A woman in Sweden yesterday stole a commuter train from a station near Stockholm, drove it for three minutes, and then crashed it into a three-story house. As far as I can tell, this wasn't some sort of marketing stunt for a new "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" movie or book.
No one is sure how the woman—who is a cleaning lady in addition to acting out fantasies of being an 1880s Wild West outlaw—stole the train, or why she did it. Swedish authorities are also suprised that she crashed it so quickly, as the trains are easy to operate. "Generally speaking that's possible even if you're not a train driver," a subcontractor told the Associated Press. "You can read about it on the Internet, or observe how others do it."
Please enjoy this video, because it took me 20 fucking minutes to embed it thanks to Swedish directions more complicated than an Ikea bed set. (Thus ends every Swedish reference I have. Wait... Chef, meatballs, fjords. Alright, I'm out.)
[H/T: Gawker]






























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