Indonesians to Spray Train Roof Riders

• Lauren
  February 11th, 2008 at 2:20 am

  Mmmm, reminds me of the big bad old days of apartheid in South Africa where activists protesting the evil National Party regime were sprayed with purple dye so they could be easily identified and arrested - the activists responded by printing up a batch of t-shirts that afternoon that read “The Purple Shall Govern.”

• tobot
  February 11th, 2008 at 3:40 am

  they used to do something similar to this at illegal raves in the uk back in the late eighties/ early nineties.

  these would often be held in either barns or disused industrial units and once the police turned up to raid the party, the entrances would be barracaded by enthusiastic ravers , the police would spray cans of spray paint through the gaps in the doors so that once inside anyone with spray paint on them was the first down (crack on the head with a truncheon)

  ahhh…..happy days

• chudez
  February 11th, 2008 at 5:00 am

  similar problem occurred in the philippines with the PNR (Phil. National Railways) trains; i.e., hitchhikers on the train roof. PNR solved this with a sloping roof design (like a gabled roof on houses). ugly, but it worked.

• tofu
  February 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  Do they ride on the roofs of the trains because it’s too hot inside or because they don’t like to sit down?

  Maybe there is no room inside, packed like cattle in too few trains.

  I guess it’s cheaper to spray them with paint than to add more train. Damn people who want to commute! How dare they?!?

• Nate Deviate
  February 11th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

  how freaking cool is that people ride on the top of trains? I wonder how often people fall off… It makes for a good excuse for bewing late to work, thats for sure…

• ted
  February 12th, 2008 at 2:40 am

  They ride on the roofs because it’s crowded, and they’re probably skipping out on paying.
  Jagged glass on top would also help.

• Johnald_Chaffinch
  February 12th, 2008 at 2:57 am

  there’re easier solutions that that. think of where else the paint will go, all over the train and it’s windows,and all over the ground. this isn’t a very creative solution.

• Alexandre Souza
  February 21st, 2008 at 9:55 pm

  The same here in Brazil, this is a common occurrence in trains. The photo just looked like central do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro! :oD

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