The man who clung to a high-speed train

[@stroke_of_luck]

There is already the Darwin award. Which he failed to win by a hair’s breath

[@tungurahua8257]

The „Heute Show“ has the „Vollpfosten des Jahres“ award.

[@stupiddog79]

And the "Official" Darwin Awards even have a category for people who "fail" to become "winners" just by sheer luck: "At-Risk-Survivors" or "Honorary" Mention

[@fairphoneuser9009]

Hair don't breath. But they have a breadth.

[@lohphat]

​@@fairphoneuser9009 *breathe I'll see yo0ur Grammer Nazi and raise you a Grammar Trump! 😉

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@fairphoneuser9009 And far too many people fail to grasp the idea that the Darwin award only makes sense when whatever you did keeps you from reproducing, either by dying or permanently damaging your reproductive organs, *before* you have children (or perhaps by killing those children as well, though that doesn't make for entertaining stories). It's not just about doing something stupidly dangerous. It's about reproducing. And in that sense, you could (at least in theory) also count people like me, who have just no interest in reproducing (or, for that matter, no opportunity for whatever reason) - the end result is that you leave no impression in the human gene pool. But, again, there's the entertainment aspect, which means that these stories are typically excluded from these discussions - and I mean that as just a statement of fact, not a criticism; were it up to me, I'd make the same decision on what to (usually) talk about. I'm just being pedantic here. (Though I managed to avoid the word "actually" ... oops!)

[@Horrrrrrrrst]

I can confirm that the lost and found service is pretty good. I forgot my luggage on a sunday, filled out an online form, got an e-mail in the evening that the luggage had been found and I was able to retrieve it the next morning. It did cost me a 5€ fee, which was of course well worth it.

[@tkleinms]

5€ seems pretty cheap, for me it was 20€ for a forgotten suitcase some years ago , but it was worth it as my raisor in it alone was worth more than that.

[@SomePotato]

@@tkleinms To be fair, most suitcases alone are worth way more than €20.

[@marge2548]

@@tkleinmsSo far, I have not paid anything, but it‘s been a while since I lost something on a train.

[@oPlazmaMC]

No its not. Every time I lost something I either knew the schedule and came back later or just lost it forever

[@marge2548]

@oPlazmaMC I suppose it depends from what you lose and where. A friend of my brother's forgot their school bag on the train several times and it always came back (eventually they knew her already). I forgot a bag with laundry (nothing special) and also got it back. This was all rural Lower Saxony. Losing a phone or a wallet or somesuch on a much frequented train in or close to a larger city might be different as people there might not want to bother and inform the conductor, or prefer to keep valuable things themselves.

[@Aysome]

What strikes me is he was that desperate for a cigarette and he’d only gone not even half way across Bavaria.

[@eisikater1584]

Struck me, too. I'm a real heavy smoker but have learned to keep my addiction under control in public. Yes, sometimes I'd wish trains still had the old wagons with the smokers' compartments, and smoking in public (if even allowed) wouldn't be so much frowned upon, but there's still a final resort: The beer gardens.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@eisikater1584 Or the Cancer/Emphysema Ward at the local hospital.

[@stephanweinberger]

@@eisikater1584 wouldn't a nicotine chewing gum do the trick?

[@eisikater1584]

@ No. I'm rolling my own cigarettes from tobacco, and that tactile feeling, the first puff, tasting the tobacco in your mouth, and seeing the first tiny smoke cloud just in front of your eyes, that cannot be replaced by anything. It's an emotional thing to me, besides that I am heavily addicted and I don't like chewing gum.

[@eisikater1584]

@ I'm an old man and I have been smoking for a long time. Might well be I'll end up in a hospital like many old people do, but hopefully not very soon. And to return to Britain, here's a song quote: "Doctor Parkinson declared, I'm not surprised to see you here You've got smokers cough from smoking, brewer's droop from drinking beer [...]" (Dire Straits: "Industrial Disease", 1982)

[@soundscape26]

As a person of extraordinary intelligence thanks for the shout out

[@wernerderchamp]

The tunnels on this track or even a passing train could have easily blown him off. There is a reason why you need pressure-proof trains on high speed lines. The train probably entered the 7,2km long Tunnel before Kinding at near top speed. This stop is a overtaking station where only the RE1 gives a two-hourly service. The ICE does not stop here.

[@vomm]

No way!? There was the possibility he could have been blown off? I had no idea! Thanks for telling us! That's shocking news.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@wernerderchamp That is the reason new tunnels on high-speed lines are always constructed as parallel tubes, never as a combined tube. The railway traffic rules (and yes, there is such a thing; in fact, there are the rules of the federal railway authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt EBA), and every large railway company also has its own rules in addition) say that high-speed trains in tunnels are not allowed to meet, say, a freight train in the opposite direction ("Tunnelbegegnungsverbot", TBV). You can solve this in other ways (say via scheduling), but if you only use single-track tube pairs, you can avoid that headache, and that is what is typically done on all new construction.

[@wernerderchamp]

@ Yeah, that's how they did it for the Stuttgart - Ulm Line as well.

[@HelloOnepiece]

To cut him some slack, our trains in Hungary sometimes have the speed of around 20km/h or worse.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Can't comment on Hungarian trains but, on some of the Polish countryside rattlers that I rode some years back, it would have been quicker to get off and jog. (I was fitter then.) 😉😊

[@SomePotato]

You'll find sections like these in Germany as well, especially on regional trains in Bavaria, but not with an ICE.

[@Danny30011980]

Still I wouldn't hang to a trai at that speed either. And ticket inspections are happening in HU too

[@pok81]

@@SomePotato nowhere in Germany you will find 20km/h trains so don't talk sh....

[@SomePotato]

@@pok81 There were more than 350 dilapidated "Langsamfahrstellen" in Bavaria alone in 2022, some of them 10 km/h. I doubt they already fixed them all.

[@Gesa-k3u]

Lol - the commercial i got at he start was from Deutsche Bahn about the ICE

[@dorderre]

I got that ad at the end of the video :D

[@papaquonis]

This exact scenario also happened in Denmark about a year ago, but with a less fortunate outcome. Before the train driver was alerted, the man had already fallen off the train and died. They only found his body a couple of weeks later.

[@white0pl]

Smoking is a dangerous habit. And an expensive one.

[@ohauss]

Well, he did try to economize by not having a ticket for the train in the first place...

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@ohauss I think a former colleague of mine at a job - how long ago was that? Must have been around 30 years ago - once told me that he once calculated how much money he had spent on smoking, and it was enough (if I recall correctly) that he could have bought a house with that money. But he had other problems, which possibly the smoking helped with - I never knew him close enough though he sat directly opposite to me at his desk, in my direct line of sight except for the terminals between us. A while later, he put a permanent end to his problems. You never really know what's inside another person.

[@overloader6726]

I live close to kinding. I would never have imagine the name of this rural, unremarkable place in an English video

[@thebamplayer]

That's what you get if you watch Rewbos. In one of his videos he actually mentioned's my neighboring village.

[@colagesicht]

So apparently clinging on to a high speed train has less consequences than not carrying a Ticket.

[@igel9316]

The consequences of clinging to a high speed train include loosing your life. Which is pretty drastic in my book. If he would have endangered others in the process, he might have been charged with "Gefährlichem Eingriff in den Bahnverkehr", which is a crime punishable with up to 10 years in prison.

[@PHAD-rf3oe]

​@@igel9316Many trainsurfers do it for fun and sport. In India, Pakistan, etc. it is the preferred way of traveling 😂

[@sunshiney_Sonnenschein]

@PHAD-rf3oe Someone did it on the ICE and I thought this video was gonna be about that guy.

[@abhijeetm29]

@PHAD-rf3oe Lol no, you are still living 2 decades in the past . Almost entire railway network in India is electrified and you will get fried by the 25kV OHE. This also doesn't happen in Pakistan, but quite frequent in Bangladesh.

[@PHAD-rf3oe]

@@sunshiney_Sonnenschein I know. It was all over the news last Friday here in the Nederlands.

[@martin.brandt]

He apparently is what I would call a Hung Arian

[@rainerzufall42]

There's already the "Darwin Award"! 🤣

[@JaffaJannu]

But he wasn't removed from the gene pool 🤷‍♂

[@HotelPapa100]

Well, he's still able to procreate. So only a honorable mention.

[@B.Ies_T.Nduhey]

How do you know that?!​@@HotelPapa100

[@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

@@B.Ies_T.Nduhey Good point, but I see no reason to believe this action caused it.

[@rainerzufall42]

@@JaffaJannu Yes, he has missed the proconditions!

[@Voraciously_Learning]

I'm going to start watching this view once-a-week. I really need that self esteem boost at the beginning.

[@Ned-Ryerson]

"Jetzt günstig reisen mit den Sparpreisen", DB ad ran before the video started.

[@kornelkokai6519]

But he was "Schwarzfahrer"

[@gregblair5139]

Unfortunately, many youngsters do this in the NY City Subway, and there have been several fatalities, despite that these trains never achieve such a speed. Most of the NY fatalities involve not making tunnel clearance, but I think some were thrown off the train by a sudden acceleration/deceleration or a sharp curve.

[@John_Weiss]

Candidates for the Darwin Award, every one of them.

[@paolagrando5079]

Jumpers. Homeless and drug-abusing kids. Very sad.

[@teotik8071]

Wenn einer eine Reise tut, kann er was erleben. 😂

[@icedragon6761]

Something similar happened between Winsen(Luhe) and Lüneburg. A drunk idiot, who didn't even have a ticket, jumped onto a mantainence step on the pushing locomotive at the rear end of the already departing regional express and rode it all the way to Lüneburg, where he, in a comically coincidence, jumped off directly in front of two police officers. The train goes up to 160 km/h on this main line.

[@Danny30011980]

Yup but you also have lots of ICEs passing at speed through LG. Lasy mmt year when I was there or even before there was someone e who had apparently jumped I front of an ICE, just before I arrived at the station after a visit at a friend's. So the whole platform was cordoned off and trains (Metronom in my case) lest from the opposite station Ayayay!

[@icedragon6761]

​@Danny30011980 Thats right. Main line trains can go up to 200 there. The suction thats created by the passing train is crazy. There is a reason, why you schould stay behind the white line on the platform.

[@casperbetz1949]

I suppose his hovercraft was full of eels.

[@kkon5ti]

We need to change the fare-dodging law.

[@duploman0003]

Why? At least now fare-dodging is actually a thing people avoid doing.

[@kkon5ti]

@ as long as the Deutschlandticket remains affordable… uh I forgot, many people who need the ticket can’t get it due to low Schufa scores

[@notroll1279]

I'd heard of people jumping on top of trains and using large devices working like suction cups to hold on, calling their pastime "train surfing", partly even having that documented with drone footage. Since this must have been an ICE train, I'm really baffled whatever this guy must have held onto... there isn't much "between carriages" on a German high speed train.

[@oPlazmaMC]

Pretty sure there is all the cables that connect brakes, hydraulics and electricity. If you accidentaly teared any of these cables that wouldnt be that good for you either

[@fritz46]

ICEs often are made of two trainsets coupled together. So there is exactly one point "between carriages" where you can stand or sit on the couplings. I don't think it's very comfortable though, especially in January...

[@notroll1279]

@@fritz46 Yes, that might have been the spot. Given the shape of the ends of train segments, that's a pretty windy place to be...

[@rfvtgbzhn]

In my city, 2 teenagers were killed because they were standing on the top of a metro train and knocked down when the train entered a tunnel. And their reason was also more stupid than of the guy in the video, they did it just for a dare.

[@oPlazmaMC]

Also like man if you want to cling onto a train know where the tunnel is its not that difficult is it

[@meinacco]

2 fewer stains on humanity's gene pool

[@igel9316]

With the current weather, and ICE train was at least a fitting choice. 🥶 (Ba Dum Tss)

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

It's your own time you're wasting 😎

[@Gebieter]

Smoking Tobacco is lethal. Sometimes slowly, other times not so much.

[@John_Weiss]

I think autocorrect got you. You probably meant to write, "tobacco." "Tabasco," is a famous brand of hot sauce. So it's not flammable enough to smoke, though it can burn you in other ways. 😉

[@Gebieter]

@John_Weiss Indeed. 🤣 Well, I guess you could vape it.

[@John_Weiss]

@@Gebieter lol I suspect inhaling capsaicin would be worse for you than inhaling tobacco smoke.

[@nullplan01]

Just looked it up: Last-minute fare for the non-stop route is 176,90€. So the penalty fare is over 300€. Of course, if you want some other numbers: If he'd touched the wrong wire, he'd have gotten to taste 15kV. As far as I know 15kV makes one small, black, and ugly.

[@nobbel65]

Yes, small, black, and ugly. And you don't even have to *touch* the wire, a distance of 1.5 metres is small(er than) enough, and you can be "grilled" over an even bigger distance when air humidity is high (fog/mist/rain).

[@fritz46]

How did this guy make it from Hungary to Germany without being killed by a train or dying from nicotine withdrawal?

[@Sampler19]

3:48 Tone Loc approves! :D

[@ricktownend9144]

... "Fill out a form in German, English or French" ... but not Hungarian, apparently!

[@rfvtgbzhn]

2:55 he can only be convicted if the judge thinks that it's proven that he did it on purpose, if he just forgot to buy a ticket, it's not a criminal offense and he just has to pay the penalty fare.

[@mazdaman2315]

Note to self in Germany don’t fare dodge instead ride the roof you’ll get a misdemeanor instead of a felony

[@dorderre]

And what do I get right after this video? A Deutsche Bahn ICE commercial.

[@robertjarman3703]

So the Polar Express's guidance wasn't good enough. At least this man didn't leap onto the train as it was about to go down Glacier Gulch.

[@stevenjlovelace]

I remember seeing a guy moving from one car to another on a moving NYC subway train, and that was "only" moving at 30-35 miles per hour. And no, you're definitely not supposed to do that!

[@jhonbus]

If nobody had spotted him jumping on and reported him, he'd have a great story that nobody would ever believe! (or died)

[@SomePotato]

Probably the later (dead).

[@GameCyborgCh]

the most unbelievable thing about this story is that the train reached 282km/h

[@MrGreatplum]

Wow… that is a potential recipient of the Darwin Award!

[@hanshartfiel6394]

Was he still smoking when the train stopped?

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

No idea. But everybody else was fuming! 🙄

[@eisikater1584]

I'd say he's the train passenger of the year. But the year has just begun. There are 11 months to go, and stupid people are everywhere.

[@JBobjork]

Yes I forgot my bag on the train while getting of at Bad... Something, and after a trip to the other end I got it back. Which means that bag has been on trips I haven't.

[@Canleaf08]

People have to be desparate. People have to be completely dumb. I do not know. If I would be separated from luggage, I would have gone to the DB information or lost and found; and ask that I lost the luggage on Wagen X near seats Y, described what I have lost and arranged transport if found to my bags. I would not do something that endangers lives, I would talk to Bahn personell. Maybe there are options. like with a courir etc…

[@tapiolankiira1968]

Maybe 4 times out of 5 that I have used those 3oomk/h trains in Germany, I have seen tall slender gentleman, who have pickoted, taken luggage, and once even violin at the train. He took something from Me at first time, but not afterwards, as I was awere. He must be known of the staff, it could not be going for years othervise

[@B.Ies_T.Nduhey]

It IS possible to buy a ticket on the train, for 5€ extra. Which is a shame. In the olden days, it was no problem at all, and the attendants did have to carry purses then, and had no handscanners.

[@MiTheMer]

That really sounds like a big loophole though where everyone only pays if they are caught, lol.

[@derradfahrer5029]

Is is actually not possible anymore since 2022 at least on ICE trains. But you can still buy a (flex) ticket via the app, up to 10min after your departure.

[@Guy-Zero]

@@MiTheMer You would need to go up to that person at the beginning of your journey and request to buy a ticket. If they notice you dont have a ticket when they check you, they aren't gonna let you buy a normal ticket and get away with it. Only if you are really lucky, can explain why you forgot or something and the attendant is really nice but usually you would be fined.

[@artemis_fowl44hd92]

@@Guy-Zero Yeah, they'll also be nicer usually if you can show that you did try to find one, but couldn't (happened to my mother once...)

[@buck6365]

@@MiTheMer This is (was?) only possible on long distance trains, where distances between stops are long and you are very unlikely not to be checked.

[@KonradKeck]

OK, love it! Just wanted to share something I remembered from a few years ago. There was a train leaving Hamburg-Harburg, and a Polish guy, probably a senior, gave in to his craving for a cigarette. He saw the train doors closing but still jumped on, holding tight to the rubber connectors between the carriages, and ended up starting the journey of his lifetime. Next stop: Hannover. I wanted to look it up since this happened just a few years ago, and I didn’t want to spam the channel with a false memory 🤪. But guess what? I found a story about a 42-year-old smoker who, afraid of losing his kids, jumped onto a train at Hamburg's main station in the summer of 2019. Then in May 2023, a 39-year-old took a smoke break in Heide (Holstein) and hopped on his regional train for a 10 km ride. And from Bielefeld (basically out of nowhere), a 59-year-old man traveled 25 km between the compartments of an ICE train in September 2017. And those are just the cases I found in northern Germany in the past few years-all within 5 minutes of searching. So, after "Don’t drink and drive," maybe it’s time for "Smoking is risky, especially on train rides"!

[@kpanic23]

Thanks for getting that song stuck in my head at the end…

[@Quark0611]

Sank ju for travelling wiz Deutsche Bahn!!

[@herrmeistermann2426]

So no more train surfing? Anyways, impressive as the train passes through a few tunnels on it's way from Ingolstadt.

[@odess4sd4d]

It would seem justified to search his baggage.

[@suspiciousafternoon]

Doing stupid things just because you're addicted to smoking. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@VotasBird]

0:00 Why, thank you

[@aaron2339]

Thank you you are also very intelligent :)

[@feynstein1004]

You could say he was Hungary for punishment 😉

[@ArmandoBellagio]

So he didn't have a ticket at all or just not for the whole distance he travelled?

[@ZakkWyldeman]

fare-dodging in hungarian is "blitzelni". Nothing more Hungarian than that unless smoking everywhere. XD and btw ppl (kids specially) in Hungary travelled like so at the bumper of the tram (strassenbahn) till like the 70's

[@oPlazmaMC]

I mean those trams only go with like 60km/h. Not that Hungarian trains today went much faster

[@pootispiker2866]

Least obtrusive smoker

[@PHAD-rf3oe]

In India, Pakistan, etc. this is the preferred way of traveling 😂

[@ChrisWar666]

Lol, the guy didn't even pay? Eejit!!!

[@Qexilber]

No, Deutsche Bahn lost and found is actually TERRIBLE! I went there, 'cause I had lost my hat, and these dumb asses did NOTHING. They were just mocking me, yes mocking me, trying to convince me it was actually still on my head. What poor service! Will never go there again. Lucky that I discovered later, I seem to have had an identical hat at home still so it wasn't that bad of a loss. Funny thing is: I can't for the life of me remember when and where I have bought the second one ... 😉😆

[@Shadowguy456234]

"Some of you at least know one person who would benefit from watching this video" - Alter, I'm originally from the US...

[@salopiansessions8326]

Not having a ticket has a worse punishment than what he did?

[@atomictransfusion]

i'm not extraordinarily intelligent

[@stroke_of_luck]

@@atomictransfusion the fact that you think that you aren’t shows that you are

[@artemis_fowl44hd92]

Yes, you're very extraordinarily intelligent ^^

[@hubertbreidenbach]

Debatable, because you are extraordinarily modest.

[@Stan542]

It just kept getting worse and worse oh my god😭😭😭

[@ice401557]

He wasn't a fool, he was way too smart! 😀 He remembered a train which stopped in Ingolstadt for a cigarette break. Okay, that was the München-Nürnberg regional express, nevermind... 😀 (Or at least years ago these trains made a longer halt there to let the ICE's pass) Few years after the 9/11 terrorist attack I lost one of my bags in front of Erfurt Hauptbahnhof in a LeCrobag (the station was undergoing a major overhaul). I realized it in Nordhausen so I had to go back. When I found a pack of policemen to ask them if they have found it, they were sent right at that time to check an unaccompanied bag in the LeCrobag. It was still there after four hours! 😀

[@Arturino_Burachelini]

So he did a ground version of the Mission Impossible flight... 🤔

[@casualmouse4464]

This is one of the goofiest news stories ive ever heared

[@MeneerEnMevrouwTrein]

Isn't smoking itself also illegal in German stations?

[@NotScammerEE]

It depends on the station

[@Wulfstrex]

Not entirely, there are dedicated Areas to smoke in, usually within a yellow Square and an Ashtray in it's Middle.

[@whohan779]

@Wulfstrex This fact even has a dedicated announcement „Das Rauchen am Bahnsteig ist nur in den gekennzeichneten Raucherbereichen gestattet.“ (”Smoking on the platform is only permitted [with]in the designated smokers' areas.“)

[@namibjDerEchte]

I wish; it won't even get you a temp ban from the station as long as you put it out when caught and told.

[@_jpg]

Should be, but most smokers don't appear to care. It's more likely to encounter a smoker right next to the sign explicitly forbidding it 😅

[@LS-Moto]

I have done some train surfing in my younger years. I've never done it on an ICE, but I did do it on an IC, where I jumped onto a small platform on the real engine. There was a reiling so I was able to hold on comfortably. Of course today I don't do that anymore and do not recommend anyone to do that.

[@AlessAbreu]

I hate when that happens to me.

[@EElgar1857]

That must have been the fastest DB journey of 2024 or 2025! If I'd been on the train, it would have suddenly ended its run in Ingolstadt. 😁

[@notroll1279]

Oh, they may be late, but they are still pretty fast on their high speed sections.

[@EElgar1857]

@@notroll1279 True, and I think the ICE is the most beautiful class of train I've ever been on.

[@MIGBMWLOVER]

what? how? why??

[@leventebotos6927]

I just love being hungarian🇭🇺

[@joaovitormatos8147]

Not that stupid, I'd probably do similar things to avoid contacting DB

[@jamesalles139]

did he want to keep it for himself?

[@l3p3]

*DUMM- KOPF 2025 Dash exists.

[@rewboss]

It would be a hyphen, not a dash. And I did originally put one in, but it looked terrible. In any case, the fact that this trophy uses a "Deppenleerzeichen" is actually completely appropriate, wouldn't you say?

[@frankfurtrob866]

This being Germany no one got a video!

[@RTSFan1337]

Please photoshop your face into inhumane anatomy to perfeclty match mr beast's thumnail style. Jk, nice video.

[@fanatlarge]

If he had no ticket I wonder how he avoided control, they usually check after each stop. He must have spent a lot of time at the toilet.

[@joachimfrank4134]

If the train went Munich to Hamburg, Ingolstadt would have been the first stop. So only one check to dodge. The next stop would be Nueremberg.

[@SomePotato]

Not really. You can take trips from one end of the country to another without being checked.

[@fanatlarge]

@@joachimfrank4134 Ok, da habe ich nicht aufgepasst.

[@fanatlarge]

@@SomePotato Echt? Meine Erfahrungen sind eher gegenteilig, aber ich fahre auch nicht sehr oft.

[@phosphoros60]

Is it April fool's already?

[@Tudsamfa]

Everyone should know that "obtaining services under false pretences" is a charge very selectively applied, children, executives and workers will get the "fare evasion" fine from time to time but that will be it. The "false pretences" charge on the other hand is just used to bully undesirables. You don't want to know how many homeless people rot in prison for something that *NEVER* should be more than a fine. Luckily, since prisons don't care who pays the bail most of the time, you can donate to get them out and contribute to society again.

[@OnisanT]

The sad thing is that was one of the easy things that the Ampel government had already agreed on. They wanted to change the law, so it’s only a misdemeanour. But it’s one of the many things they didn’t get around to over all the infighting.

[@B.Ies_T.Nduhey]

Anfang: SCHLEIMER!! 😆

[@lordrindfleisch1584]

Acctually 🤓👆, your thumbnail shows an ICE 4, and yet you claim that the train went 282 km/h. The ICE 4 can go no faster than 265. Severe clickbait, that is!

[@Fry_tag]

282km/h would point towards class 403/406, 407 or 408. Class 401 and 402 are limited to 280 km/h.

[@Quark0611]

A picture is just a picture.

[@igel9316]

​@@Fry_tagYeah, 401/402 are very unlikely, since they usually only go up to 250. Also, they don't accelerate very fast, so it's unlikely they'd be able to reach 282 in the time it took to reach the driver.

[@ft4709]

All reports are quite a bit dubious. The vast majority of services stopping in Ingolstadt are operated by ICE 2, 4 or T. So 280 kph max. The ever reliable “Bild“ reports it to have been ICE 786, which would mean the reported speed must be greatly exaggerated as that’s an ICE 4 service, limited to 265 km/h. Other sources claim it to have been ICE 584 which consists of two ICE 2 sets. This is slightly more plausible, as the coupling forms a spot to hold onto and that train would reach 280 kph on that service. Maybe it slightly overshot, which isn’t unheard of. However, ICE 584 arrived at Nürnberg with a delay of only two minutes that day. Sounds pretty much impossible considering the additional stop in Kinding. So I‘m seriously baffled as to what transpired there. Seems to me as though someone maybe fabricated parts of the story to make it sound more dramatic. Not that it makes this man‘s actions any bit less dangerous.

[@Martin-su7nf]

@@ft4709 Ich glaube echt, dass es der 786 war, vielleicht ist der Abweichend mit anderem ICE gefahren... es ist der einzige Zug, der 40 Minuten gebraucht hat zwischen 12-16 Uhr... es geht außerdem nicht um die Kupplung, sondern die Kabel, die zwischen jedem Wagen gespannt sind, theoretisch (und praktisch anscheinend) kann man darauf stehen.

[@AZAD_420]

gud

[@kemi242]

I'm Hungarian. A shame on my country (not only because of that guy).

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Like Granville I am only part Hungarian. (I'm Hungry!) 😜😁

[@SomePotato]

Being an ICE, you can be certain that double the fare is more than €60. But fare-dodging as a criminal offense should be abolished. We are, for the most part, throwing people in jail for being poor.

[@_jpg]

You might see a difference between "being poor" and "consciously using a service you did not pay for".

[@Melissa0774]

He was that concerned about losing his luggage? Did he not know he can contact the lost and found service? Did he have a mental disability or something?

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Germans used to make "Polish Jokes" in my long past travelling days. Do they now make 'Hungarian Jokes?"

[@jamesryan8648]

Hey, you made a video shitting on tourists who go to Germany and are interested in their geneological history. It was dripping with arrogance. Just wanted to say, you are completely tone deaf. You should google "luxembourg" and " WW2 nazi propaganda posters". Seems Germans were pretty interested in telling the diaspora that they were german about three generations ago. Just wanted to say cheers and that you should stick to your mundane videos talking about shitville railstations.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

"Nurse! Nurse!"

[@eviltoe7432]

Haha, well that will be a story he'll tell for the rest of his life

[@paolagrando5079]

I wonder how much long he will live having this kind of ideas.