Pensioner urinating on a train track is killed by a flying cow

[hollydolly]

Never in your life would anyone imagine this is how they would die....

Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died immediately after being struck by a flying cow which was hit and flung 100 feet into the air by an express train.

Sharma had been urinating on the track in the region of Alwar, India, when the freak incident occurred.

Another man had been standing nearby the tracks and only narrowly avoided being struck by the flying animal.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that measures such as garbage and vegetation removal had begun to cull the cows.

The incident caused many officials to rally for improved regulation on the train route, which sees a lot of cow incidents on its tracks.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ain-track-killed-flying-cow-hit-carriage.html

 

[CallMeKate]

First thought: "Oh, click bait."
Second thought: "No, Holly wouldn't do click bait!"
My goodness, bet we'll never see *that* headline again!

 

[hollydolly]

First thought: "Oh, click bait."
Second thought: "No, Holly wouldn't do click bait!"
My goodness, bet we'll never see *that* headline again!

I hate to laugh at someone's else's misfortune.. but never in my lifetime did I ever think I'd read anything like that !

 

[Lee]

one in a million shot, bulls eye

 

[ArnoldC]

OMG! First thought reading the subject line before opening was, "Gotta be somewhere in Texas. . . "

It's not funny I know, that both a man and a cow were fatalities. But forgive me, I can't stop laughing.

 

[CallMeKate]

one in a million shot, bulls eye

BULL'S eye?!
Oh, @Lee that one had me hootin!

 

[WhatInThe]

Hope this thread doesn't go off the rails.

RIP the victim

 

[OldFeller]

If you laughed at this story it's because you watched too much Monty Python

 

[Right Now]

If you laughed at this story it's because you watched too much Monty Python

Yes, and it's in the UK news on a Sunday? Catches attention to the bored.....now, That's Just Funny!

 

[Avon]

Don't pee on railway tracks, the steaks are too high.

 

[jujube]

As soon as I read "India", I knew it had actually happened.

India is the only place that more weird things happen than in Florida.

 

[jujube]

Don't pee on railway tracks, the steaks are too high.

But very well tenderized....

 

[CallMeKate]

I'm kind of glad it wasn't a ... no one could ever use the old saying "when pigs fly" any longer! I feel very sorry for the man... my statement is about the "flying ."

 

[HoneyNut]

I thought trains had some sort of cow clearing device on the front of them, don't they have that in India?

 

[Tish]

Oh, I am so going to Hell.

 

[IKE]

Us folks in Oklahoma gotta be real careful during tornado / flying bovine season......might of had something to do with the cheap scotch I was drinking at the time but I saw three of them suckers in one night.

 

[CarolfromTX]

Who urinates in public, let alone on a train track? Oh, wait, it’s India. Who lets a cow wander around on its own? Oh, wait, it’s India. Dave’s been there on business, so I’ve heard the stories and seen the pictures. So if anyone is going to be hit by a flying cow, India is the place. What a way to go.

 

[Michael Z]

In Thailand, it might be a white elephant that gets hit. Look out!
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/608035/white-elephant-party-origins

 

[Geezer Garage]

Or bulls hoof, or bulls horn, or bulls butt, etc. etc. etc.

one in a million shot, bulls eye

 

[OneEyedDiva]

First thought: "Oh, click bait."
Second thought: "No, Holly wouldn't do click bait!"
My goodness, bet we'll never see *that* headline again!

Lets hope not Kate!
HD...just when ya think the news can't get any stranger...I tell ya!! So would you rather be hit by a train or a flying cow?!
WTH was he urinating on the tracks anyway??

 

[Sunny]

Yes, I agree, that is a perfect Monty Python skit! Funniest death story I've ever seen.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I know this is strange. When I read that the man was cow bombed while urinating, I wondered if the poor guy had at least finished.

 

[Lewkat]

Now, how weird is this?

 

[Pappy]

At first, I didn’t understood the cow part. I thought he might have peed on an electric rail. Then I read the rest of the story.

 

[debodun]

What are the chances? When pigs fly.