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That looks expensive...
« on: January 15, 2013, 06:04:12 PM »
Early this morning (15th), a cleaner stole a train outside Stockholm and took it for a joyride. It eventually came to a complete stop...right into someone's living room :O.








Fortunatly, no one was killed or injured except for the woman who stole it. Lotsa bones broken...
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2013, 06:19:17 PM »
That will buff right out.
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2013, 06:23:40 PM »
Figures it was a woman. Couldn't even steer a train...
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2013, 06:35:53 PM »
A train-jacking?  That doesn't even happen here in Detroit!

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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2013, 07:30:56 PM »
Figures it was a woman. Couldn't even steer a train...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Man, you have guts to post that on a public forum....... :laugh:
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2013, 07:45:59 PM »
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Man, you have guts to post that on a public forum....... :laugh:

More like just too dopey to know better.
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2013, 07:54:09 PM »
That track is damn close to those houses.
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2013, 07:55:02 PM »
So did they have a high speed train chase?  Did they follow it with a helicopter to make sure it didn't lose them?
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2013, 08:08:46 PM »
That track is damn close to those houses.
Yep. Apparently it's a feature rather than a bug, considering the prices of those apartments.
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2013, 09:09:53 PM »
Figures it was a woman. Couldn't even steer a train...

You talk about women like that? I guess they don't call you "Fistful" for nuthin'......  :rofl: [popcorn]
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« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2013, 10:10:10 PM »
Yep. Apparently it's a feature rather than a bug, considering the prices of those apartments.

How much per month?
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2013, 11:50:05 PM »
Tough crowd. Can't even get my bros to back me up.
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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2013, 12:45:05 AM »
Tough crowd. Can't even get my bros to back me up.

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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2013, 01:04:45 AM »
You da man.
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2013, 03:03:38 AM »
How much per month?
They're not rentals, they're what referred to here as "bostadsrätt". You don't buy the apartment as such, you buy a share in the association owning the building(s) (which you can later sell to someone else when you want to move), which also gives you the right to live in one of the apartments. A monthly fee will often need to be paid for upkeep (exceptions may apply for buildings say in the middle of say Stockholm, where the ground floors can often be for commercial use, thus providing income for the association from rentals). I saw the asking price of one of those apartments in the building right next to it - 14 million krona. More than 2 million dollars. And that's the opening bid...
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« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2013, 04:49:44 AM »
Aha!  We call them cooperatives (for short, a coop, but sometimes with the apostrophe, as in co-op).  Current residents get to vote on admitting any new resident.

I guess the "feature" aspect comes from the European way of looking at public transportation and providing it as convenient, reliable, and taking you just about anywhere you want to go, as popposed to the American plan for moving the lowest of the drone classes from their hovels to the salt mines and back again without exposing them to the aristocracy.

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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2013, 08:01:40 AM »
How do you get a train to turn off the tracks?  Was it just too fast or is it some weird case of ice forming across the tracks?
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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2013, 09:34:33 AM »
How do you get a train to turn off the tracks?  Was it just too fast or is it some weird case of ice forming across the tracks?
From what I've understood, it hasn't turned off the tracks - it's the end station, and those apartments are very close to where the tracks end. Someone estimated the train travelled maybe 25-30 meters off the tracks after it plowed right off them, through the stopper-thingy at the end.
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« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2013, 12:24:38 PM »
I see, so the lesson is don't build your house behind a stop sign.
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Re: That looks expensive...
« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2013, 01:05:53 PM »
But the view is simply magnificent! :laugh:
Even moreso now for one family. :rofl:
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« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2013, 01:40:36 PM »
I see, so the lesson is don't build your house behind a stop sign.

There are some locations with homes built that you really scratch your head and wonder at the logic.

Out in the mountains there is a nice house built in the "U" of a fairly steep, large switchback of the road.
I can't quite comprehend how they have not had a car crash through the roof yet...
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2013, 01:54:10 PM »
Where we're going, we don't need any tracks  =D
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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2013, 02:17:00 PM »
Where we're going, we don't need any tracks  =D

I guess she didn't quite make it to 88 miles per hour.
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« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2013, 02:40:30 PM »
I guess she didn't quite make it to 88 miles per hour.

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« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2013, 02:50:11 PM »
This thread is going off the tracks.
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