Gorgoroth: more powerful than a speeding locomotive.

So it lacks the obvious punchline of Miss Deaf Texas getting hit by a train, but this is still pretty sweet.

The metal gods were smiling on Jesse Maggrah. The 20-year-old man was walking beside railway tracks on Sunday, the Norwegian heavy metal band Gorgoroth cranked on his portable CD player, when he was hit by a freight train. Maggrah said he did hear the blast of the train horn just before he was hit.

"I tried to jump out of the way, but I guess not in time," he said yesterday from his bed at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. "It was just instant. I was just walking and then I was on the ground. I wasn't sure what happened. Then I saw the train stopping up ahead. I thought, 'Holy crap, dude, you just got hit by a train.' "

Yeah, holy crap, dude. The best part is the closing quote, though.

"Maybe the metal gods above were smiling on me and they didn't want one of their true warriors to die on them. Otherwise, I'd be up there in the kingdom of steel."

Party on, Garth. Somehow, the fact that he was listening to Gorgoroth makes the story doubly funny, to a degree because of pictures like these, but much more because of pictures like this.