Two Asteroids To Buzz Earth Today!
Unusual Stuff

Don’t Moon The Train, Or Else.

Posted 10/13/2009 4:03 pm by Ron Hogan

german_ice_train.jpg

A 22-year-old journalism student found himself suddenly forced off the train by staff while it was stopped at a station in Lauenbrueck, Germany.  Of course, he shouldn’t have been surprised he got thrown off since he was traveling without a ticket, but that didn’t stop this young man’s righteous indignation.  In order to show his displeasure, he resorted to the classic (and classy) urge to drop his pants and smush his bare behind against the window of the double-decker train, mooning all inside.  Unfortunately, his pants got stuck.

He got dragged, half-naked, by the train for 200 meters (or over 650 feet or the length of two football fields) before someone noticed there was a naked guy dangling by his pants from the side of the train.  Luckily, he was able to keep his legs out from under the wheels of the train and avoided serious injury.  Unfortunately for him, his little stunt delayed 23 trains for over an hour, which now means not only is he going to have a police record for dangerous interference with rail transport, he’s also liable for damages.

Next time he’ll remember to keep his pants up and settle for giving rail staff the classic middle finger.  Or, you know, buy a ticket.

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Share this post, or Subscribe:

Try these Related Entries



More Stuff Worth Checking Out »

Unusual Stuff

US Army To Design New Female Uniforms

Posted 9/08/2010 12:00 pm by Ron Hogan

Ladies, are you tired of marching into a combat zone, laying down a stream of machine-gun fire, and slaying America’s enemies while looking like you’re wearing a camouflage potato sack?  Well, you’re in luck.  While you’ll still be in camouflage, at least your uniform will fit you a little better as the US Army has announced that [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Detroit, America’s Stress Capital

Posted 9/08/2010 11:30 am by Ron Hogan

Motown.  The Motor City.  The D.  Detroit, Michigan, has many names.  Now, it can add another nickname to its impressive list of monikers:  Stressville, USA.  Why does Detroit earn that new name?  Well, according to Portfolio.com and bizjournals, Detroit is the most stressful metropolitan area in the United States.  Detroit:  what we lack in jobs, [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Upset Alert: Fried Beer Loses At Texas State Fair

Posted 9/08/2010 11:00 am by Ron Hogan

It’s a shocking upset.  To me, you’d think there’s nothing more Texas-approved than taking delicious beer and figuring out a way to deep-fry it inside a pretzel, but apparently there’s one thing more Texas, and that’s Frito pie.  At the Big Tex Choice Awards, the fried-food contest held every year at the Texas State Fair, [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Google TV To Go Worldwide In 2011

Posted 9/08/2010 10:30 am by Ron Hogan

Once upon a time, James Brown said, “I’m bad; I’m nationwide.”  Well, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is saying, “Google TV’s bad; it’s worldwide.”  Not bad as in bad, bad as in good.  As for worldwide, well, Google TV is slated for an international roll-out in 2011 with the desire to convert all TV set makers [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Refudiate Tops Online Search Lists

Posted 9/08/2010 10:00 am by Ron Hogan

Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure.  She’s wildly popular, either for the wrong reasons or the right reasons, depending on which side of the political spectrum you’re on and how much you like making fun of people.  Still, she’s captured the public’s attention quite well, as shown by the fact that the word Palin invented, [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

The Doll-Faced Bandit

Posted 9/08/2010 9:30 am by Ron Hogan

In a way, the guy had a great idea.  When an unidentified black man headed into the Chase Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, determined to rob it, he knew he had to hide his identity, so he bought what is probably the creepiest possible crook mask ever made.  He slipped a porcelain doll’s face over his [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Duke Nukem Forever Lives Again!

Posted 9/08/2010 9:00 am by Ron Hogan

It’s one of the most famous examples of vaporware in video game history.  Duke Nukem Forever has been in the works since, literally, 1997.  It’s been announced and pulled multiple times throughout its history, and has changed developers multiple times (3D Realms, Take Two, 3D Realms again, and now Gearbox Software).  People have run through [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

University Of Baltimore Offering Zombie 101 Class

Posted 9/08/2010 8:30 am by Ron Hogan

Ah, zombies.  You’re everywhere these days, and with the excellent zombie comic book The Walking Dead going to AMC, it’s only going to get better (at least for people like me, who’ll watch a bad zombie movie over a good vampire movie any day of the week).  Now, the zombie virus is spreading from popular [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

NFL To Face More Blackouts This Year

Posted 9/08/2010 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

You’d think that, possible lockout aside, things would be good for the NFL right now.  TV ratings have never been higher, league stars are now crossover TV stars and doing hair-care commercials, and the league is even trying to expand overseas with the standard London games and appearances in Toronto.  However, all the news concerning [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Two Asteroids To Buzz Earth Today

Posted 9/08/2010 6:30 am by Ron Hogan

In galactic terms, it’s what you call a pair of near misses.  Today, Wednesday the 8th, 2010, Earth will get buzzed by not one, but two different asteroids, and they’ll be close. They’ll actually come close enough to Earth to pass between the orbit of the Earth and the moon, which is like the interplanetary [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Man Arrested For Telling Kids To Get Off His Lawn With Bullets

Posted 9/07/2010 12:00 pm by Ron Hogan

It was like a scene out of Gran Torino.  When confronting a group of youths on the lawn of his Uniondale, Long Island home, 31-year-old George Grier went out onto his porch with a rifle.  He told the group of youths to get off his lawn.  During the ensuing argument, Grier did what every movie [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

Non-Stick Pans Raise Child Cholesterol

Posted 9/07/2010 11:30 am by Ron Hogan

Sometimes, you get a bit of strange news that actually reinforces a prejudice.  For example, I’ve always preferred the taste of food cooked on a legitimate, cast iron skillet over the taste of food cooked in an aluminum, non-stick frying pan.  Yes, it’ll stick and burn and look like Jesus, and no, I don’t care. [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

What A Crappy Cake

Posted 9/07/2010 11:00 am by Ron Hogan

When you think of good customer service, what are the places you think of as providing the opposite of that?  Obviously, one of the first things out of any reasonable person’s mouth (aside from the DMV) is the post office.  There’s always a line, it’s usually understaffed, it’s going bankrupt, and generally, it’s a huge [...]

Read »
Unusual Stuff

German School Kids Given Celebratory Porno Pens

Posted 9/07/2010 10:30 am by Ron Hogan

At first, the school children returning to their learning tasks at Adolf Reichwein School in the northwestern city of Essen, Germany, were probably bummed out.  Yes, they got their traditional paper cone full of back-to-school candy, but volunteers from the German Communist Party (who were handing out the sugary propaganda) had also inserted pens into [...]

Read »