Wednesday, June 28, 2006

africa's newest sport


"Thabo Thedise knows his hobby is dangerous.

"Yes, I can fall, but I can phone my mom, she can take me to the doctor," he says.

The tall 19-year-old is one of Johannesburg's "train surfers": mostly young men who perform daring stunts on the city's commuter trains."...

" If he dies, so be it, Thabo says, to boisterous laughter from the crowd that surrounds him at central Johannesburg's Park Station. His mother is a member of a burial society who will pay for the funeral.

"They will cry and they will bury me. I will be a born again. You know anytime you are going to be born again. I might be a white boy."

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1 comment:

ernie said...

They probably just watched teen wolf and said "Hey I can one up that lousy American wolf"