Train Roof Riders

senorwipesalot · 06-02-2012 07:46PM #1

Indonesia has come up with a bizarre plan to stop commuters riding on the roofs of trains – hit them with brooms drenched in putrid gunge.

“For anyone who is still up there, it’ll be like a whip,” said Ahmad Sujadi, of the state-run railway, PT Kereta Api Indonesia. The contraptions will be installed at select crossings.

Indonesia has tried just about everything to prevent passengers from clambering on to the roofs of trains which criss-cross its main island of Java, spraying them with paint guns, calling in sniffer dogs, and asking for help from Muslim clerics.

But it wasn’t until last month that one of their tactics actually worked.

In a few places along the track, grapefruit-sized concrete balls have been suspended on chains from a frame that looks like a soccer goal.

“Rail surfers”, realising they could be knocked in the head or even killed, quickly called it quits.

Buoyed by the success, railway officials decided to try the brooms as well.

They will start setting them up along the line linking the capital, Jakarta, and the West Java town of Bogor from today.

Mr Sujadi said he was unmoved by criticism of all the strange and strict security measures.

“Some people say it’s inhumane, but that’s fine,” he said. “Because letting them ride on the roofs is even more inhumane.”

Hundreds have climbed on to the roofs of trains in the past because they want to escape overcrowded carriages, cannot afford the price of a ticket, or, simply, because it is more fun.

But dozens are killed or injured every year, falling off the train or being electrocuted by the power lines above.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/train-roof-riders-to-be-hit-with-brooms-in-indonesia-538765.html#ixzz1ld04Qsls
A spokesman from Iarnrod Eireann said they would be monitoring the situation closely and may introduce a pilot scheme on the Dart.

My name is URL · 06-02-2012 07:54PM

Those crazy Indonesians.. What tomfoolery will they get up to next?

Chuck Stone · 06-02-2012 08:13PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Those crazy Indonesians.. What tomfoolery will they get up to next?

And tomfoolery inexorably leads to blackguarding and before you know it they've trained monkeys to use AK47's and all hell breaks loose.

Junior Jacon Jeese Jurger · 06-02-2012 08:15PM

They should of just built a bridge. Like in cartoons

token101 · 06-02-2012 08:15PM

Blast em with piss eh. I wish they'd use it on the Cork buses. Some of the knacks could use a wash.

MickySticks · 06-02-2012 08:16PM

senorwipesalot wrote: »

“For anyone who is still up there, it’ll be like a whip,” said Ahmad Sujadi, of the state-run railway

Oh Matron

Seachmall · 06-02-2012 08:17PM

realising they could be knocked in the head or even killed

Are these things mutually exclusive now?

Good to know.

senorwipesalot · 06-02-2012 08:27PM

They used paint guns,sniffer dogs and muslim clerics.
Now they"ve resorted to sh1tty sticks.

TeddyTedson · 06-02-2012 09:06PM

senorwipesalot wrote: »

Indonesia has come up with a bizarre plan to stop commuters riding on the roofs of trains – hit them with brooms drenched in putrid gunge.

“For anyone who is still up there, it’ll be like a whip,” said Ahmad Sujadi, of the state-run railway, PT Kereta Api Indonesia. The contraptions will be installed at select crossings.

Indonesia has tried just about everything to prevent passengers from clambering on to the roofs of trains which criss-cross its main island of Java, spraying them with paint guns, calling in sniffer dogs, and asking for help from Muslim clerics.

But it wasn’t until last month that one of their tactics actually worked.

In a few places along the track, grapefruit-sized concrete balls have been suspended on chains from a frame that looks like a soccer goal.

“Rail surfers”, realising they could be knocked in the head or even killed, quickly called it quits.

Buoyed by the success, railway officials decided to try the brooms as well.

They will start setting them up along the line linking the capital, Jakarta, and the West Java town of Bogor from today.

Mr Sujadi said he was unmoved by criticism of all the strange and strict security measures.

“Some people say it’s inhumane, but that’s fine,” he said. “Because letting them ride on the roofs is even more inhumane.”

Hundreds have climbed on to the roofs of trains in the past because they want to escape overcrowded carriages, cannot afford the price of a ticket, or, simply, because it is more fun.

But dozens are killed or injured every year, falling off the train or being electrocuted by the power lines above.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/train-roof-riders-to-be-hit-with-brooms-in-indonesia-538765.html#ixzz1ld04Qsls
A spokesman from Iarnrod Eireann said they would be monitoring the situation closely and may introduce a pilot scheme on the Dart.

HAHA, You're taking the piss....aren't you?

AnonoBoy · 06-02-2012 09:17PM

But where else are you going to have a dramatic fist fight or battle the baddie's number 1 henchman's helicopter armed with nothing more than a crowbar and some explosive chewing gum if not the roof of a train?

bnt · 06-02-2012 11:21PM

It was a major problem in South Africa a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvRk-0DFvAU

Inches away from high voltage lines. There was a video out there of a kid grabbing on to one of them: bang, dead in a millisecond.

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