Train misses drunken teen napping on track | Oddly Enough | Reuters: "PARIS (Reuters) - A drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed as a high-speed train roared over him, police said.
The 19-year old, whose name was not released, remained fast asleep face down on a stretch of track near Saint Nolff in southern Brittany, as the Quimper to Paris train passed, leaving only a few grease stains on the back of his jacket.
The driver saw the body lying on the tracks and slammed on the brakes, but was only able to stop a few hundred meters further on.
'It was his unconscious state that saved him really, as he lay there completely still like a dead body,' said a spokesman for the local police force, adding that the clearance under the train is only around 20 centimeters."
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