Thomas Boersma So Drunk, He Doesn't Remember Being Hit By Freight Train: Cops

Sometimes you wake up and life kicks you in the butt. Other times, a freight train does.

Nobody knows that better than Thomas Boersma of Wisconsin, who allegedly got so drunk that he fell asleep on some train tracks and got hit in the butt.

Cops said Boersma was so sauced, he didn't even remember the incident.

The freight train's conductor told cops that he saw something on the rails near the Village of Pewaukee at about 3:30 a.m., and immediately slammed on the brake, according to the Living Lake Country Reporter.

Boersma, 31, was leaning against the rail with his back to the train. He didn't move a muscle.

The conductor found him lying on the gravel nearby, with a severe injury to his buttocks and left arm, WSAU reported. Shockingly, he refused medical attention.

Cops said they regularly find Boersma walking on the tracks, so they cited him for trespassing after the incident.

The train had reportedly been traveling at 48 mph when it struck him.

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Comments

[blodisnut]

03:48 PM on 05/06/2012

This is a lucky fugger..... When I was in High School, I witnessed an accident where 2 people were hit by an Amtrak The train left chicago 3 hours late, and this woman thought that when the gates went down, it was her commuter train.

She was rushing across the tracks, and got her ankle caught in the wooden platform where commuters crossed the tracks. The train was going 70mph, and hit the brakes. Sparks were flying, and it didnt seem to do anything. About 10 seconds before the collision, a good Samaritan jumped onto the tracks to save her, and SMACK.

She was cut in half, and he disintegrated. It was winter, so there was an eighth of a mile of red snow. The fire department was there within seconds(it was right around the corner) I got sick. I mean, I just saw a guy disappear in a mist of blood. I was in an ambulance sitting down on a cooler talking to a cop when a guy came in with a finger tip in a zip lock bag. He asked me to get up, and in the cooler were a bunch more ziplock bags with teeny body chunks. I lost it in the ambulance....

Sad thing, is I read later that the engineer of the train committed suicide after a train he was at the helm of hit and killed a couple more people.

Sad story.....

[Dasher2]

12:07 AM on 05/06/2012

Now that guy knows how to party!

[KIVPossum]

02:39 AM on 05/05/2012

Long long ago my roommate in the hospital was an aged alcoholic who lost both legs to a train. He was so out of it the nurses kept cheap beer on hand to give him a doze of alcohol on a regular basis to keep him from losing his mind. He never understood exactly what happened to him

[Dasher2]

12:01 AM on 05/06/2012

I'm ok now!

[rattlesnk]

11:23 PM on 05/04/2012

WOW..we had this happen to our family about 3 yrs ago my brother a life long alcoholic was walking home from a local bar and was stopped by a train decided to sit on the the rail that comes down to stop cars and lost his balance and fell into the train as it was passing by..he was found 2 hrs later and rushed to the hospital he survived but has never been the same...luck i guess..

[firewired]

11:13 PM on 05/04/2012

Severe buzz killer fo sho! What a rush!

[Jamie J Perkins]

10:35 PM on 05/04/2012

He has to be the luckiest man on earth! to get not only hit by a train and live with hardly any injuries but to not even have to have a nightmare of the incident cause he does not remember it happening at all!

[Gregor53]

09:39 PM on 05/04/2012

it is probably a good thing he was drunk and cannot remember. It would be nightmares for the rest of his life.

[Chad53916]

04:46 PM on 05/04/2012

I'm so proud of our state.

[Alex Luck]

05:09 PM on 05/04/2012

I'm guessing he's a Scott Walker supporter. Nobody else can still afford to get that hammered.

[caveredecorator]

01:41 PM on 05/04/2012

they slammed on the brakes and backed up 4 miles.

[caveredecorator]

01:33 PM on 05/04/2012

a severe buttox injury? oh no... na . . i'm not going to the hospital. i've had worse.

[MakingModeratorsWorkOT]

01:27 PM on 05/04/2012

Until the cops told him about the train incident, Mr. Boersma woke up with his hangover under the assumption he somehow wandered into the local gay bar at some point...

[caveredecorator]

01:36 PM on 05/04/2012

lol.. the engineer saw him leaning up against the rail? is he inch tall? lets have a look at that severe buttox injury. yep... you broke your butt.

[cactis]

12:58 PM on 05/04/2012

That's how Bawnie Frankfurter ran his responsibilities.

[sasweeney1]

12:01 PM on 05/04/2012

Trains can be a real pain in the ass for drunks.