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Somchai wearing jacket 13 takes a leak and falls under Bangkok train - but lives to tell the tale!


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Somchai wearing jacket 13 takes a leak and falls under Bangkok train - but lives to tell the tale!

 

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Image: Daily News

 
Motorcycle taxi rider Somchai Sotsaidao will have a story to tell his grandchildren after he fell in front of a train while urinating on the tracks in the Makkasan area of Bangkok. 
 
Somchai, 34, had parked his bike on Rama 7 road and vaulted a barrier to go and relieve himself. 
 
But he was so drunk that he fell on the tracks just at the moment the 4107 train approached. 
 
The eight carriage container train from Bang Sue to Lat Krabang went over him as he crouched under the wheels for dear life. 
 
It screeched to a halt and rescue services found Somchai severely injured but alive under the seventh carriage.
 
His left hand had almost been detached but he was still with us and then taken to Ratchawithi Hospital.
 
A man in the area heard the train brake suddenly and rushed to the scene where he heard Somchai's remarkable brush with death.
 
Somchai was wearing his orange "win" jacket number 13. He is a rider in the Pattanakarn 25 area. 
 
Daily News said somewhat poetically that his "brush with the Iron Horse was the stuff of the movies". 
 
Source: Daily News
 
 
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18 hours ago, rooster59 said:
But he was so drunk that he fell on the tracks just at the moment the 4107 train approached. 
 
The eight carriage container train from Bang Sue to Lat Krabang went over him as he crouched under the wheels for dear life. 

Lightweight...if he was properly drunk he wouldn't have noticed the train. 

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On 9/23/2018 at 12:23 PM, Just Weird said:

Would it be racist to call a black person "Rastus" if his name was actually Rastus or the Irishman "Paddy" if his name was Paddy?

 

This man's name is Somchai.

If his name had been anything other than Somchai, it wouldn't have been used in the first word of the headline for comic effect.

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21 hours ago, lamyai3 said:

If his name had been anything other than Somchai, it wouldn't have been used in the first word of the headline for comic effect.

That's something only the Daily News, not you, would know about.

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He was not urinating, he was stroking

 

stroking in the face of death is a folk tradition that is believed to prolong life and increase "vitality"

 

this is is the stuff dreams are made of. 

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