Dicing with death!!!

This video shows young blacks in the Johannesburg area that do "train surfing" - quite a few of them have already got themselves killed in the process by falling off, or touching the overhead wires. Also read the BBC commentary on this dangerous pastime...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvRk-0DFvAU

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5117318.stm

 

With some teens, Teenagerism and Brains do not mix, kinda like trying to mix Fire & Water, funnily enough the video reminded me of the Baboons that ride the trains in the India. And to think were the top of the food chain, yea RIGHT

 

Train surfing - The idiot's Xtreme sport

 

Too right, the idiot's Xtreme sport, but then, what can one expect here in the so-called "New South Africa?" We ordinary law-abiding citizens "dice with death" every day, whether we're driving somewhere on the roads; walking around in a shopping mall; sitting minding our own business at a bus stop, etc, and back home, living in our self-made prisons:

http://crimexposouthafrica.net/crimexp/index.php

http://southafricasucks.blogspot.com

www.africancrisis.org

 

Sometimes it is easy for us americans to forget that the rest of the world is not the same.... we have our crime and urban problems but they just don't compare with some of the things going on in other countries.