[vatossan]

damn idiot broke the train

[Jonnyb75]

Originally Posted by SNDResearch ↗

A friend once told me one of his mates was a train driver who used to drive the high speed inter-city trains in the UK. He had a similar event but this person had jumped from a bridge and hit the front of the train. It was a hot day, so the driver had a side window open for breeze, and as a result, upon impact the body pretty much turned to mist, most of which was sucked into the cabin and breathed in by the driver. A traumatic event to be sure, but from that day on the driver never opened a window again, no matter how hot it was... (Yeah, sounds a bit like an urban myth, maybe, wouldn't put it past the person who told me, but reading the above it seems more than plausible.)

Very likely true, my friend does the Plymouth to Edinburgh route. He had his first "jumper" a few years back. Got 6 months off on full pay.
He spoke about it a few years later and said the smell was the worst. An awful, metallic iron from the pink mist, and a smell like manure or cow shit, possibly from the partly digested stomach contents of the jumper.
When he smells a farm, it takes him right back, and the crack is loud when they hit.