Man falls from moving train in Siberia at -40C and lives

Rhys Essien · 21-01-2013 12:28PM #1

He leaned on the door at the back of the train while having a smoke and the door swung open causing him to fall on the tracks.

He then ran 7km at night after the train while only wearing a tshirt and slippers.

Luckily for him the next station was only 7km away.

They said if the cold wouldnt kill him it would be a pack of wolves.

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20130118/178871740.html

cantdecide · 21-01-2013 12:41PM

...Police launched an inquiry into the train conductor who left the door unlocked...

One dead after rail accident. The victim lives but the train conductor disappears.

HandsomeJonny · 21-01-2013 12:46PM

I love Russia. But if you go outside in January or February without wearing bear skin and a balaclava death is nearly guaranteed

Unless you run really fast.

YFlyer · 21-01-2013 12:51PM

In Soviet Russia cold catches you.

Sauve · 21-01-2013 12:55PM

What a ninja.

Ghandee · 21-01-2013 12:58PM

Freezing cold story bro.

Rhys Essien · 21-01-2013 01:00PM

His name Chucki Norriski.

SEPT 23 1989 · 21-01-2013 01:25PM

I bet there was strong vodka involved somewhere along the line

Lando Griffin · 21-01-2013 01:27PM

Now everyone in Russia will be expected to finish their train journey by running 7 km in -40c with nothing on but a pair of slippers and a tee shirt while puffing on a fag.

Franticfrank · 21-01-2013 01:43PM

He was damn lucky he was just 7km from the station. Otherwise he wouldn't have lasted long.

Pherekydes · 21-01-2013 01:52PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I bet there was strong vodka involved somewhere along the line

Do they really leave bottles of vodka on every few km of railway line in Russia?

123balltv · 21-01-2013 02:15PM

The Russians are grand with cold weather
remember the sopranos had a Russian running through pine barrens

im invisible · 21-01-2013 02:27PM

extraneous use of C in thread title

/nerd

Calibos · 21-01-2013 03:45PM

It happened in the Amur region. If it wasn't the cold or the wolves it might have been a Siberian Tiger!! (Recently renamed as the Amur Tiger because Amur is the only place in Siberia that there are any left)

Bad Santa · 21-01-2013 03:59PM

Rhys Essien wrote: »

He then ran 7km at night after the train while only wearing a tshirt and slippers.

Luckily for him the next station was only 7km away.

What a coincidence.

Lollipops23 · 21-01-2013 04:06PM

Calibos wrote: »

It happened in the Amur region. If it wasn't the cold or the wolves it might have been a Siberian Tiger!! (Recently renamed as the Amur Tiger because Amur is the only place in Siberia that there are any left)

They very rarely attack humans (much less than the Bengal Tiger).

But yeah, that guy had a seriously lucky escape- my ex did the Trans Siberian Train and said what a desolate and unforgiving landscape it is.

I'd say it sure is purdy to look at though...

Ush1 · 21-01-2013 04:09PM

It's bears that scare me, they just start eating you while you're still screaming.

Mr. Loverman · 21-01-2013 04:13PM

I did that train journey two weeks ago. (Beijing to Moscow).

The cold is insane.

Here's a picture from outside my room on the train:

http://imgur.com/LTftoZL

****ing cold.

Sofaspud · 21-01-2013 04:25PM

Bet he was rushin' to catch that train.

gobnaitolunacy · 21-01-2013 04:43PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Do they really leave bottles of vodka on every few km of railway line in Russia?

Vodka isn't yellow, train drivers don't have toilets in the cab.

ScumLord · 21-01-2013 04:53PM

Bad Santa wrote: »

What a coincidence.

If the station was 6klm away he would have run right past it.

Ush1 wrote: »

It's bears that scare me, they just start eating you while you're still screaming.

So do wolves, wolves are scary as feck! Bears only have one mouth, if your getting attacked by one wolf your getting attacked by several, all biting you to pieces at the same time.

Calibos · 21-01-2013 05:18PM

Actually now that being eaten alive is mentioned, maybe the Amur Tiger would actually be the preference. Big Cats have the good manners to grab you by the throat and asphyxiate you before they start eating you unlike bears and wolves.

Horrendous injuries from big cats like Mountain lions and Jaguars in the Americas or Leopards in Africa and Asia is due to the fact that they aren't quite big enough to take down a human without a struggle first. Once they've softened you up then they can asphyxiate you before eating you.

Tigers?? One whallop with a paw to stun you and straight for the throat. No painful striping of flesh be it in the process of softening you up in the case of the smaller big cats or eating you alive in the case of wolves and bears.

Jaysus though. Everyones worst nightmare...being eaten alive.....[shudders] !!

marcsignal · 21-01-2013 05:31PM

Rhys Essien wrote: »

He then ran 7km at night after the train while only wearing a tshirt and slippers.

must have been cold around the old Town Halls

1ZRed · 21-01-2013 05:44PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Do they really leave bottles of vodka on every few km of railway line in Russia?

Nah, the wolves do as bait :P

biko · 21-01-2013 05:52PM

Russians are fecking hard-ass people. I'd be frozen and/or eaten after 300 yards.

Wibbs · 21-01-2013 06:04PM

biko wrote: »

Russians are fecking hard-ass people.

That they are. I remember when the Chernobyl reactor blew up and they needed volunteers to dig out the area around the reactor to make it safe and the queues to sign up went around the block and this was essentially a death sentence and a horrible death with it. Their actions saved the rest of the world from a much worse outcome. Hard as nails. I suppose the environment has much to do with it. Many areas are boiling in summer and beyond freezing in winter, living in that for countless generations is bound to rub off. It's only above freezing today and I'm near having heart failure.

Where To · 21-01-2013 06:11PM

He'll probably get a fine for disembarking between stations.

Wibbs · 21-01-2013 06:11PM

Wolves worldwide aren't very dangerous. Attacks are very rare, though there have been a few in recent years in Russia and Siberia. One nightclub bouncer was attacked and killed after he locked up the place one night and a russian bouncer aint gonna be a weedy bloke. He might have been able to fend off one, but as ScumLord says they attack in numbers and in a well practiced way. That's their thing and like humans they're one of the few predators that routinely take down prey much bigger than themselves. Even polar bears avoid them.

ScumLord · 21-01-2013 06:17PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Hard as nails. I suppose the environment has much to do with it.

It's Communism, makes you strong. We should all be communist for a year, knock the soft out of this generation of Celtic pandas.

Ush1 · 21-01-2013 06:20PM

Wolves wouldn't normally prey on people though and could be half scared, a bear is just gonna jack you straight away. One swipe of a paw and your face is gone.

biko · 21-01-2013 07:25PM

We're talking Russian wolves here mate, big as horses and eats trees if there's no moose or humans around*

*might not be true

Man falls from moving train in Siberia at -40C and lives

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