Don't try this at home.

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Don't try this at home. After rumors spread across Indonesia that a paralyzed man healed himself with electric currents from train tracks, hundreds of people from the slums of the capital, Jakarta, began trying his "cure" for their ailments. They either lie down on the tracks opposite a passing train (above) or, even more dangerous, lie in the path of the oncoming...