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Jonas Ekstromer / Scanpix Sweden via Reuters
Police officers stand around a local train that derailed and crashed into a residential building in Saltsjobaden outside Stockholm on Jan. 15, 2013.
Reuters reports — A cleaning lady allegedly stole a Swedish train and drove it off the end of the tracks and smashed into a house outside Stockholm on Tuesday.
It was not clear how the woman, around 20, got access to the key needed to start the train. She was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but the train was carrying no other passengers as it was in the early hours and no one in the house was hurt.
A train cleaner was injured after police say she stole a train and crashed it into a house in Sweden. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
"The cleaner drove the train at high speed, considerably higher than normal on that stretch, to where the rails end and crashed into a house," said Jesper Pettersson, spokesman at Stockholm Public Transport (SL).
The train ploughed past the end of the line and vaulted over a street separating the house from the depot, crashing through a balcony and into a downstairs room in the upscale suburb of Saltsjobaden. SL and police were investigating how she had gained access to the cabin and been able to drive the train.
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Stealing a train? And what are you going to do with it - most pawn shops won't give you anything for one! And it's not like you are going to put it out back of your house (or is that what she was trying?)
...but the only thing "loaded" was the cleaning lady, and it "went off" (the tracks) because of her.
Has Obama seen this story yet? I'm sure he will want to ban assault trains so this never happens again.
Newsflash: He's not the President of Sweden.
I heard Ringo Starr reading this article.
Her plea to the judge: I do not get to drive the train, or even ring the bell. But let the damn thing jump the tracks, and see who catches hell.
There is something outside of the USA?! SHUT UP....prolly just Alaska fewlin
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See. Guns ain't the only issue here.
it's evident, women can't drive. I know, I'm a woman
Thank you for admitting it. You probably drive an SUV too. Even worse.
Wow! This lady is lucky no one else was hurt! Imagine coming home to a train in your house!
Also, this sentence made my head hurt: "She was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but the train was carrying no other passengers as it was in the early hours and no one in the house was hurt."
If I came home to a train in my house I'd just have to end the relation and kick that girl out- and all her damn guy friends too!
A little known fact is Babe Ruth and some of his buddies,drunker than skunks,stole a train in NYC and ended up in North White Plains before they were stopped.It was quickly swept under the rug as the Babe was everyone's hero and just a good ole boy.
where in the hell did this woman who stole a train in Sweden think she was going
The wrong side of the tracks, obviously. :D ;)
how does one exactly steal a train though?
Ask the woman who stole the train in Sweden.
You really CAN go anywhere in Europe via train! :D
It is best not to speculate on the reasons for the cleaner. The nearby train company SL, has been criticized for several reasons. You have to be patient and wait, she recovers from crash injuries and explain what happened.
It would take more then one cleaning lady to clean that mess
Maybe she was a disgruntled employee and that was the house she cleaned.
How do those lyrics go? I'm going off the rails with the crazy cleaning lady.
Maybe her and her boyfriend were having sex in the cab and with all the passion they LOST TRACK.