A 14 year old kid in Lodz, Poland, modified a TV remote to control the public transit train system.
"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," said Miroslaw Micor, a spokesman for Lodz police."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," Micor added.
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Hire him, of course, and channel his creativity and genius into something useful.
Wow. Kind of reminds me of the Radioactive Boy Scout....
Hire him, absolutely. You can't put mad geniuses in the jail system, they just end up as supervillains.
Sounds like a brilliant kid who's bored to death. Stick him in a University with challenging classes so that he can't get bored enough to cause mass transit disasters.
hilarious! but good thing he wasn't making giant firecrackers to use on trains like the Islamo-fascists do.....lmfao
he "clearly did not think about the consequences of his actions" but what good boy does when they are out playing?