UPDATED:Great Train Robber NOT To Be Released Posted: 5 months ago by pocksucket
Now 79 and seriously ill, train robber Ronnie Biggs is set to be released from prison into a nursing home.
NB - Since posting, the Home Office refused his parole application and the story at the end of the link was updated.
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Newborn survives after slipping out of train loo Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
It's probably the ultimate survival story. A child is born prematurely, slips through the toilet bowl of a running train, crash lands onto the tracks. The entire train passes over her, but she is alive and is now sleeping peacefully at the Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmedabad.
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Man Texting While Driving Hits Train Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
When Robert Gillespie looked up from his text message, he saw a freight train. EOM. ("End of message," that is, for non-texters.) Eugene police say Gillespie's car crashed into the side of the Union Pacific freight train about 2 a.m. Tuesday.
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Amazing Model Train Exhibit Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
Many pics of a HUGE set-up for a model train and the miniature town it runs through. The detail is incredible.
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Casualties after Metro Train Collision Posted: 5 months ago by nateebiinature
At least one person has died and several people are trapped and injured after a Metro Red Line train derailed and collided with another Metro train, officials say.
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Robber wins $1m prize - but could lose it Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all. That's because he's also a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to be gambling. Boston probation commissioner's office has scheduled a court hearing for December 7 to determine whether Timothy Elliott, 55, violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the "$800 Million Spectacular" game at a Hyannis supermarket
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Squeaky Fromme Released from Prison Posted: 3 months ago by PulsisX
The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford has been released after more than three decades behind bars.
Update from This
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Test runs start on 320 kph (199 mph) bullet train Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
The new train will be able to link Tokyo and Shin-Aomori stations in three hours and five minutes starting at the end of fiscal 2012. The run currently takes three hours and 59 minutes.
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Hi-Speed Baby Born - Free train rides for life! Posted: 2 months ago by Ankabout
A baby girl was born Monday on a high-speed train linking Paris and Brussels, the first such case since the Thalys rail service was created in 1996. As a reward the new addition to the human race will ride the Thalys for free, forever.
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Police: NY Robber Refuses $10, Takes $4 Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A knife-wielding robber needed only $4, so he refused to take a $10 bill from his victim and waited while the man made change at a pizza parlor.
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Late Night Intruder in Dark Posted: 3 years ago by Young81k
Short story about a woman deal with the late night intruder.
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Robbery suspect was just released from prison Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
Boise Police and Ada County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man just released from prison for robbing a bank near the Boise Towne Square this afternoon.
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