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Two lovers whom officials said had "failed to overcome their natural passion" were hit by a train in Ukraine while they had sex on the railroad tracks, Russian news outlet RIA Novosti reported.
The unidentified 30-something woman died, and her 41-year-old partner lost both his legs in the Saturday morning incident in the city of Zaporozhye.
Yahoo cited a police statement that the pair were supposedly drunk.
"My girlfriend and I could not overcome our passionate nature and wanted to feel a sense of thrill near a railway track," the man later old police, according to RIA Novosti. ....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/train-tracks-sex-run-over-ukraine-_n_4017485.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
Kaleva
(36,146 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)A sign with couple having sex on tracks under a red circle with a line across it.
Kaleva
(36,146 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)his legs were lying across the tracks and he might have been on his back with her on top.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)stupid.
Kaleva
(36,146 posts)"To make matter worse, officers are considering charging the man for trespassing on the track after the couples sex session in the Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-having-sex-railway-tracks-2323644
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)with no legs:
NEAR is not the same as ON.
oy...
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I never thought about it until I was standing on the edge of a platform when a no-stop went full speed through the Subway station. Those trains displace a lot of air and an object moving at high speed with a large volume is going to displace enough air to pull you towards it as it passes. That was a 8-car light-rail subway train...imagine how much more a 100-car heavy-gauge freight train moves.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)but, like most news stories of this nature, it's lacking in many details.
Like how fast the train was actually moving
Kaleva
(36,146 posts)So many details left out.
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)it definitely wasn't...
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,280 posts)lastlib
(22,981 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Risky Business, from back when Tom Cruise was actually good.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)for both of them if they couldn't feel a train coming while they were on the tracks...