While on the subject of trains (see the post below), our (late) doofi come (or came) from South Africa.
A couple in South Africa who were having sex on a railway track in Mpumalanga Province have been killed by a goods train, police say.
Spokesman Abie Khoabane said it took place on Friday evening and the victims were yet to be identified.
He told local newspapers that the couple ignored the driver’s shouts as he moved the train into the disused station in Kinross town.
“They continued with their business,” he told the Sowetan paper.
According to South Africa’s Beeld newspaper, the area was deserted with no cars or houses nearby.
The man died at the scene and the woman died later at hospital, the Sowetan reports.
The police have appealed for those with missing relatives to come forward to help with their investigation.
Uh . . . yes. I can see that getting clobbered by a railway engine’s cow-catcher while in the missionary position wouldn’t do much for the chances of identification of either couple! But – why sex on a railway line? Aren’t there more comfortable venues available?
“Did the earth move for you, darling?”
Sheesh!
Peter
Shouts?
No whistle?
actually thinking about it (not that i really want to think too hard about it), i can’t really come up with a more “uncomfortable” place than railway tracks … unless there’s something i don’t know about South African railway tracks.