Idiots taking selfies on railway track force trains to stop

By Tongfei Zhang, November 19, 2014

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A student at Anhui Mechanical Engineering College uploaded a selfie of himself on a railway track last Sunday, with a train flashing its headlights just 50 meters behind him. In his online post he innocently asked, “is it because of us that the train stopped?”

Behold the words of a jackass:

We were playing nearby and then saw a train approaching, so we jumped onto the track to pose for some photos with the train behind us, and then jumped out of the way when it got about 50 meters from us. Then the train actually stopped! After about five or six minutes it drove away and I told my roommate, it must be waiting for another train.

As we were about to leave, the second train came, so out of curiosity we repeated the experiment to see if it’d hapen again, and it stopped too. The whistle blew for almost two minutes.

I walked towards the cab and saw the engineer coming out, who asked us (in a rather unfriendly tone), "was that funny?" Another guy in the second carriage was so mad that he yelled, "do you guys wanna die?"

We were confused and wanted to know, was it because of us that the train stopped?

Bravo.

To the boys' disappointment, netizens were none too amused by the their antics.

Police officers from Wuhu train station confirmed that the two trains that were forced to stop were K101 from Beijing to Wenzhou and K1396 from Taiyuan to Wenzhou. Railway police are now hot on the case.

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