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    Indonesia's new barrier to deter train roof riders

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has come up with another bizarre plan to keep commuters from riding on the roofs of trains: Swat them with brooms drenched in putrid goop.

    Railway official Ahmad Sujadi says the contraptions will be installed at select crossings beginning Monday.

    Anyone still defying the roof-riding ban risks being "whipped."

    Indonesia has tried everything imaginable to keep passengers from clamoring to the roofs of the country's overcrowded trains, including spraying them with paint guns and calling in sniffer dogs.

    Last month, authorities dangled grapefruit-sized concrete balls from a frame above the tracks. Worried they'd be hurt or even killed, "rail surfers" finally called it quits.

    Sujadi decided it wouldn't hurt to try the broom idea too.

     

    9 comments

    • Mitt da GLASSLOOKER  •  Bremerton, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      Gee, maybe they could try running more trains? Just a thought......
    • Greg  •  Boston, Massachusetts  •  3 mths ago
      This isn't about over crowding on the trains. This is about a "free ride". I would charge a reduced rate to ride on the roof, plus a surcharge for the scenic view would balance out to full fare.
      • Agent 86 3 mths ago
        You have clearly never seen the trains in Jakarta. And they do not have the cars just to add a few more. India is not a lot different.
    • salmonella  •  3 mths ago
      LOL, Sweeping off the roaches!
    • SisyphusSyzygy  •  Kennewick, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      I'm just thankful we don't have that problem in Eastern Washington
    • Suit of Flames  •  3 mths ago
      Indonesia is a lawless scab country that deserves nothing less than to be nuked into oblivion while the world watches
      • Agent 86 3 mths ago
        You are a useless, ignorant oxygen thief the better part of whom went down mama's butt crack.
      • Stony 3 mths ago
        Indonesians are the oxygen thieves. They steal everything else too. You are just as bad as the stinking Filipinos and the Thais.
      • Agent 86 3 mths ago
        I am an American, SfB. You are clearly also a waste of se-men.
    • Stony  •  3 mths ago
      Indonesians already smell like putrid goop so that wont deter them. Go back to the concrete balls dangling. Those slopes need a good head whacker to knock sense into them.
    • happybee  •  3 mths ago
      The concrete balls with spikes in them would have been better.
    • canadian bacon  •  Tucson, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      #$%$........will be whipped...... sheez tough times......
    • Illiteracy_ iz_ kewl  •  Intercourse, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      Sounds like republicans on top of the evolution train.
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