Man jumps on to moving high-speed train
He had a heated argument with the train conductor, Austrian tabloid Heute said.The service from Zurich, Switzerland, to Vienna arrived with a seven minute delay, a spokesman for Australian rail (OBB) told AFP news agency."It is irresponsible, this kind of thing usually ends up with someone dying," he said.The man has been arrested.A similar incident occurred in January in Germany when a passenger - this time a fare-dodger - clang to the outside of a German high-speed train.The man, a Hungarian national, told police he had left his luggage on the train during his cigarette break and did not want to be parted from it.
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