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By Paul Maric |
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Quiet please, quiet please.

And the winner of this year’s moron of the year award goes to…

THE IMBECILE PICTURED BELOW!

Photo by John Marx

You can imagine how surprised CarAdvice’s Paul Maric was when heading home on Friday night after a road test. While we stand on a train overpass a train pulls in full of punters from the latest AFL match at Etihad Stadium – don’t ask us which match it was, we don’t follow AFL.

Attached to the back of the train that pulls in is a brainless idiot who has decided it’s a great place to ride. Despite several attempts by us yelling at him to get off, he didn’t want to.

So, we decided to get a photo of him in all his glory, along with a video.

Video by John Marx

The question is, what on earth is Connex doing at their stations to miss a youth riding the back of a train. It took the train to get to the Camberwell train station before anyone noticed him. The train then left the station with him still attached to it, and at that point we reported him to the police.

We can’t even begin to go through the motions of how many things could have possibly gone wrong in this situation, it simply staggers the mind.

What do you think, who’s ultimately responsible for morons like this who risk life to evade fares?


 

  • Chris

    You are becoming very famous Paul now on the Herald sun too

  • KC

    Hahaha I saw the video on news.com.au and it ended with Paul Maric, recognising the name I headed here. Good work gents.

  • http://skyline The Salesman

    Its all fun and games. Until some one gets run over by a train.

  • Dick Justice

    this happens everyday in india

  • Martin

    “What do you think, who’s ultimately responsible for morons like this who risk life to evade fares?”

    I am inclined to say the idiots that do this sort of sh*t. The train companies can really only do so much, in the end, its free will of people and their mental capacity, or lack there of, to make the decision to do such dumb things.

    Similar goes for people claiming to do illegal things after playing games such as Grand Theft Auto, in the end, it’s their own doing, not the games creator.

  • Baz

    And this has got to do with cars, how?

  • FRUGAL-ONE

    I know its NOT cheap to ride on public-transport and that standing/siting room is @ premium after sporting events, but THAT is origonal way of travel.

    Roof surfing is old news, that is GOLD!!

    Tellya what, i think now you have shown that it has started and it will become a “copycat” issue, mark my words on that

    Good photo anyway!

    Cheers

    F-0

  • crouchy

    If it doesn’t endanger anyone elses life, i couldn’t care less… Let him kill him self. Idiot.

  • Bob

    Baz it proves how dangerous trains are and we should all be in our 5 star cars :o )

  • Pious

    spare a thought for the train drivers. my understanding is that the poor buggers see so many people getting killed on the tracks from suicide or skylarking that they can end up having having “issues” long term

  • Simon

    Hawthorne supporter?? This is what I’d expect from Richmond/Essendon fans! Goes to show no club is immune from morons. As someone once said “this guy is robbing a village somewhere of an idiot!”.

  • adam (aka mada)

    Pious,

    Couldn’t agree more.

    I live inner city Brisbane and the amount of night clubers on a friday/saturday night drug/alcohol consumed playing chicken with the traffic shocks me.
    The idiot pedestrian will feel the pain not the vehicle that strikes them meanwhile the poor driver suffers mental trauma if they hit and kill somebody.

  • swampdawg

    Well spotted CA,
    It appears that he his happily harvesting his nose as well, maybe con-ex employs manual shunters?
    It’s all good until someone scores the dirty thankless job of hosing him off the tracks.

  • RoFlmaTiC

    I’d be inclined to ride on a train too if I was a Hawthorne supporter, given their performance on the weekend

  • Chris

    Nominee for a Darwin award if I do say so myself!

  • Bavarian Missile (.)(.)

    Absolute idiot………….absolutely true Paul.

  • Sama

    “What do you think, who’s ultimately responsible for morons like this who risk life to evade fares?”

    I have a feeling this person isnt trying to “evade” fares. I think trying to be “cool” is a more accurate representation.

  • Iz

    Its all in the process of natural selection, I say.

    What an idiot. Good work on the photo/reporting heh.

  • Jimbo

    Good work Paul on catching the bloke in the act.

    Unfortunately he will only qualify for an honourable mention in the Darwin awards.
    I do believe a recipient must kill them selves before they contribute to the gene pool before they qualify for the award.
    Thankfully this knuckle head has not left a mess for some poor Conex employee to clean up…this time.
    If he does end up killing him self lets hope he doesn’t make any contribution to the future human gene pool beforehand!

  • Krosbow…

    Nice work guys,

    http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25459960-29277,00.html

    ‘Mum kicks out train stunt fool’

  • Yanzo

    that’s not too bad, he’s on the back of the train anyways. what about parkour, they do crazy stuff but no one calls them an imbecile or an absolute idiot

  • Technofreak

    If he kills himself then….no problem…let him…

  • Mega

    Somehow I doubt this has anything to do with fare evasion.

    Rather its just about a thrill, which he certainly is getting. At least he’s not putting anyone at risk.

  • KC
  • Hmm…

    just saw this on CH.10 news – good work gents, not only did it make the media, it made the top 3 stories on the news!!

    should have watermarked the video with caradvice.com.au !

  • Yianni

    This is probably the biggest story of the day in VIC.

    Watermarking the video would have introduced a bit more traffic on here haha

    Good job in capturing this idiot.

    May I ask what camera was used for the still image and video?

    Cheers

  • Bavarian Missile (.)(.)

    Yeah seems to be everywhere in the media,I hear Paul and John have gone into hiding cause fans everywhere are stalking them for autographs,hahahaha

  • adam (aka mada)

    lol
    Apparently the train was too full, hence the method of transportation, yeah right, like theres no other options…

  • PoisonEagle

    What a funny c**t!

  • Andrew M

    Certainly not fare evasion.

    If you have ever tried to catch a train after a game you would know it would be more so frustration of not getting a seat coupled with alcohol.

    Dont know about down south, but here in QLD public transport is free on game days be it cricket or footy.
    Even free for concerts too i think/hope it is/was.

    Imagine the fright the guard might get if he was to pop the blind up to check the weather

    Ill give him one thing though apart from being stupid, he has done bloody well to hold on with a mere 4 inches to rest his heels.
    Its bad enough to hold on when you are inside, and would have been harder since he would have likely been intoxicated

  • Andronicus

    @Yanzo

    Parkour traceurs (people who do Parkour) are usually highly trained in their discipline; hardly compare this to riding on the back of a train.

    There is extreme and there is idiotic.

    And good spot CA, saw this on TV this morning.

  • dylanmg

    This is why I try not to have friends my own age

  • http://www.dialademo.co.za/services/vehicle-request Sue | Used Cars

    What was this guy thing, he is an idiot and deserves the award thats for sure!!!!!

  • o

    Those rail lines look really wide in Melbourne compared to brissy.At least Brisbane’s new trains [160/260] were designed with this in mind and are curved right along the front to stop this happening. I really hope that idiot doesnt get hurt though because most likely he would sue connex and win

  • Old CarAdvice Reader

    “F**king idiot!” Well said whoever it was.

  • Old CarAdvice Reader

    Look at this…

    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/812226/teen-claims-train-joyride-responsibility

    This idiot spoke on Nova radio with a voice distorter for goodness sake… And he even claims he’s done it “Heaps of times”

  • Cupid Stunt

    Hopefully he’ll fall off one day and only injure himself.

  • http://www.AUSringers.com Liam

    I imagine some heads are gonna roll at Connex HQ for not spotting this and getting the train to stop, haha.

    And, Paul, what on earth were you doing at a Public Transport station thingy? :P

  • Paul Maric

    I hate public transport just as much as the next person Liam!

    In fact, I caught my first ever domestic train just a few months ago!

    Anyway, the bridge just happened to be adjacent a bar we frequent and it was a case of right place right time!

  • http://www.AUSringers.com Liam

    Pleased to hear it.

    I tried public transport once. I didn’t care for it.

  • Maneesh

    “we dont follow AFL” lol! Are all the CarAdvice.com.au staff from QLD?

  • vrx26

    That guy is really COOL – C-hildish, O-verly Stupid, O-ver Acting, L-ooser.

  • Banga

    You all sound like grandmas.. ‘watchdogs for your local community.’

  • Anna

    I heard the guy who took the photo was really hot…? Then I saw him on T.V…. wow.

  • Jude

    I’m afraid I’ll stay in minority here… But I live in Russia, and such way of travelling is quite common here and is not regarded as very dangerous, especially for short-distance trips. I myself have never done this, but I saw people riding outside the carriage dozens of times – even women and elder ones. Here is a photo from one of the Russian blogs

    http://www.chatperm.ru/c/albumpic.php?picidx=330470&idstring=y57o8ePt1N8wiLYM&SID=3cdb56fc6d08f94c8e92a4cba9d2741e

    PS: Sorry for my poor English…

  • http://www.carz.com Carz

    Its natural here in Philippines…LOL In every corner of the train…so everyday accidents are being reported.

  • Duck

    Bloody Hawthorn……………………….