Stubborn camel refuses to move off Delhi- Mumbai railway track for 3 hours

In a slightly strange turn of events, it turns out that Aamir Khan’s nude-ish poster for PK wasn’t the only exciting thing to happen on a railway track last week. Mr. Khan’s thunder seems to have been stolen by none other than a camel that decided that it would live on the edge on Friday.

The badass camel decided to bring in the weekend by hanging out on the tracks on the Delhi-Mumbai trunk rail route for three hours straight, delaying eight trains by almost three hours. As reported by Times of India, the camel halted trains over a distance of about 14 km, in Karauli district’s Hindaun City.

A goods train was the first to bear the brunt of the stubborn animal; the motorman braked when he saw the animal on the tracks. However, even blaring horns or physically trying to steer the camel away didn’t quite help. It wandered off only when it decided to take a little stroll, allowing the goods train to move off. An Amritsar-Mumbai train wasn’t as lucky, though, because the camel had returned to base. Maybe it had decided that being on the tracks was more fun than being off them.

“The train crew did everything, from blaring the horn from close quarters to trying to physically push it aside. Even passengers came out to help the poor train guard in the dark, but the camel refused to budge,” Prabhu Singh, a train crew member told Times of India.

By then, train schedules obviously went haywire, and the station masters of Mahaveerji and Hindaun instructed motormen of trains on the route to move at a maximum speed of 5 km per hour. This three-hour long saga finally came to an end, when the camel decided to call it a night at 11.45 pm.

What did this particular camel had had for lunch to display such copious amounts of bravery?

Was it the world’s most badass camel, or just a depressed, suicidal one? In any case, looks like Aamir Khan and this camel have put the days of reciting ‘Piggy on the railway line’ far behind us.