Tuesday, 3 September 2013

"Foreign millipedes to blame for Australia train crash"

Possibly one of the greatest headlines ever in The Evening Standard:

Hundreds of the creatures were found squashed in a slippery mess on the track.

David Hynes, spokesman at the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia, said: "Millipedes are one of the factors we are going to take into account."

Six passengers were treated for neck problems after a train pulling into a station at Clarkson, 25 miles north of Perth, ran into a stationary one, the train company said.


As British Rail would have said, "It was the wrong type of insects."

2 comments:

Bayard said...

"As British Rail would have said, "It was the wrong type of insects."

Or not, as the link points out.

Anonymous said...

B, er, that was the joke.