News site issues a retraction...

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fake

 

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Keep reading, someone posted a link to the original article


halfway down this page:
http://dizzy-girl.net/?p=665

 

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fake or not that is a pretty funny retraction.

 

[olds]

Gollum Joker Rail Horror
By JAMIE PYATT

LORD Of The Rings fan Julian Brooker was electrocuted on a rail line while imitating his favourite character Gollum.

The 23-year-old scampered about on all fours like the 4ft hobbit and then pretended to touch a live track to impress his boozy friends.

But Julian accidentally DID touch the 750-volt third rail.

His horrified pals watched as a bolt of electricity blew him 15ft in the air and turned into a fireball.

Tragedy struck after he and pals spent a night drinking on the beach near his Brighton home on October 23 last year.
Friend Eva Natasha wept as she told an inquest how they went to London Road station at 4am and began playing ?the Gollum game?.

She described how sales assistant Julian clambered from the platform on to the line.

She said: ?He touched a rail and pretended to be electrocuted. I didn?t find it funny, but assumed he knew what he was doing.

?Then he touched the live rail once. He wouldn?t have touched it if he had known it was live.?

Locals heard Julian?s pals screaming and dialled 999 but he was certified dead at the scene.

Yesterday?s hearing was told Julian often got on all fours and pretended he was the evil character from the hit movie trilogy.

Tragic ? Julian

Mum Vivienne Chauhan said: ?It was a game from Lord Of The Rings. He was always larking about. He?d do it in the house and say he was ?off creeping?.?

East Sussex coroner Veronica Hamilton-Deeley was also told Brooker was a keen numerologist obsessed with the number 23 and went drinking on that date every month.

Verdict: Accidental death.