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Bizarre Culture: All Aboard the Cram Train [Video]
by Mike Richard
This “cramming” concept is so inconceivable in the U.S. that I just have to laugh.
Anyone know what country this is from?
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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January 9th, 2009
OK, so there’s no way I want to travel by train wherever that is. You could be killed.
January 9th, 2009
@DD Evidently this is common practice on public trains/subways in Asia. Not sure about the rest of the world. I guess when overpopulation is rampant, there is no other option. You’re right though: scary nevertheless.
January 9th, 2009
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January 9th, 2009
Traveling on the subway in Japan would be an interesting experience.
January 9th, 2009
I would imagine they are in Japan, as the conductor was speaking Japanese.
January 10th, 2009
yes, I think Japan. I have seen/experienced this around Tokyo, but from the middle of the car, i.e., haven’t had somebody pushing on my back trying to cram me into the car.
In the middle of the car, it is so crammed you can pretty much go go sleep standing up — no chance of falling over!
January 10th, 2009
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January 12th, 2009
Hey, I’m from Mumbai (Bombay India). Try getting into our trains during rush hour. My sisters and I just saw this an exclaimed, “We dont get people to push us in. We gotta do it ourselves!” ha ha