GERMAN MOONER DRAGGED HALF NAKED ALONG THE PLATFORM

BERLIN - A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.

• The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for travelling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said.
• "It's a miracle he wasn't badly hurt," the spokesman said. "This sort of thing can end up killing you."
• Instead, dangling by his trousers, the man got pulled along for about 200 metres, all the while managing to keep his legs away from the wheels of the train.
• The ordeal ended when a passenger pulled the emergency brake. Rescues services were called in, causing rail services between Bremen and Hamburg to be suspended for over an hour, delaying 23 trains.
• The man -- unharmed except for cuts and bruises, now faces charges of dangerous interference in rail transport, insulting the train staff, and may face sizeable a compensation claim for the delays he caused, police said.
• "He was full of remorse when I talked to him," the spokesman said. "And he advised others not to try the same thing."

Source: Reuters