You'd think he'd have been more cautious with this second chance he'd been given, but you'd also be wrong. So he was back railroading again doing the job that he loved. And so it came to pass that our engineer was let go.Īnd for whatever reason, he got his job back! Well in that nation, the law of the land states that if a man somehow survives being put to death, they must be set free. but our train jockey instead rose from the chair looking more like he got a stiff massage, rather than be put to death! The warden hit the switch, lights flickered, and the crackle of electricity could be heard for over a minute. "The warden will grant you a feast and all you want is that?"Īfter he downed the fruit, he was strapped into the electric chair an hour later. "Just a single banana?" said the perplexed guard. Punishment came swift, unlike most places, and 3 days after sentencing the former railroader was asked for his last meal. Months later there was a trial and he was found guilty of manslaughter in the highest degree, a capital offence in that land, and sentenced to die by electric chair. He backed off the throttle and braked as much as he could, managing to only have one fatality out of 500 passengers on his train. One day however, he wasn't so lucky and came round a bend too fast and derailed his train. He prided himself on the fact that he could bend the rules and speed through curves and grades that made other motormen shiver and back off. He was a wiz behind the controls of the train, and commanded the 15 car vehicle effortlessly as if he had been born to do the job. It could be a very dull job to some, but as the old saying goes, one man's trash is another's gold he wanted to be a railroad man since he was a boy. There once was a man who had a job driving a passenger train between two large towns.
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