Man Stops the World’s Fastest Train with a Cigarette

In China, the world’s fastest train which has only been around since last Saturday, has already hit its first speed bump. The Bullet train was forced to stop when a passenger violated the “No Smoking” sign which set off an alarm that forced the train to stop for two and a half hours, which is nearly as long as the train takes to cover the 1,100 kilometer (684 mile) distance between Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, and the central city of Wuhan.

“Smoking is strictly forbidden on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed train, even in the toilet,” a spokesman with the Guangzhou Railway Group Corporation was quoted as saying. “It could trigger the alarm and even cause equipment failures.”