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Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
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Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
November 2, 2020 at 11:18 am
A train driver in the Netherlands has had a lucky escape thanks to a fortuitously placed art installation.

A metro train in Spijkenisse, near the city of Rotterdam, crashed through a barrier at the end of the tracks shortly before midnight on Sunday.
But rather than plummeting 10m (32ft) into the water below, the train was left suspended dramatically in the air.
It ended up being delicately balanced on the large sculpture of a whale's tail at the De Akkers metro station.
"We are trying to decide how we can bring the train down in a careful and controlled manner," one official told the Dutch national broadcaster NOS on Monday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54780430

Look at the pictures, amazing!
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RE: Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
November 2, 2020 at 11:19 am (This post was last modified: November 2, 2020 at 11:20 am by Foxaèr.)
Must've been an act of god, amIright?


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RE: Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
November 2, 2020 at 11:31 am
(November 2, 2020 at 11:19 am)Eleven Wrote: Must've been an act of god, amIright?



Ohh yes, Zeus is good like that Smile
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RE: Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
November 2, 2020 at 11:34 am
(November 2, 2020 at 11:31 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Ohh yes, Zeus is good like that  Smile

I was thinking Poseidon, but oh well.
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RE: Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
November 2, 2020 at 12:24 pm
(November 2, 2020 at 11:34 am)Eleven Wrote:
(November 2, 2020 at 11:31 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Ohh yes, Zeus is good like that  Smile

I was thinking Poseidon, but oh well.

Different domain, sorta. Maybe Poseidon wanted a train, and Prometheus stopped him? Who knows.
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RE: Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
November 2, 2020 at 12:29 pm (This post was last modified: November 2, 2020 at 12:29 pm by brewer.)
This looks careful and controlled.

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RE: Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
November 2, 2020 at 2:19 pm
They show vids like that to new trainees. It takes some convincing to get troops to let a missile fly out of a tube a meter or so in front of them.
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