As Urban Legend
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In an urban legend that has been making the rounds since at least the mid-1960s, the decision must be made by a drawbridge keeper who must choose between sacrificing a passenger train or his own four-year-old son. There is a 2003 Czech film Most or The Bridge (USA) which deals with a similar plot. This version is often drawn as a deliberate allegory to the Christian belief that God sacrificed his son, Jesus of Nazareth.
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