…then he got back on. Kind of. Things moved fast for the man. Very fast.
Citing German federal police, the BBC reports the unidentified 40 year-old Hungarian national is lucky to be alive and only facing a misdemeanor charge of “an act disruptive to operations” after clinging to outside of the train that had accelerated to at least 175 miles per hour before other passengers saw him hanging on for dear life on Thursday. The man had tried to get back on the Lübeck-bound express train after stepping out for a smoke at a station in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.
“A police officer from the state police who happened to be traveling with the train found the 40 year-old Hungarian ‘passenger’ and brought him on to the train,” said a federal police spokesman. Cops brought the train to a halt about 18 miles north and detained the man, who was also supposedly traveling without a ticket. Not sure how they could rule out that he dropped it while clinging to the outside of a train that was moving at 175 miles per hour in Bavaria in freaking January.