In a rare incident at Cappa/Oshodi on Thursday, a moving train halted for a man who sat absent-mindedly on the rail track. The man sat while ignoring the blaring horns of the train.
The man, who looked untidy said he was on his way to Arena Shopping Complex when he lost N35,000. He said the shock of the loss numbed him so much he didn’t know what to do or where to go, so he sat with no care.
“I was on my way to Arena when I realised I had lost N35,000,” he said. Someone within the vicinity when the moving train halted said: “Even I could hear the train horn from a far distance.”
Eyewitnesses were surprised because it was unusual for a train in motion to stop abruptly. A passenger said, “I don’t want to witness what I did some few years ago in this same place – how a train smashed a man into smithereens right before me.”
The man has been handed to the policemen for onward evaluation.