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Achmad Ibrahim / AP
A man watches a frame with concrete balls suspended on it as workers install it above railway tracks in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia, on Jan. 17, 2012. Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains by suspending rows of grapefruit-sized concrete balls above railway lines a few inches above the tops of carriages at points where trains enter or pull out of stations, or where they go through crossings.
Supri Supri / Reuters, file
Commuters standing in the doorways of a train and sitting on its roof as they travel to work in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 10, 2011.
msnbc.com staff and news services report from JAKARTA, Indonesia:
Authorities hope the balls — which could deliver serious blows to the head — will be enough to deter defiant roof riders.
"We've tried just about everything, even putting rolls of barbed wire on the roof, but nothing seems to work," said Mateta Rizahulhaq, a spokesman for the state-owned railway company PT Kereta Api. "Maybe this will do it." Read the full story.
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