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| Protester's leg cut off by train |
| 2004-11-07 |
| AN anti-nuclear activist died in France after his leg was cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste while he was sitting on a railway track, France's SNCF railway operator said today. "The driver noticed a group of people sitting on the tracks. "Some of them got up. He pulled the emergency brake, but one of the people remained sitting, and one of his legs was cut off and he has died," a spokeswoman for SNCF said. The accident happened close to the town of Avricourt in eastern France, the SNCF said. The train had left Valognes in northern France and was heading to the storage facility in the German village of Gorleben. Anti-nuclear activists protesting against such shipments have clashed violently with police in previous years. In 2002, protesters disrupted the passage of a train by setting tyres alight on the tracks and chaining themselves to the rails. In the northern German town of Dannenberg, where the casks of radioactive material were to be loaded onto a convoy of trucks and driven a few kilometres to Gorleben, thousands of people protested. Environmental group Greenpeace has said the Gorleben storage site, in a disused salt mine, is unsafe over the long term and risks contaminating ground water. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #10 "I'm for the reduction of arms -- aagh! My leg!" Bwahahahahahahaha!!! And if someone cuts off both of your legs, don't come running to me! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-11-08 12:04:07 AM |
| #9 I heard there was a fellow so stupid he did it more than once. Goes by the name Bob now. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-11-07 10:10:02 PM |
| #8 This happened about twenty years ago here. I think the guys name was/is 'Stumpy.' |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-11-07 9:57:37 PM |
| #7 "I'm for the reduction of arms -- aagh! My leg!" |
| Posted by: BH 2004-11-07 8:43:46 PM |
| #6 hahahahahahahahahahaha!!! |
| Posted by: 98zulu 2004-11-07 8:22:32 PM |
| #5 Trains, why do they hate stupid protesters? |
| Posted by: Analog Roam 2004-11-07 7:24:03 PM |
| #4 The Science Fiction writer Jerry Pournelle suggested the best method of dealing with these morons I've ever seen. Pile up all the radioactive waste in the desert and put a big fence around it with signs that say, "If you cross this fence you will die." The morons will cross the fence, and die of radiation poisoning and the average IQ goes up a few tenths of a percentage point. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2004-11-07 7:11:35 PM |
| #3 Now this imbecile is worth of a Darwin and our contempt. Did they learn notheing from Port Chicago? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-07 7:08:01 PM |
| #2 with the potential hijacking of n-waste for a dirty bomb, wht would he stop? Run them the F*&K over! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-07 7:07:44 PM |
| #1 "The train will stop! I will bend the laws of physics to my will! Oh, crap..." |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2004-11-07 6:46:57 PM |