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In Germany, the practice of “ S-Bahn surfing ” was made popular during the 1990s.

The phenomenon was forgotten until the millennium, but in 2005 it was rediscovered by a group of train surfers from Frankfurt, Germany.

The leader of the crew who calls himself “ the Trainrider ” famously surfed the InterCityExpress, the fastest train in Germany.

An internet video claimed that he died a year later from an incurable form of leukemia, but later the Trainrider revealed in an interview that this video was made by a fan and the story of his death was a hoax.

In 2008 forty teenagers died in Germany because of train surfing.