OT: Metal soldier gets hit by train and lives \m/
 

Train bash survivor thanking metal gods
By CP

RED DEER -- The metal gods were smiling on Jesse Maggrah.

The 20-year-old man was walking beside railway tracks on Sunday, the Norwegian heavy metal band Gorgoroth cranked on his portable CD player, when he was hit by a freight train.

Maggrah said he did hear the blast of the train horn just before he was hit.

"I tried to jump out of the way, but I guess not in time," he said yesterday from his bed at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

"It was just instant. I was just walking and then I was on the ground. I wasn't sure what happened. Then I saw the train stopping up ahead. I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train.' "

Police say the engineer and conductor on the northbound Canadian Pacific Railway train saw the man on the tracks several kilometres south of Red Deer. The crew blew the whistle and attempted to stop, but they were only able to slow the train to about 50 kmh before hitting him.

Maggrah was thrown four to five metres from the tracks. Stunned, he moved his arms and legs to check for damage.

"I knew I was alive, so that was good."

He has several broken ribs, one which is poking into a lung, his doctors have told him. Maggrah is also very sore and stiff, and is having trouble walking.

Maggrah said he didn't hear the train over his music and he didn't feel anything through the ground.

"Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them. Otherwise, I'd be up there in the kingdom of steel."

Police say no charges are pending against the man.

Seems he has a good perspective on things

GOLD!

Real Darwin Award material if you ask me.

I get the impression he was on more than just metal.


DUDE, you just got hit by a train. COOL !

Too bad he wasn't listening to British Steel at the time...

Eh, he lived, so he'll have to settle for an Honorable Mention.

Apparently the Metal Gods have moved on to other, more worthy causes:


The Canadian Press is reporting that the 20-year-old man who was hit by a train that he didn't hear coming because he had Norwegian black metal band GORGOROTH blaring in his headphones now has to pay a $287 ticket for trespassing on Canadian Pacific Railway tracks.

Jesse Maggrah was knocked into the ditch and suffered several broken ribs and scrapes to his head and hands.

On Wednesday (April 19), a CPR officer served Maggrah with the ticket as the young man was recovering in hospital.

"This is a double whammy for me," Maggrah said yesterday. "I'm grateful that I'm living, but I'm not grateful that I've got to pay this ticket. I'm ticked off about it."

The ticket was issued under the Alberta Petty Trespassing Act. Railway police tend to issue warnings about trespassing, but in this case they decided a further deterrent was needed, said CPR spokesman Ed Greenberg.

Maggrah said he’ll pay the fine.

"I don't want to take it to court and all that crap, so I'll just pay it," he said.

good thing for Norwegian national healthcare. he doesn't sound like the type to have health insurance for this kind of thing.

I like that they felt a further deterrent was needed. So getting hit by a train wasn't enough deterrent, but $287 (Canadian) will be?

okay, gorgoroth. New to me.

So what did he look like when he was alive?