Do Darwin Awards:
http://www.darwinawards.com/In the adjacent compartment people were talking noisily, so Mike lost his train of thought and absently tucked the newspaper under his arm. He overheard a pretty woman avidly describing a Russian lunatic...
The Russian believed his brain had psychic powers to stop vehicles 'dead' in their tracks. The woman laughed when she said, 'dead.' This man was not a garden lunatic, he was a famous mentalist by the name of E. Frenkel. Evidently he had started small--a bicycle here, an automobile there, the occasional streetcar. Methodically he went about determining the largest mass his brain could stop by sheer force of will.
The Russian psychic came to believe that he needed to put himself in mortal peril to find the upper limit. "In extraordinary conditions of a direct threat to my organism, all reserves will be called into action," and even the mass of a train could be deflected. With confidence, he tossed his briefcase aside and stepped onto the tracks, with arms raised, head lowered, and body tensed, he waited. The engineer was quick to apply the emergency brakes, but momentum took its unswerving course. As a child would know, a train is more than a match for a brain, and that fatal experiment was the end of the distinguished career of E. Frenkel. [REFERENCE: Train Of Thought]
This seemed farfetched to Mike. Why would the man toss his briefcase to the side? That fact didn't fit. He pulled out his phone and Blekko'd for news related to the topic. He found [one yellowed page on the net], a report that looked authentic and claimed to be from the Associated Press. Perhaps it was true, perhaps the mental case did psych himself out.
