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a bridge is not a fence

2008 Reader Submission
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Witzenhausen (Hessen, Germany)

Because she mistook a bridge railing as a garden fence, a young woman in Witzenhausen fell four meters onto railroad tracks, luckily out of service.

According to the police the student girl was found seriously injured, but alive and responsive lying on a disused railway track under the bridge.

Ahe said she was on a night hike with other students. She climbed over the railing of the railway bridge (who she thought was a fence) and fell. Her fellow students confirmed her story.

why jump over a fence when you can't see anything? proof for a missing "why-Gende"

http://www.rhein-main.net/sixcms/detail.php/rmn01.c.5266603.de/v2_rmn_news_article

Submitted on 10/29/2008

Submitted by: Steve
Reference: rhein-main.net 10-29-2008

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Candi said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Ummm...."I can't see over this 'fence'. I want to go over it. I will go over it. I-" Sheesh! STU-PID!!! Thanks, Steve!


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Yep, that certainly takes a severe lack of brains to climb over something you're not sure about in the middle of the night. Thanks, Steve.


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