Man Hops Trains, Nearly Freezes 40 Miles Later

An Alberta (Canada) man who decided to hop a freight train for a five-block ride home from a party nearly died when the train sped up and headed south out of town, with the man clinging to the rungs of a boxcar ladder. Jonathan Hambler, 29, survived after he dialed 911 in the -14°F. temperature. But he had to hang on to the rungs with no gloves for over an hour after dispatchers learned there were two trains headed south at nearly the same time. Canadian Pacific Railway dispatchers had the engineers blow their whistles so Hambler could tell which train he was on. Finally, the train slowed down and police located Hambler 43 miles south of Wetasklwin, nearly unconscious. He received a $268 tickets. Read more here.