Indonesian Rail officials unveiled their latest campaign to try and stamp out train surfing passengers, concrete balls suspended from custom made bridges. Train surfers, also known as Atappers or Roofers are usually fare dodgers or thrill seekers looking to escape the over populated carriages.
A spokesperson for the rail company told the press, “We’ve tried just about everything, even putting rolls of barbed wire on the roof, but nothing seems to work. Maybe this will do it.”
The first set of concrete balls were fitted near a station just outside of the city of Jakarta, but it was later revealed that the fitters had made the chains too short meaning that there was a sizable gap between to top of the train and the concrete balls.
One 27 year old train surfer believes that this new campaign won’t be effective, he said, “They’ve tried everything to keep us from riding, but in the end we always win.”
Rail officials hope that this new campaign will be a success, and if so will be rolled out to other parts of the country.
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