A teenager in Lodz, Poland hacked the city's tram system with a homemade transmitter that tripped rail switches and redirected trains, a prank that derailed four trams and injured a dozen people.
According to reports in the Register and the Telegraph, the 14-year-old boy - described by his teachers as an electronics genius (Gee- you think?) - spent months studying the city's rail lines to determine the best places to redirect trains and cause the most havoc, then converted an old TV remote into an infrared transmitter capable for tripping the switches.
"He treated it like any other schoolboy might a giant train set, but it was lucky nobody was killed," Miroslaw Micor, a spokesman for Lodz police, told the Telegraph. "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."
Photo courtesy Telegraph.
