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Pick on Someone Your Own Size

An unnamed 45-year-old man from Wadena, Minn., was visiting his cousin in Trevor, Wisc. Sheriff deputies there say he went out drinking and ended up “so drunk he didn't know up from down.” That may or may not have been a problem, but standing on the town's railroad track certainly was, especially since a Wisconsin Central Ltd. train going 50 mph was bearing down on him. The man “gave the train an obscene gesture,” the report from the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department said. “He apparently was mad because the engineer was repeatedly blowing the train's horn.” Amazingly, the man suffered only a cut on his back when he was hit by the train. (AP) ...He has been charged with violating Darwin's Law.


Publication Date: 19 July 2000

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