Is ‘coupler riding’ Australia’s stupidest new craze? 新たにするd 恐れるs for the lives of 無謀な 十代の少年少女s who ride on the OUTSIDE of trains

By Lucy Thackray

Published: 03:51 BST, 16 July 2014 | Updated: 06:59 BST, 13 October 2014

• 最新の photo shows two teenage boys 成し遂げるing the stunt
  
• 'Coupler riding' 伴う／関わるs riding on outside of a moving train
• Woman who 報告（する）／憶測d stunt says 公式の／役人s were 'unconcerned'
• The only 刑罰，罰則 for carrying out the stunt is a $72 罰金
  
• Young Melbourne man died in 'train surfing' 出来事/事件 last month

A shocking new image showing two teenage boys 粘着するing to the outside of a moving Melbourne train is the 最新の example of a dangerous 傾向 called 'coupler riding'.

The 傾向 伴う／関わるs riding on the 後部 coupler, or 'coupling' of a train, the small metal 装置 used to connect 鉄道 cars.

Coupler riding is different from 'train surfing', which 伴う／関わるs riding on 最高の，を越す of the carriage, but Metro, Melbourne’s train 操作者, says the new stunt is just as dangerous.

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Two 十代の少年少女s (circled) were photographed 粘着するing to the 支援する of a train at Middle Brighton 駅／配置する in Melbourne, in an alarming new 傾向 know as 'coupler riding'

The woman who took the 最新の photograph, Elise, says the two young boys ‘smiled and waved at her’ after jumping off the 壇・綱領・公約 and の上に the 支援する of the train, によれば ABC news.

‘It’s the first time I’d seen it. I’m shocked. I’m sure the parents would’ve be 関心d.’

But it's now returned as a 傾向 with 36 事例／患者s already 報告（する）／憶測d to polic e this year.

The new 関心s come after a 26-year-old street artist Jordan Porter was 電気椅子で死刑にするd in a 致命的な train stunt in Melbourne last month.

（映画の）フィート数 解放（する）d a week later of a thrill 捜し出すing stunt group surfing Melbourne trains, 誘発するing 乱暴／暴力を加える throughout Australia.

Under 現在の 法律s, 十代の少年少女s under 18 are only 罰金d $72 if they are caught. Adults 直面する a 罰金 of $354.

Another 'coupler riding' stunt: A man was filmed 持つ／拘留するing on to a train with one 手渡す and drinking beer with the other, in Melbourne in February, 2014

Elise says the 出来事/事件 took place last week at Middle Brighton 駅／配置する on the Sandringham line in Melbourne's south.

Elise photographed the 二人組 on Tuesday and called Public 輸送（する） Victoria to 報告（する）／憶測 the stunt, but was stunned that the call-taker seemed unconcerned.

Metro trains are now 調査／捜査するing why Elise’s （人命などを）奪う，主張する was not taken 本気で.

There have already been 36 報告（する）／憶測d 事例／患者s of coupler riding in Melbourne this year.

Rail 会議s say coupling started 支援する in the 1980s but has risen in 人気 again because the design of trains has changed, making it easier for 通勤（学）者s to 成し遂げる the stunt.

Metro explained they are aware of the ‘無謀な and 極端に d angerous practice’.?

Jordon Porter died last month after he was 電気椅子で死刑にするd in a train surfing 事故 in Melbourne

緊急 services at the scene of Jordan Porter's deat h, who was 電気椅子で死刑にするd after he climbed の上に the roof of train as it was pulling into Balaclava 駅／配置する, Melbourne in June 2014

Public 輸送（する） 使用者s’ 協会 大統領，／社長 Tony Morton called for 活動／戦闘 in March this year, after a 類似の 出来事/事件.

Three 十代の少年少女s were photographed on the 支援する of a train at Mordialloc, Victioria.

The number of 出来事/事件s that have come to light over the last month 示唆する enough isn't 存在 done to 妨げる these 無謀な antics.

“If you’re going to 禁止（する） something and make it an offence then you せねばならない be 施行するing it, さもなければ it’s not 価値（がある） the paper it’s written on,” Mr Morton told the 先触れ（する） Sun.

Mr Morton 示唆するd harsher 罰金s and a public 認識／意識性 （選挙などの）運動をする are 決定的な, while cameras could be 任命する／導入するd on 最高の，を越す of trains to catch 違反者／犯罪者s.

Bystanders were shocked to see a man jump の上に the 支援する of a train in Melbourne in February this year, stanidng 危険に on the train's 後部 coupler

Comical YouTube ビデオ 'Dumb Ways to Die' is a train safety （選挙などの）運動をする from Metro in Melbourne and has 伸び（る）d almost 85 million YouTube 攻撃する，衝突するs since its 解放（する） in November 2012. It became the かつてない most awarded （選挙などの）運動をする in the history of Cannes International Festival of Creativity, with fifteen awards.

They （人命などを）奪う，主張する that there was a 21 per cent 減少（する） in 事故s in the three months after the 昇進／宣伝 was 解放（する）d.

Metro advise that if anyone 証言，証人／目撃するs coupler riding, they should 押し進める the red 緊急 button inside trains or on the 壇・綱領・公約.