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Like Father, Like Son

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060710/od_nm/malaysia_train_dc;_ylt=AoSZjpBnWwxCHrNDWQXflAWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A train has run down and killed a man at just the spot where his father met the same fate eight months previously, a Malaysian newspaper said on Saturday.

The 34-year-old man, V. Marathai, was cut in half when a moving train hit him early Friday in the northern Malaysian town of Ipoh, the Star reported.

His father, N. Veerapan, 64, died at the same spot last November when he crawled under a train he thought was stationary.

"My father used that track as a shortcut to his friend's house," the paper quoted V. Chandran, a brother of the bachelor Marathai, as saying.

Submitted on 07/10/2006

Submitted by: Wayne Wallace
Reference: Malaysia paper, July 8/2006

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James said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
Here's the "cut n' pasted" article in case the link submitted earlier goes dead. I am still hoping for a good ORIGINAL write-up!


Fitzroy said:
Definitely Keep: For Darwin's Eyes
Yeah, Yahoo! News doesn't maintain static URLs for most old stories. I'm surprised this one was still in place. At least now what little media info already submitted is preserved here.


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