A U.K. metro train overran stop blocks at a station outside Rotterdam. But tragedy was averted due to… art. Not a guy named “Art”, (not “Ishmael”) but an actual piece of art resembling a whale’s tail.
The train has been left balancing 30 feet above ground on the plastic tail of a whale sculpture keeping the train from plunging into the water below.
Thankfully there were no passengers onboard and the engineer was able to free himself without injury.
Talk about an endowment from the arts.
