As if we needed further proof that kids are, well, dumb no matter the culture … Colombian teenagers have created a new “sport” they’ve dubbed “the train game”. In this modern version of chicken, the teens await oncoming trains, then quickly lie down between the tracks, allowing the trains to pass (hopefully) harmlessly over them.
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Tavio Reyes, who has lost two of his fingers and gone temporarily blind during one particular outing, claims, “It’s fun. We used to play football, but they built a farm where we used to play, and now we’re not allowed to, so we do this instead.”
How on earth does one make the leap from playing football … to dodging freight trains?