Not satisfied with trying to outrun trains, looney kids are now latching onto the side of a MOVING train and playfully dodging things that they pass by. Right when you think they’ll smash into a pole, they manage to stay alive. It’s insane.
Well, one train at least. Delayed ever since being announced back in 2009, the Queensland Rail project is rockin’ and rollin’. Maybe you’re reading Giz on the free Wi-Fi train right now? [Queensland Rail Twitter via Lifehacker]
Not advocating this in any shape or form, but Dtagno’s built a large pole for housing 22 spray cans that simultaneously attack passing trains with graffiti. If only the Berlin street-artist could put that enthusiasm to better use.
Reuters reports that a garbage-filled dump truck trying to race across the tracks ahead of an Amtrak train this morning simply didn’t make it. Nor did the driver. Downeaster train 681, headed from Boston to Portland, Maine crashed in North Berwick at 11am. Four of the train’s 112 passengers were injured.
