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Anonymous · Posted: Sat December 16, 2006 Post subject: Is this Hobo?

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LONDON - A drunken businessman who fell asleep on a railway track causing rush hour disruption was sentenced to 180 hours’ community service on Friday.

Network Rail staff took half an hour to try and wake company director Kevin Craswell after he passed out on a line near Epsom, southern England, last March after drinking a large amount of vodka.

Video pictures taken by a police helicopter showed him using the track as a pillow with a train passing near his head on another line.

Rail services were disrupted for about four hours during the afternoon rush hour.

Craswell, 48, from Ashtead in Surrey, was given an 18 months’ community order in addition to the community service and ordered to pay $1,090 in compensation (560 pounds) at Redhill magistrates.

He had pleaded guilty last month to “obstructing the railway by neglect.”

Anonymous · Posted: Sat December 16, 2006 Post subject:

That doesn't sound exactly like Hobo.

Hobo · Posted: Sat December 16, 2006 Post subject:

Wow, I must have been really drunk that night, or was hoping the train would put me out of my misery. Laughing

Since it was a 48 year old business man it couldn't have been me. If it had been a 21 year old guy who looked like a intoxicated bum, it might have been me on a drunken holiday in London.