"Godzilla" hit by train

[Bucky]

He didn't see it coming. With a belly full of food and sake, Armand Nelson Schneider just wanted to get rid of his nausea and empty his stomach before hopping on a train back to his study-abroad home in Yokohama, Japan. Schneider, 22, was throwing up over the platform when a high-speed commuter zoomed into the station and smashed into him.

"Here's where the miracle begins," said Schneider's mother, Audrey Nelson. Moments earlier, a "Japanese angel" had grabbed Schneider's left shoulder and pulled him just enough to the left to spare his head and save him from suffering neurological damage, Nelson said. "Had Armand not been pulled by his left shoulder, he would not be here," Nelson said about the March accident. The Boulder native fractured nine vertebrae and suffered severe liver and lung damage. He was kept in smallish beds in Japanese hospitals for eight weeks, struggled to communicate with the foreign doctors and risked becoming paralyzed on the flight home...more...

One lucky hombre.

[American Oyaji]

In this case, I believe luck had very little to do with it.

[Dragonette]

There's no denying I was very drunk," he said. "But I don't think the accident was caused by that."

Uh, say what?

Moments earlier, a "Japanese angel" had grabbed Schneider's left shoulder...
..."One minute I was at the party, the next I was in the hospital," he said. "I didn't know what to think when they told me I was hit by a train."

So then how does he know about the "Japanese angel" incident?
And while it's good to read that a J-guy or gal was actually pro-active instead of standing there gawking or taking a keitai video, are they sure the "angel" was Japanese?

To me, the real miracle is the $1000 total medical bill. If it happened here, he'd be paying for life.

[prolly]

"smallish beds"

[Level3]

The "angel" also removed him from eligibility for a Darwin Award.

残念！

[Coligny]

Originally Posted by prolly

"smallish beds"

Bullshit... Japanese hospital beds are 190 per 91. European standard sized. And build to outlast the planet. (at least mines are /circa 1975)

[sublight]

Drunken gaijin hit by train.

Doo-dah, doo-dah.

[Greji]

Originally Posted by Level3

The "angel" also removed him from eligibility for a Darwin Award.

残念！

He waz barfing in the trash can. It was probably the "angel" that shoved him north in front of the southbound....

Take, you haven't been hanging around the eki's again, have you?

[Kuang_Grade]

Originally Posted by Coligny

Bullshit... Japanese hospital beds are 190 per 91. European standard sized. And build to outlast the planet. (at least mines are /circa 1975)

190 cm would equal his height of 6 feet, 3 inches as stated in the article..Given most people like an inch or two of space from the head board, his feet would likely be over the edge a few cm, if he was fully stretched out

[Coligny]

Originally Posted by Kuang_Grade

190 cm would equal his height of 6 feet, 3 inches as stated in the article..Given most people like an inch or two of space from the head board, his feet would likely be over the edge a few cm, if he was fully stretched out

Maybe, but in France, standard mattress size is 140x190 for double bed. All mattress are this size, all springbox are this size, all bedsheets are this size. I'm sure there's a hidden police team in charge of enforcing this. Except for a few import king size beds, there is NO deviation whatsoever. In Japan... I have yet to find mattress that are the same size twice... It make for an interesting laundry day...