Pssh. Amateurs. Try bumper hitching on crowded city streets in winter time like we did as kids in Canada.

Meh.

Marty McFly did it better.

bumper hitching? what's that?

We called it "pogeying" in Buffalo

That is awesome. I hitched a freight train once, but had the common sense not to post about it on the internet.

Did you read the article?? They're taking back teh streets!!

//remembers bumper hitching on frozen streets in Canada

Isn't this a self-correcting problem?

Schlemiel: Isn't this a self-correcting problem?

Except the families will then sue the train company for not preventing it.

The way to impress the importance of not doing this on a 15 year old boy: "son, if you slip and fall on your face onto that gravel and those railroad ties at 40 mph, you better hope that it kills you, cause you will never, ever have sex with anyone except blind people.

But it still won't work. 15 year old boys are immortal and indestructible. Don't believe it? Just ask them.

Train surfing is fun.

Dangerous as hell, but a good thrill when you live in rural Alabama.

more animals

Where's Ernest Borgnine when you need him? (Or does anyone else remember the movie Emperor of the North?)

Darwin?

/not yet, apparently

Wanted for questioning

Train surfing? Wow, I didn't think people my age could get any stupider.

In case you were wondering

Civil Protection: On A Rail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gaki5bRh-Y

No, it is not a RickRoll

Pfft, amateurs.

Train Surfing
Roof Hopping
Bumper Hitching

If you did none of these, or refused to gamble with your life in any other way, your childhood sucked.

dammit hagar, beat me to it.

gopher321 2008-09-21 08:52:47 AM
Pssh. Amateurs. Try bumper hitching on crowded city streets in winter time like we did as kids in Canada.


Wulph 2008-09-21 09:16:37 AM
We called it "pogeying" in Buffalo

we called it ' bumber jumping' in south west ontario, my friend used to wear his 'super slider snow skates', if you don't know

what those are then get off my lawn.

gopher321 2008-09-21 08:52:47 AM
Pssh. Amateurs. Try bumper hitching on crowded city streets in winter time like we did as kids in Canada.

Jeez, I thought my friends and I were the only ones stupid enough to do that-- back in Halifax...

Amateurs.

Try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoT9vTx3_ms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXDqhitf2ww (more complete footage)

They need to have some structures, just bigger than the train, for the train to pass through, knocking them off. Wires on the top would be a problem though.