'Lunatic style behaviour' - Clinton Maynard slams kids shocking behaviour on Sydney's trains
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Just on trains. On Friday, I raised the case of the 33-year-old alleged lunatic, and I say alleged because this bloke is before the courts, who's been charged with leading police on several chases on his motorbike. This guy is accused of filming the chases while reaching speeds of 299 kilometres an hour.

It's a trend that is increasing because it's being fueled by social media, particularly with teenagers. That trend is people posting this outrageous lunatic style behavior on social media. Kids who think the best way to gain notoriety, to gain likes on, whether it's Facebook, it's probably not Facebook for young people, it's probably Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, is to film themselves doing crazy things.

And I made the point that police are reporting a particular increase on the train network. And I had a couple of listeners get in contact with me on Friday saying, oh, no, it's not social media. This has been going on since we were kids. And yes, to an extent, it has been going on for decades. But let me assure you, in 2025, it is social media that is supercharging this stuff. And the police will confirm it. And sure, it's impossible to stop teenagers being idiots. A lot of them are born that way.

but the government can do more to better control access to social media. And maybe it would prevent a few of these young kids doing something stupid. Maybe it would prevent somebody dying at some point. I raise this because I've been sent a video today, and we'll put this up online on 2GB.com, the sort of outrageous behaviour that's going to get someone killed.

And it's a demonstration of what kids are doing to get likes on the train network. Now, you can go to our website and our social media, we'll show this a little later, but this is part of what it sounds like. So what this video depicts is some young teens getting access to the driver's compartment at the rear of the train. So the other end from where the train's being driven. Somehow they've got in. Anyway, they've grabbed a fire extinguisher.

And from outside an open door, they open the door, they start spraying that fire extinguisher. And you can see the retardant

flowing down the side of the train, which is travelling, it must be at 70, 80 kilometres an hour. And it looks like the train is... It looks like the train's on fire at one point because there is so much, it looks like smoke, but it's a fire retardant. Anyway, eventually they drop this red fire extinguisher and it crashes down to the rails below. And if that fire extinguisher remains in the rails, it's the sort of thing that could easily derail a train. And imagine the harm that would cause.

And it follows another video that I saw over the weekend of kids hanging out of train doors. Now, yes, that sort of stuff's been going on forever. But what it's being fueled by is this desire to become some sort of social media celebrity by doing crazy things on trains, riding on the top of carriages, clinging onto the back of them. Sooner or later, someone's going to be killed by this sort of behavior. And yes, it's been going on for decades.

But the fact that I've been sent this video today, just a few days after talking about it, just proves my point. It is social media that drives this lunatic-style behaviour on the train network, and sooner or later, it'll end up in someone dying.

Look, if you've got kids, you've got teenagers, how do you control it? You probably, it's very, very difficult. And that's where I'm supportive of the government's move to bring the access age to social media down. Because even though a lot of smart kids are still going to get around it, that's just reality. It gives parents another argument when they're trying to set down the ground rules for their kids about how to behave. And yes, they've been hanging outside train doors since we were little as well.

But if it prevents a few of them doing it, it may well save a life. 131873 is my number. 25 past three.