A metro train that overran the stop blocks at a station outside Rotterdam has been left balancing 10 metres above ground on the plastic tail of a whale sculpture.
The metro driver was reportedly able to free himself from the train without injury after the incident shortly after midnight on Monday morning. There were no passengers onboard.
Maarten Struijs, who made the sculpture of two tails emerging from water beneath the elevated metro line, said he was surprised the sculpture had held together.
Whale of a tale.
Whale of a tale.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Whale of a tale.
the harpoon train?
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ex-khobar Andy
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Re: Whale of a tale.
It must have been the right whale.
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I'm trying to imagine how many safety measures were missing to allow a train to propel itself through the air.
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Re: Whale of a tale.
Was the engineer a frequenter of the bar car?
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One man's art is another man's tracks.
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I read somewhere that the sculpture was plastic and had been outside for years; I'm surprised it was strong enough to hold the train car. A pastc like that is worth a second look--it could be used to make a lot of things.
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Ironic that he did not get to the nether land.
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ex-khobar Andy
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Re: Whale of a tale.
Did he do it on porpoise?
No, it was a fluke.
No, it was a fluke.
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Re: Whale of a tale.
A fin says the driver was impaired.
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Re: Whale of a tale.
Same accident; couple of views from different perspectives....
Incidentally, the sculpture itself is made of a composite material — a form of plastic, in other words, not metal or concrete.
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Incidentally, the sculpture itself is made of a composite material — a form of plastic, in other words, not metal or concrete.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?