WhiteBoard News for Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Horsens, The Netherlands (Berlingske Tidende):

A Danish man was stuck on the frozen roof of a house for two hours after his romantic encounter was interrupted by his lover's husband.

The naked man climbed through the bedroom window when he and his girlfriend heard her husband arrive unexpectedly at the house in Horsens.

The window lead on to the roof and the man was too scared to jump down so he was stuck for two hours in the middle of the night.

Berlingske Tidende reports the man was spotted by a neighbour who called the police.

Officers arrived instantly but needed help from the fire brigade to get the man, who was shaking with fear and cold, back on to the ground.

Neighbours said they did not know how the woman's husband reacted to the situation but described him as a muscular man with a quick temper.
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Fuji City, Japan (Independent Online):

An 82-year-old Japanese man who was too frail to jump out of the path of an oncoming train nonetheless survived by flattening himself between the tracks while the rail car passed over him, Tokyo police said.

Ichimatsu Matsui was taking a short cut alongside the tracks to his home in Fuji city, central Japan, when he heard a train coming up behind him, a Shizuoka state police spokesman said.

Matsui's legs were too weak to get him out of the way in time, so he decided to hit the ground instead, the official said.

Matsui emerged unscathed even though there was only about 35cm of space between the rails and the underbelly of the train, he said.

The driver had hit the emergency brakes 
The driver had hit the emergency brakes, but the one-car train skimmed past Matsui before coming to a stop about 20m down the line, he said.

The incident caused some delays on the Japan Railway Minobu line, he said.
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Anchorage, Alaska (AP):

Noel Fears and two friends were hungry, wet and cold after spending a sleepless night huddled under a space blanket in chest-deep snow in the Alaska Range. 

That's when they decided to burn the first snowmobile, he said. 

The second one went up in flames a few hours later, again for heat. The third became the signal fire that attracted help and saved the lives of Fears, 40, John Holtry, 27, and Shane Seurer, 25. 

It was a small price to pay, Fears said. 

The three friends became stranded after setting out from Fairbanks last Saturday. Driving in flat light, they ended up in a ravine where their snowmobiles mired down and the snow was too deep for them to make any headway. 

They went to sleep in 20 below zero temperatures. They woke up sopping wet and freezing, Fears said. 

"It was burn a snowmachine or die," he said. 

It put off a lot of black smoke for 90 minutes. At 9:30 a.m. Sunday, however, nobody was watching. They torched the second one about 2 p.m. 

Then Fears heard snowmobiles a few ridges over. "Burn it now!" he said of the last one. 

About 45 minutes later, Bill Pugh popped over the ridge with his son and a friend. The trio eventually got Fears and friends back to the highway. 
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San Carlos, Chile (Ananova):

A one-armed lifeguard has been named as one of the best in his job in Chile.

Francisco Aguilera Morales, 48, the official lifeguard of San Carlos Beach, lost his right arm above the elbow in a childhood accident.

But it hasn't stopped him working as a lifeguard for the last 14 years, and now he has now been singled out by Las Ultimas Noticias online as one of Chile's best.

Mr Morales, nicknamed The Wolf for his bravery, said: "I grab their neck with what's left of my right arm and swim back using the left arm.

"I have never let anyone drown. I have saved 22 people so far this year. Once I saved 13 people one by one, it took me two hours and I did all on my own. People applauded me."

Mr Morales lost his arm when he was five years old. His uncle found a grenade in a field and brought it home, where it exploded.
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