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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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Ironically...she made all the stops on the way...
looks like the turn signal blinker is still on
Oh boy. What a night. Now where the hell did I parked my train.
Steal a train and see what happens..NUTZ !... There goes her check in the mail from the insurance company for being a safe driver.
Wonderfully designed house and amazing structural integrity.. wonder if it was concrete/foam.
Would love to know about the architect and the building method...
Why would you steel a train? It's not like you can get away with it. You're not going to be able to sneak down a dark alley with it and hide. Idiot.
"Why would you steel a train?"
^^Exactly. They're so much better made of iron.
Woman driver... probably a blonde, too... and she didn't open the garage door... geeze!
I am quite puzzled by the caption under the second photo:
"A derailed train hangs on the edge of the track after it crashed into the side of a residential building..."
If there really is a track under the train in this photo, why is the house there? If the caption is correct, then either someone stupidly laid train tracks into a house, or someone stupidly built a house on train tracks.
That caught my eye too (posted it earlier in a response about how close the tracks must be). I've looked closely at each photo and can't figure out where the tracks are that this train is supposed to be hanging onto. Either someone is misinformed and there's no tracks anywhere nearby, or the back portion of the train is on some tracks but not the part in the picture.
Some factories actually had large bay doors that could be opened with rail spur going in so that boxcar could be pushed into the factory for unloading supplies and reloading with outgoing product.
I'll guess either a piss-poor translation, or the work of another useless MSNBC editor.
Shore Bud Mike / abanksone .. To get a better idea, do this.
Go to Google maps and enter "Saltsjobaden" you can see end of the rail tracks. Then go to street view and get a better look a the house that got hit..
She knew how to get it moving, but missed the lesson on how to get it to stop! LOL
must have been texting while driving!
Texting and train driving never works..:(
Who builds a house on train tracks or at the end of one?
Thank God Sweden has gun control and stable citizens.
It's time Sweden ban's trains... just a matter of time before those trains start kill a lot of people... "BAN TRAINS NOW!!!!!!!"
Honey, is someone knocking at the door?
Going off the rails on a crazy train!!
That does it. I'll never travel on a railroad in the future, they're death traps, killer machines. We have a President who encourages this sort of thing what with him promising to support faster trains. He must be impeached!
A cleaner? Well that explains it. We all know about those shifty eyed low class cleaners! I'm so glad they mention several times that she was a cleaner because that helps us so much to be able to know future crimes by such lowlifes. Perhaps now everyone will see how we must pay special attention to cleaners and better understand what goes on in the mind of such persons. It all makes so much sense when we attach a lowly job title to the perpetrator. We have to stop cleaning or surely we are doomed!
Kind of an important tip: "ahem".... Make sure you can drive whatever it is you decide to steal (Car, Train, Boeing 787 Airliner, Space Shuttle, etc.)
"The Little Cleaner That Could" An inspirational tale of a woman sick and tired of operating toilets.
The house seems to be built very close to the tracks. In the photos, the house and the overpass for the tracks are very close to each other and tracks and house seem to be separated only by a hedge. There is probably lose some depth perception in photos but I would expect at least 10 - 20 feet buffer.
Great, we now have Assualt Trains!
It's most bizarre that one can drive a train in a straight line into a house, with or without tracks.
How the hell!!! Maybe she just got bored...somethin' to do i guess!!
They'll have to do a better job of screening employee applicants, and maybe give them a mental exam before hiring. I assume there was no one in that portion of house when the train came crashing through. It may take her a few years to pay for damages caused, also.
If it was a bullet train, we will now have to ban all assault trains.
*rolling eyes*