Betting on Brazil requires Train-ing

I love trains. I love how you can walk around on them, stare out the window, listen to music, talk, read, completely forget about navigation and still arrive via the most direct route available. I love how there aren’t any seatbelts and how everyone around you is traveling to the exact same place. It is often, especially during June and July in Germany, an instant community.

But I don’t love trains as much as a guy from France, who apparently rode one 686 km from Paris to London and back to place a 10,000 Euro bet on Brazil to win the World Cup.

It’s just a bit excessive considering that he could have placed the bet on the Internet.

Now I’m no technology genius, the sight of an unfamiliar microwave often incites a deep anxiety and requires several minutes of intense study, but it doesn’t get much easier than finding a World Cup betting site.

Step 1: Google betting site.
Step 2: Place bet.
Step 3: Naptime.

Maybe the guy figures that Brazil is such a lock to win that if he didn’t make the journey himself it would be easy come, easy go, for his winnings; trying to avoid the fate of the Swiss businessman who lost 400,000 pounds when the USA equalized against Italy. Maybe he’s just trying to invest a little more of himself to increase the reward of watching each game.

Or maybe he just really likes trains.