Boy Turns Polish Tram System In Giant Train Set

PLAYING at trains in Poland:

“A teenage boy who hacked into a Polish tram system used it like ‘a giant train set’, causing chaos and derailing four vehicles.

The 14-year-old, described by his teachers as a model pupil and an electronics ‘genius’, adapted a television remote control so it could change track points in the city of Lodz.

Twelve people were injured in one derailment, and the boy is suspected of having been involved in several similar incidents…

Miroslaw Micor, a spokesman for Lodz police, said: “He studied the trams and the tracks for a long time and then built a device that looked like a TV remote control and used it to manoeuvre the trams and the tracks.

“He had converted the television control into a device capable of controlling all the junctions on the line and wrote in the pages of a school exercise book where the best junctions were to move trams around and what signals to change.

“He treated it like any other schoolboy might a giant train set, but it was lucky nobody was killed. Four trams were derailed, and others had to make emergency stops that left passengers hurt. He clearly did not think about the consequences of his actions.”

It takes a team of thousands to make the London Underground run badly…

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