The latest craze among some teenagers in Mumbai, India, is a dangerous one - train surfing.
It has already caused injuries to one teen and the Indian Government Railway Police (GRP) want to put a stop to it.
To make matters worse, a video of the boys doing stunts has gone viral on YouTube.
It shows two young men skidding along a station platform while hanging on to the handrail of a moving train.
As the train leaves the station, they jump up on to a ledge, and then leap out to slap each passing pylon, reported the Telegraph.
It also shows them jumping on top of a steel viaduct and running on it while hanging on to the train before jumping back on again.
The stunts appeared to be staged to impress travellers in the trains' women-only carriages between Mumbai's Cotton Green and Reay Road stations.
The stunts take to new levels of risk the Mumbai tradition of fare-dodging passengers sitting on the train roof.
Those caught "travelling dangerously" can be fined 500 rupees (S$13) or jailed for three months.
The GRP said one young person recently fell off a train after being hit by a pole while trying to perform the stunts.
Doctors at the state-run St George Hospital, where Zahid Ansari, 13, who was hit by a pole while performing the stunts, is undergoing treatment, said he is in a stable condition.
He has suffered facial fractures and will have to undergo surgery.
"There is a facial bone fracture below his right eye. There is also a lot of blood collection in his cheek due to the fracture," surgeon Narsing Mane told the Times of India.
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