Goofballs! To each his own I guess.
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All the makings for a story that would rival humpty dumpty!
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| Posted by on September 16, 2007 | |
Let's hope this doesn't become a fad on BART!
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| Posted by GB Jeff on September 16, 2007 | |
Is this really a fad or is it the only way for people to get to their jobs if they have to choose between buying a ticket or feeding their families?
Not a political statement, I just really don't know the answer.
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| Posted by lumpum on September 16, 2007 | |
Look up "trainsurfing" on youtube.com and watch the idiots! This is a leisure activity they do. Kind of sad when someone gets electrocuted or falls off the train though....yeah right!
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1. There's no way to get into - or onto - a train without going to a station to board it, since stops outside stations do happen but are not scheduled. And commuters need a ticket to be even allowed onto the platform, since tickets are usually not examined on board - it's just not practical.
2. It is possible to get onto many platforms without a ticket, and therefore to board a train without one, but since there's no way that any passenger's ticket can be examined on board in peak hours anyway, there's still no need to ride outside, even without a ticket. Even less need to get onto the roof!
3. Spectators often sit in open doors (forced open) to encourage "surfers". Also, "surfers" often swing out from the opened doors, actually running on the ballast while hanging onto the centre pole in the doorway.
So, as I said, it's a fad.
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Idiots, the whole world loves them...
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Just hope for their sake that the train doesn't get hit from behind by another one!
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Stupidity knows no bounds, international or otherwise. As for the BART comment, I doubt it would ever happen with BART police around, plus there really isn't much clearance between the top of the train and the roof of the tube, and there isn't much in the way of hand or foot holds on the sides of the trains. Not to mention you couldn't get to a BART train without going through a station, thereby needing either a ticket or a way around the station agent. I've heard this is all the rage in Chicago though!
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I've heard that People had tried this on the old style regional trains that ran down in the south of France on the SNCF line between Veltimliga, Italy and Marseille, France along the Cote D'Azur back in the summer of 2003.
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These people have to do this because Metro Rail doesn't run enough trains- the headway on each train- even during peak periods- is 25 minutes, the last time I timed a few days ago.
No, although we do have train surfurs here, these are not train surfers, just people trying to catch a train to work or home and a railway that decides to keep most of its train sets in the passenger yards.
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| Posted by 109web on October 9, 2009 | |
One of the most popular photos themed train in Poland :-)
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> The headway on each train- even during peak periods- is 25 minutes
Probably in no small part due to the fact that passengers regularly torch trains which break down, causing the remaining rolling stock to have to work harder and break down more often, causing more rolling stock to get torched.
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Plug em, and watch the morons fly!
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| Posted by --o- on April 1, 2011 | |
Monkey see, monkey do. . .
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| Posted by on November 13, 2013 | |
Even the headlight on the locomotive is not on!
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It shouldn't be - in the picture it's the taillight. The red marker light is located lower down and, of course, completely obscured here!
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| Posted by UP 6187 on December 29, 2014 | |
Does anyone know what the led lights that say 0537 signify?
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That (0537) is the train number.
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I just love all the previous assumptions that these are "train surfers" or they are trying to avoid buying a ticket. That is not the case at all. I saw the same thing in Calcutta. There is simply no more room inside for any more passengers, So they all get on any way they can. I'm not sure why other commenters actually believed they were doing this intentionally. You don't really know unless you've seen the situation for yourselves. I have.
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Humpty Dumpty was pushed...according to a bumper sticker my brother saw in Sydney, Australia 1978.
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