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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2020-11-02 11:21 am

Momentary Break From Doomscrolling

An elevated train that derailed in Rotterdam was saved from falling by a giant sculpture of a whale’s tail, which is good news both for the driver who didn’t get hurt (there were no passengers aboard at the time), and also for headline writers: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/what-a-fluke-dutch-whale-tail-sculpture-catches-metro-train-1.5170640
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[personal profile] batwrangler 2020-11-02 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
That's practically out of a superhero story!
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[personal profile] sovay 2020-11-02 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
An elevated train that derailed in Rotterdam was saved from falling by a giant sculpture of a whale’s tail, which is good news both for the driver who didn’t get hurt (there were no passengers aboard at the time), and also for headline writers

I'm so glad to know about this.
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[personal profile] kore 2020-11-02 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought that was a whale's tail, but then thought I was just projecting that onto some machinery!
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[personal profile] readinggeek451 2020-11-02 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And the sculpture is titled "Saved by the Whale's Tail"!
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[personal profile] pedanther 2020-11-03 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
On the slack chatroom where I first the news, we got a bunch of people remarking that it was a fluke and one slightly more creative person suggesting that the driver got a cetacean.