college who said that a lot. Incidentally, that's the same guy who fell off Beta Bridge (at UVA) and onto the train tracks. He didn't get run over by a train but I haven't heard from him in years.....

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3 votes

#3.1 - Thu May 21, 2009 10:21 AM EDT

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upswing

What's the big deal?

Aren't ALL train tracks set on sleeper rails..? :-)

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1 vote

#4 - Thu May 21, 2009 10:54 AM EDT

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Scarlet Termite

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a sleeper rail?

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1 vote

#5 - Thu May 21, 2009 1:22 PM EDT

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upswing

Scarlet Termite:

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a sleeper rail?

You are "ignorant" only of my ability to inadvertently coin phrases... :-)

The sleepers are the wooden (or concrete) support slats that go crosswise under the rails ...

Having been raised and having lived in two "English"-speaking countries, (The UK and the US -- Two countries divided by a common language, as GB Shaw describes them) I sometimes find myself pathetically at a loss for the appropriate term for things...

Apologies for the confusion.

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1 vote

#5.1 - Thu May 21, 2009 3:33 PM EDT

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CL1

Thanks for asking, Scarlet, and thanks for explaining, upswing. Now your #4 makes sense to me; cute reply.

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#5.2 - Thu May 21, 2009 5:19 PM EDT

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Davy-755715

In the US we know 'em as ties. For a long time pressure treated lumber, we're now using some concrete and recycled plastic. There's about 3000 per mile.

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1 vote

#5.3 - Thu May 21, 2009 6:31 PM EDT

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CL1

Now we know where to get a good deal on a new countertop!

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#5.4 - Thu May 21, 2009 6:37 PM EDT

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Scarlet Termite

Thanks, upswing!

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#5.5 - Thu May 21, 2009 8:19 PM EDT

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Deaun

As the wife of a "railroader", I am privy to an extrodinary number of railroad-specific technical terms...you stumped me as well! Thank you for taking the time and trouble to explain.

BTW, be careful of jumping to conclusions if you ever hear someone mention "knocking the balls off of a 1000 lb. frog", because that IS railroad lingo.

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1 vote

#5.6 - Fri May 22, 2009 7:31 PM EDT

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Tom Adams

I'll drink to that!

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2 votes

#6 - Thu May 21, 2009 2:14 PM EDT

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2TailPuppy

If he was sober he could have been killed.

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2 votes

#7 - Thu May 21, 2009 3:56 PM EDT

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upswing

2TailPuppy:

If he was sober he could have been killed.

If he did that while he were sober, he'd DESERVE to get killed ... ;-)

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2 votes

#7.1 - Thu May 21, 2009 4:05 PM EDT

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Ms Jones-1118508

Yeah! So it was a good thing he was drunk!

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#7.2 - Thu May 21, 2009 4:06 PM EDT

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upswing

Ms Jones:

Yeah! So it was a good thing he was drunk!

:-)

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1 vote

#7.3 - Thu May 21, 2009 4:10 PM EDT

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kenyon-1

Yeah , I could have died many times too.

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1 vote

#7.4 - Fri May 22, 2009 12:53 AM EDT

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madman-1118524

yeah. i hate when that happens.

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3 votes

#8 - Thu May 21, 2009 4:10 PM EDT

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Ken from Mundelein

Once a moron always a moron.

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#9 - Thu May 21, 2009 4:23 PM EDT

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JECD

My grandmother used to say....The Lord looks after Drunks and Fools",must be something to that!

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1 vote

#10 - Thu May 21, 2009 4:24 PM EDT

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2TailPuppy

The Lord looks after Drunks and Fools",must be something to that!

So that's what he's been doing all these years.

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1 vote

#10.1 - Thu May 21, 2009 4:26 PM EDT

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CL1

I don't know, Killfile, how reliable is this source? Did you see one of their other stories to the left of this one - Naked woman on a horse directing traffic - umm, sure. What's next - Aliens open new fast food, and the food is ' out of this world ' . I believe it, do you?!

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1 vote

#10.2 - Thu May 21, 2009 5:36 PM EDT

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CL1

2Tail & JECD --- Pretty obvious....look what he created!

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#10.3 - Thu May 21, 2009 5:37 PM EDT

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JECD

It's why I drink!

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#10.4 - Thu May 21, 2009 6:19 PM EDT

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MARY-1118768

"And alcoholism saves another life!!"

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6 votes

#11 - Thu May 21, 2009 5:17 PM EDT

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HasseemDeleted

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Ernwool

Put Hasssseeeem on top of the cross ties. Take a quick trip under a fast train and see if your allahu akbar saves your stupid backsides.

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#13 - Thu May 21, 2009 8:19 PM EDT

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tyler

11 deleted, gimmick, derail. Ha, derail.

Hasseem, you're suspended for a day for violating #4 of the Code of Honor. That had nothing to do with the topic.

Ernwool, control yourself and mind #1 of the Code of Honor. Turn the e-cheek.

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2 votes

#13.1 - Fri May 22, 2009 5:55 PM EDT

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Peter CombsDeleted

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faust-132915

I can only wonder how many times this has happened to me and I just didn't know...

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1 vote

#15 - Fri May 22, 2009 12:21 AM EDT

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Chris Russo

There is an old saying "God watches over Babies and Drunks."

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#16 - Fri May 22, 2009 5:51 AM EDT

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Chris Russo

There is an old saying "God watches over Babies and Drunks."

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#17 - Fri May 22, 2009 5:55 AM EDT

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DSMc2gal

OH, MAN! I just can't believe that none of you picked up on this!

This guy was run over by two different trains, and he says that he is now going to get his life "back on track"?! Was this a deliberate, or unfortunate choice of phrase? If he does intend to get his life "back on track", then I'd advise him to make absolutely certain that it is back onto an abandoned and unused track!

Then again, maybe he should avoid the Absolute part of my suggestion. That stuff is fairly expensive. He should stick to the "store brand! (for a certainty!)

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3 votes

#18 - Fri May 22, 2009 7:30 AM EDT

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Porchsitterr

I think I'll have a drink and sleep on this one.

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2 votes

#19 - Fri May 22, 2009 9:39 AM EDT

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ma-deuce

Not-so-similar experience put me back on track. Try twelve shots of tequila the night before a trans-atlantic flight and see if you remember it. I woke up with my face plastered to the shirt of the guy next to me...plastered with drool. He didn't appreciate that very much... >:) No more tequila for me!

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1 vote

#20 - Fri May 22, 2009 9:56 AM EDT

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DSMc2gal

Well, at least it was only saliva, ma-deuce. Imagine how you'd have felt if your face had been plastered to the guy's shirt with an alcoholic slurry of your stomach's semi-digested contents!

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1 vote

#20.1 - Fri May 22, 2009 10:41 AM EDT

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ruthlessmoose

This headline is slightly misleading. I thought he had actually been RUN over by a train, like impacted. Not PASSED over by trains. Yes, he could have died but still. Also, I'm never surprised or amazed when drunks fall asleep in weird or dangerous places, what a dork. lol

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2 votes

#21 - Fri May 22, 2009 10:05 AM EDT

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DSMc2gal

I would agree to his being a dork for having gotten so completely drunk in the first place. However, moose, once a person has become so totally sodden with drink, I don't feel that anything that they do or engage in can really be held against their sober self. That is not to say that they are to be held inviolate as far as repercussions and consequences for their actions when drunk. Just that assigning a negative social label, i.e., dork & etc., is realistic. Many is the person who have sat dumbstruck, embarrassed, and mortified when their previous night's goings-ons were related to them in vivid oratory.

However, if a person is told of their drunken idiotic doings (after they've sobered up) and they seem to take pride in what they had done, THEN it is time (and most appropriately so) to assign any number of negative labels!

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2 votes

#21.1 - Fri May 22, 2009 11:02 AM EDT

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ruthlessmoose

Well the responsibility is still there in that he decided to get that drunk on purpose, in my opinion. But that's the beauty of america. you wanna get gangsta-faced stupid ? Go right ahead, I'll be right there laughing. lol

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1 vote

#21.2 - Fri May 22, 2009 4:30 PM EDT

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ruthlessmoose

Well, the responsibility is still there in that he got drunk on purpose and then went and acted a fool. having said that... the beauty of this country... if you wanna go out and get gangsta-faced stupid drunk and go have some fun? by all means. I'll be right along laughing the whole time. lol

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1 vote

#21.3 - Fri May 22, 2009 4:37 PM EDT

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ruthlessmoose

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1 vote

#21.4 - Fri May 22, 2009 4:38 PM EDT

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DSMc2gal

AMEN to that, moose! I had addressed that very concept in the body of my #20.1 comment. As I had said, "That is not to say that they are to be held inviolate as far as repercussions and consequences for their actions when drunk". That is, of course, because they had made a sober decision to inebriate themselves to the nth degree! Seeking such levels of intoxication is rarely a good idea!

I will be there, at your elbow, jostling with you for the best view of their spectacle!

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2 votes

#21.5 - Fri May 22, 2009 5:23 PM EDT

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ruthlessmoose

as long as one of us remembers a camera! lol

Also, sorry about the repeater comments. My internet at work was messing up fri and kept not showing the comment I posted.

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1 vote

#21.6 - Tue May 26, 2009 10:12 AM EDT

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DSMc2gal

I figured that, moose. I sent the same E-mail to a friend FIFTEEN TIMES without reralizing that it had been ent at all!

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2 votes

#21.7 - Tue May 26, 2009 11:49 PM EDT

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ruthlessmoose

wow... you got me beat then. lol

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1 vote

#21.8 - Wed May 27, 2009 8:13 AM EDT

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Porchsitterr

What happened? Did I have a good time?

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#22 - Fri May 22, 2009 1:25 PM EDT

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Bernard Williams

Very Funny Comments! Haseem, you need Jesus, I thought that the meaning of Islam was peace so how can you wish death on someone!

Jesus, its what you need! And come up with another slogan you said the same thing like 8 times, makes you look stupid!

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#23 - Fri May 22, 2009 3:31 PM EDT

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Gina B-1120672

I suggest he go to the "Hokey Pokey Institute", it's a good place to get yourself turned around ;)

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#24 - Fri May 22, 2009 3:35 PM EDT

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DSMc2gal

Gina, What if the Hokey Pokey IS what "it's all about"?

That's kind of a scary thought, isn't it?

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1 vote

#24.1 - Fri May 22, 2009 6:07 PM EDT

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Lori G.-1121178

What was he drinking??

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#25 - Fri May 22, 2009 10:37 PM EDT

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DSMc2gal

I believe that he was drinking two hundred proof, double Distilled, pure blind luck!

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1 vote

#26 - Sat May 23, 2009 6:17 AM EDT

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