Train Chicken

CHILDREN are using mobile phone cameras to film themselves playing “chicken” on railway lines in front of high-speed trains, police said yesterday.

Children as young as 10 stand on the tracks as the trains approach and leap clear at the last moment. Their friends record the stunt using the latest mobile phone technology.

The craze, called train chicken inspired by a video clip on the internet, has already killed one teenage girl in the United States.

Play chicken is slang meaning- to play dangerous games in order to discover who is the bravest:

They would play chicken by driving head-on at each other until one of them lost their nerve and swerved out of the way.

Here is the video clip behind this deadly craze.