Cleaning the Trains

Indonesia is going medieval on the freeloaders who ride atop their trains:

Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains – hosing them down with red paint, appealing for help from religious leaders, and threatening them with dogs.

Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic: suspending rows of grapefruit-sized concrete balls above railway lines a few centimetres above the tops of carriages at points where trains enter or pull out of stations, or where they go through crossings.

Suh-WEEET! Morningstar flails at 100 kph! Man, I'll pay coin to watch some footage of that in action.

They're also adding brooms covered in icky goo. Not as much fun as the ol' concrete-ball-to-the-head-trick, though.

"For anyone who is still up there, it'll be like a whip," said Ahmad Sujadi, of the state-run railway, PT Kereta Api Indonesia. "Some people say its inhumane, but that's fine," he said...

I like this guy. Betcha he looks like Mr Burns. "Smithers, get those corpses off the top of my trains!"