as i said for me it is amazing, and youre seem to be extraordinary heavy bores here : D hehe, but this is my private opinion ;/ tnx for the answers, life long wardega it was great spirit for me

the problem fir is that it's only funny to those in on the joke, and outside observers. however if you can put yourself in the passengers shoes, you'd understand why this is simply annoying. it's one thing if your prank/joke doesn't actually interrupt anything, and people can observe freely. it's another if you force others into the joke unwillingly.

Also imagine the situation, you are in a foreign country. Some guy in strange clothes waves a sword at you and shouts something you cannot understand.

What do you think you would do?

Laugh?

Don't think so.

Pull out a gun and shoot him? Well maybe in Texas.

Hit him as hard as you can? Yes, in most places in the UK

Give him a 'Glasgow kiss' ? Nobody would ever be stupid enough to pull this stunt in Glasgow.

Would love to see someone try that on the Caltrain in the Bay Area.

but the fact that they sent the bills by mail (well, duh, of course... how would you send them otherwise...). Which made it a criminal attack on a federal institution or something equally ridiculous. Though of course, in the USA, that's perfectly plausible...

Mail fraud - one of the best weapons in the Fed's arsenal. Right up there with tax evasion for busting those hard to touch types.

Total nincompoop, for reasons already stated by Stainless.

If you're going to do a real-life prank, at least do something like the guy who did the RE 4 "What are ya buying? What are ya selling?" thing in a mall.

Or the "Real Life Mariokart".

If he tried that on the train line I ride to and from work every day, he'd probably be killed by the train on account of the fact that our light rail (the SkyTrain) is pretty much fully automated. Either that or electrocute himself on the 3rd rail.

Either that or electrocute himself on the 3rd rail.

No joke, both the voltage (typically 750V) and the currents (several hundred to a thousand A, given typical 600-800 kW motors) on these are far beyond what you would wish to have go through your legs.

Note that the power network easily supports two or three trains running behind each other (a kind of regular thing when there is a delay), so the actual supported currents must be in yet another ballpark. I really wouldn't rely that the cutout switch goes off early enough when you're playing the short circuit.