Starting trouble ? Push the train

May 16, 2007 10:49 PM

Driver asks passengers to push the train !We have heard people pushing cars to jump start them but here is news for you, train passengers were asked to push a train. Bizarre but true !.
posted by chrisranjana.com (23 comments total)

I like how your FPP has two links to the same location, and no other links.

I'd have more to say, but I gotta go push a train, if you know what I mean.
posted by davejay at 10:53 PM on May 16, 2007

But you sure must appreciate the train driver's innovation :)
posted by chrisranjana.com at 10:58 PM on May 16, 2007

oops here is one more link

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSDEL8709820070516?feedType=RSS
posted by chrisranjana.com at 10:59 PM on May 16, 2007

This is not a fabulous advertisment for web development services.
posted by jimmythefish at 11:14 PM on May 16, 2007

Yes correct this is about people pushing a train :)))
posted by chrisranjana.com at 11:24 PM on May 16, 2007

Uh, yeah.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:24 PM on May 16, 2007

Train news-of-the-weird blip?
posted by tellurian at 11:24 PM on May 16, 2007

Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Get up on this!
Ow! baby!
Salt and pepas here!
[now wait a minute, yall
This dance aint for everybody
Only the sexy people
So all you fly mothers, get on out there and dance
Dance, I said!]
Salt and pepas here, and were in effect
Want you to push it, babe
Coolin by day then at night working up a sweat
Cmon girls, lets go show the guys that we know
How to become number one in a hot party show
Now push it
Ah, push it - push it good
Ah, push it - push it real good
Ah, push it - push it good
Ah, push it - p-push it real good
Hey! ow!
Push it good!
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Oooh, baby, baby
Baby, baby
Push it good
Push it real good
Ah, push it
Ah, push it
Yo, yo, yo, yo, baby-pop
Yeah, you come here, gimme a kiss
Better make it fast or else Im gonna get pissed
Cant you hear the musics pumpin hard like I wish you would?
Now push it
Push it good
Push it real good
Push it good
P-push it real good
Ah, push it
Get up on this!
Boy, you really got me going
You got me so I dont know what Im doing
posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:25 PM on May 16, 2007

trust my countrymen to do this ;p
posted by infini at 11:26 PM on May 16, 2007

You've never lived in San Francisco, have you? Jumping out of the 22-Fillmore to help push a stalled MUNI car up the hill is a rite of passage.
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 11:27 PM on May 16, 2007

True !™
posted by Effigy2000 at 11:43 PM on May 16, 2007

You've never lived in San Francisco, have you? Jumping out of the 22-Fillmore to help push a stalled MUNI car up the hill is a rite of passage.
posted by freshwater_pr0n at 11:27 PM on May 16 [+]
[!]

I live on the steepest part of Mason right after Sacramento and have never heard of this...
posted by infini at 11:48 PM on May 16, 2007

I didn't even need to read the article to just *know* this happened in India. Heh. Bihar. Obviously just a ploy to get the passengers off the train so the driver's dacoit buddies could more easily rob them, only they didn't show up on time, because, well, it's India.

This is not a fabulous advertisment for web development services.

Yes, the Times of India really shouldn't get highschool kids to do their coding for free as part of some kind of spurious school project. Oh, hang on, are you referring to the self-promotion? Modda madichi muddilo pettuko.
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:13 AM on May 17, 2007

I've been on the trains in India, and this doesn't strike me as bizarre in the least. The country itself is bizarre in more ways than I can describe. This seems like something I could very well have seen or participated in.
posted by zardoz at 12:15 AM on May 17, 2007

OK, it happened, but the Indian papers thought it newsworthy, which indicates that shit like that in India is weird, not common.

I am more interested in what the other passengers did to the person who pulled the emergency chain:

It so happened that a passenger of the Patna-Buxar electric modified unit train pulled its emergency chain and the locomotive came to a halt in a neutral zone, a 14-metre length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires. A train's momentum usually allows it to continue moving through neutral zones.

And on this, the Times is silent.
posted by pracowity at 1:00 AM on May 17, 2007

and also what made the *other* passenger pull the chain in the first place ? was he testing it !
posted by chrisranjana.com at 1:28 AM on May 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

So these passengers had to push a train? But a train normally moves under its own power! That's both totally outrageous and The Best Of The Web!

AAAA++++++ WOULD PUSH AGIAN!!!!1111
posted by RokkitNite at 1:36 AM on May 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

I've been on the trains in India, and this doesn't strike me as bizarre in the least. The country itself is bizarre in more ways than I can describe.

You mean like my "12 hour" Rajdhani Express trip turning into 29 hours due to fog?

Me to Indian gentleman seated nearby: "We left ourselves a full day between this destination and our flight."
Indian gentleman: "You're not going to make it."
posted by dreamsign at 2:51 AM on May 17, 2007 [2 favorites]

Stranger things have happened to trains in Bihar. Last year, a train got hijacked.
posted by the cydonian at 3:51 AM on May 17, 2007

I presume they got a voucher for their trouble, right? Or was it just first-class passengers who did?
posted by DenOfSizer at 3:58 AM on May 17, 2007

I presume they got a voucher for their trouble, right? Or was it just first-class passengers who did?
posted by DenOfSizer

*insane roflmao* this is india, don't mind it, we are like this wonly...

no, no vouchers, first class or no... or at least I would be very suprised if there were any...
posted by infini at 4:00 AM on May 17, 2007

I don't think this would surprise anyone who's ever traveled much in India. What's surprising is that the driver didn't just leave them all in the countryside without a word of explanation.

Just last week I had a 14-hour train ride (through Bihar, no less) turn into 24, during which time rats and cockroaches ran under the bunks and the man sitting across from me spent hours silently and blatantly photographing me on his cellphone. A few days before that I spent 8 hours on a 2-3 hour bus in UP, waiting while army units repeatedly stopped us. At one point, someone yelled something about immigration, strange men ran on board the bus, several uniformed men followed, and a large scuffle ensued before they all ran out. The idea that I might receive a voucher for any of my trouble is really, really funny.

The Times of India sometimes has really strange ideas about what qualifies as newsworthy. Hell, I've even been in the city section of the paper because, as a white person with several white friends, I attended a local university speech about Ghandi. Of course, like the fine gentlemen on the train, they did not ask before taking our picture, or offer any explanation.

Oh India, I'm going to miss you...
posted by bookish at 5:42 AM on May 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

How the hell did the locomotive go BACK to the neutral zone, powered, to pull the train again? I hate piecemeal journalism.
posted by hodyoaten at 5:46 AM on May 17, 2007