by Patrick Boylan
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Mbta fan wrote:Here's some good nonsense from up here in MA. Someone tried to surf a redline subway train by riding on the roof.There's a really cool video on YouTube showing a guy, in Europe someplace, train surfing. Pretty intense.....
I'll get the link to the story shortly
Edit: here's the link to the story. http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/29/ ... story.html
Don31 wrote:That was a man who had terminal cancer and made it a personal mission to ride on the back of the fastest ICE routes, and he used specialized equipment to do it safely.Mbta fan wrote:Here's some good nonsense from up here in MA. Someone tried to surf a redline subway train by riding on the roof.There's a really cool video on YouTube showing a guy, in Europe someplace, train surfing. Pretty intense.....
I'll get the link to the story shortly
Edit: here's the link to the story. http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/29/ ... story.html
25Hz wrote:Not the one I saw. It was two college kids, with no equipment at all.Don31 wrote:That was a man who had terminal cancer and made it a personal mission to ride on the back of the fastest ICE routes, and he used specialized equipment to do it safely.Mbta fan wrote:Here's some good nonsense from up here in MA. Someone tried to surf a redline subway train by riding on the roof.There's a really cool video on YouTube showing a guy, in Europe someplace, train surfing. Pretty intense.....
I'll get the link to the story shortly
Edit: here's the link to the story. http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/29/ ... story.html
beanbag wrote:We had one kid down in this area, I believe from Queens or so, who thought it would be a good idea to open up the emergency hatch on a double decker party bus and stick his head into the breeze.. unfortunately, a highway overpass was waiting for him.. head stuck out a 50 or 60 mile an hour party bus into the underside of a highway overpass, don't need to tell you how that one ended.Not even Advil would stop that headache, that's for sure....
Silverliner II wrote:Believe me, there wasn't a headache to stop in the first place, because it killed him.beanbag wrote:We had one kid down in this area, I believe from Queens or so, who thought it would be a good idea to open up the emergency hatch on a double decker party bus and stick his head into the breeze.. unfortunately, a highway overpass was waiting for him.. head stuck out a 50 or 60 mile an hour party bus into the underside of a highway overpass, don't need to tell you how that one ended.Not even Advil would stop that headache, that's for sure....
Mbta fan wrote:That's bad, did he even see the bridge?Probably not. Visibility forward from the roof line of those buses is very poor especially when a road dips to go under a bridge.