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This Is Not a Double-Decker Train

At 9:45 p.m., the engineer of a Boston, Mass., transit train was told to stop because there was a man riding on top of it. When the engineer climbed on top of the train to check, he saw a man there wearing a sombrero and poncho, apparently celebrating Cinco de Mayo. He was standing on a ladder at the front, with the top half of his body hanging over the ladder “like a child clinging over a shopping cart,” Transit Police said. The apparently intoxicated man allegedly claimed he was running from car to car looking for his friends, but denied climbing on top of the train. The man was taken to the police station, where he was charged with trespassing. His friends arrived later and said they would drive him home. (MS/Boston Globe) ...Luckily, their car has a roof rack.