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13-04-2006, 3:18 PM
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Who says the youth of day are not stupid?
Just got a call from the gf on her way home. As she drove under a bridge, she saw a young teenager hanging onto the rear of a tube train as it sped over the bridge!
Is it really worth risking your life to save on the underground fee?
Edit: Of course, i know it should say "Who says" and not "You Says"
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13-04-2006, 3:19 PM
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Just got a call from the gf on her way home. As she drove under a bridge..
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So she was using a mobile when driving? I hope she has hands free. 
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13-04-2006, 3:24 PM
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I lived in Indonesia for 1 year when I was younger. People used to sit on top and hang off the side of Buses and Trains. I did see someone fall off once, the bus was going round a corner and hit a pot hole. 
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13-04-2006, 3:26 PM
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Originally Posted by mjn
Just got a call from the gf on her way home. As she drove under a bridge, she saw a young teenager hanging onto the rear of a tube train as it sped over the bridge!
Is it really worth risking your life to save on the underground fee?
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The overcrowding on the trains is to blame.
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13-04-2006, 3:28 PM
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So she was using a mobile when driving? I hope she has hands free. |
Of course it was....and work even paid for it, and the fitting!
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13-04-2006, 3:28 PM
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i hope the teenager had hands free aswell
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13-04-2006, 3:31 PM
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Didn't train surfing used to be a craze in New York?
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13-04-2006, 4:33 PM
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Originally Posted by mjn
Just got a call from the gf on her way home. As she drove under a bridge, she saw a young teenager hanging onto the rear of a tube train as it sped over the bridge!
Is it really worth risking your life to save on the underground fee?
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I don't think penny-pinching or overcrowding had anything to do with it: he was doing this because it was dangerous, and he wanted the thrill of doing something dangerous (or possibly wanted to show off to someone by having them watch him do it).
Of course this is still equally stupid, regardless of his motivations.
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13-04-2006, 6:54 PM
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it is too hot on the tube.
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14-04-2006, 1:45 AM
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Some lads at my school used to do it on the back of double decker buses 
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14-04-2006, 8:56 AM
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I don't think penny-pinching or overcrowding had anything to do with it: he was doing this because it was dangerous, and he wanted the thrill of doing something dangerous (or possibly wanted to show off to someone by having them watch him do it).
Of course this is still equally stupid, regardless of his motivations.
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no sh*t, sherlock... 
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14-04-2006, 10:21 AM
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Would've been even better if the train stopped suddenly and he did a Garfield....
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14-04-2006, 10:44 AM
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He may have been a confused illegal immigrant.
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14-04-2006, 10:47 AM
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i rememebr about 14 years ago some kid in the year above me in secondary school decidided to climb the top of a train. and a spark literally jumped at him from the cable and fried him, poor kid died a few days later
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14-04-2006, 10:55 AM
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Yup.
However really dumb that sort of thing seems to us it is a shame that that child did not have the chance to learn from his mistake.
That said i throw myself out of planes and off of things with a rubber band attached to my feet with surprising regularity. Most of my family believe i am both stupid and old enough (35) to know better  .
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