Train passengers on roof hit with brooms drenched in putrid gunge

By METRO WEB REPORTER – 6th February, 2012

Indonesia has shunned more modern technology in favour of a number of bizarre methods to deter passengers from clambering onto train roofs, which many do to get some air, because they cannot afford a ticket, or just for kicks.

Journeys up on top of the vehicles are increasingly resembling a deadly game show, with paint guns, sniffer dogs, concrete balls and Muslim clerics all brought out to deter these ‘rail surfers’ in the past.

Brooms covered in putrid gunge are now to be installed at choose crossings, with Ahmad Sujadi, of the state-run railway PT Kereta Api Indonesia, promising that the sensation of being hit by one of the contraptions will be ‘like a whip’.

He said: ‘Some people state it’s inhumane, but that is fine. Because letting them ride on the roofs is even more inhumane.’

The most successful method of getting roof surfers back into carriages has so far been the grapefruit-sized concrete balls, which are suspended on chains from a football goal-like frame.

Passengers on the roof quickly realised that they could be hit on the head by the deadly devices, and retreated to the safety of the train.

Buoyed with the success of these medieval contraptions, the rail company will soon start installing the gunge brooms along the line linking the capital Jakarta and the West Java town of Bogor from today.

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