Cleaning Lady Steals Train

[Grim Reaper]

Stockholm train crashed into apartments 'by cleaner'


A cleaning woman stole an empty commuter train in a suburb of Stockholm and crashed it into a house, injuring herself, Swedish officials say.

The four-carriage train was driven out of the depot for about a mile until it jumped the tracks, becoming wedged into a three-storey building.

Police arrested a woman, who was flown to a Stockholm hospital with serious injuries. Nobody else was hurt.

A railway official confirmed the woman in custody was an employee.

"We have only heard good things about her," Tomas Hedenius, a spokesman for train operator Arriva, was quoted as saying by AP news agency.

"We're investigating how this could happen."

Three families were inside the apartment building hit by the train but nobody was injured, the spokesman added.

"It's incredibly lucky that no-one in the house was injured," police spokesman Ulf Lindgren told TT news agency.

Christer G Wennerholm, a member of the Stockholm County Council's traffic committee, said: "It shouldn't be possible for unauthorised people to drive our trains."

You really can't make this stuff up, and here's an album showing more pictures of the accident.

[dgs49]

Commuter trains are supposed to be fail-safe. Even if she knew how to make the train go, there should have been circuitry and/or mechanical impediments to prevent this from happening.

[Lord Jim]

I'm going to stick my neck out here and guess that one or more of these will be found to have played a role in this joy ride:

A.Alcohol
B. Drugs that shouldn't have been taken, but were
C. Drugs that should have been taken, but weren't

But regardless of the explanation, the woman is clearly a train wreck....

[Gob]

But did she clean up after herself?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Some guy in Florida is about to blame the Obama administration. You can see his point really - it's obvious innit?

[Grim Reaper]

Obviously it's those murder train simulators these kids are playing nowadays.

[dales]

Start them out on HO then O then G and it's all downhill from there.