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| Post subject: Hacked TV Remote Derails Trams |  |
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http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Home_Cinema/Accessories/A9W6T4S9
| Quote: | By Sarah Falson | Tuesday | 15/01/2008
A 14-year-old boy in Poland has de-railed up to four trams using a modified TV remote control, injuring 12 people and triggering chaos in the city of Lodz.
The youth, who was described by his teachers as a technology buff and an ‘exemplary student' trespassed in tram depots to gather the information needed to perform the prank.
"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," a Lodz police spokesperson told a polish Newspaper.
"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."
Problems with the signalling system on Lodz's tram network were noticed when a driver attempting to steer his vehicle to the right was involuntarily taken to the left, according to reports. As a result, the rear wagon of the train jumped the rails and collided with another passing tram.
"He treated it like any other schoolboy might a giant train set," said Lodz police.
"It was lucky nobody was killed." |
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