Headache awaits Indonesian train surfers

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Headache awaits Indonesian train surfers

Grapefruit-sized concrete balls are being mounted above railway lines to deter people from riding on top of commuter trainsIndonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains – hosing them down with red paint, appealing for help from religious leaders, and threatening them with dogs. Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic: suspending rows of grapefruit-sized concrete balls above railway lines a few centimetres above the tops of carriages at points where trains enter or pull out of stations, or where they go through crossings.