Completely loco: train forced to stop by Chinese waiter taking a selfie on the track

A karaoke bar waiter from Beijing has been fined after he forced a train to stop while he was taking a selfie on a railway track, a newspaper reported.

The 19-year-old tied his mobile phone to a metre-long piece of wood and put it on the track with a 10-second time delay to take pictures, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

He fled and took his mobile phone with him when he saw a train coming, but left the piece of the wood on the line, the report said.

A train travelling from Nanjing to Beijing had to stop after the driver saw the man and the obstruction on the line.

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Police tracked the man down and he confessed that he was a train enthusiast who had lived near a railway line as a child.