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Unfortuately, this is a train mishap, but it wasn't exactly accidental. It resulted from an overactive braggadocio gene, and in possible connection to another's "put your money where your mouth is" gene. One man brags, the other says show me, the first man follows through and in doing so, removes himself from the gene pool thus saving humankind from incidents of a similar nature in the future.

A work crew goes to a construction site located near train tracks, and arrive about 15 minutes before they were supposed to start work. While waiting, one of the men said when he was a kid, he used to jump on a train and ride for 15 or 20 yards--just for fun. Within minutes a train is spotted coming towards them. He decided to show his co-workers how he used to do it, and proceeded to hop onto the southbound train. Unbeknownst to him, a northbound train coming from the opposite direction. Dispite the attempts of the others shouting at him to stop, the noise from the two trains was too much to make themselves heard. As soon as the hopper looked up, the train hit him.

The county coroner said, “It was quick and and it was over."

This can be verifed through the Bowling Green Daily News, 03/21/2002

http://www.bgdailynews.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200203/21+railroadtragedy20020321_news.html+20020321

Submitted on 02/13/2003

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: http://www.bgdailynews.com/cgi

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Jack said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Not a repeat of a former story (and I recall that one also), but while it's starting to get a bit too common, I'll still give this a Darwin.


Teela said:
Neutral: Darwin Award


Bert said:
Definitely Toss: Repeat


Gregory said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I do not recall this one from when it happened. A bit more original than the usual train accident.


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