Amsterdam to vandals: Try to wreck new prototype subway car
The council in Amsterdam has issued a call for vandals to attempt to trash a prototype of the city's new subway car, which is intended to be proof against even the most determined wrecker. Amsterdam's public transit vandals are the source of perverse pride among the municipal government there, which regards them as the toughest and most extreme vandals in the world.Mark van der Horst, the Amsterdam councillor responsible for traffic, told the newspaper that it is not easy to find subway trains that can withstand the Amsterdam brand of hooligans...Link (Thanks, Steel!)"Our new Amsterdam subway must be absolutely Amsterdam-idiot-proof," he explained.
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Cory Doctorow
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