My kids did that back in the 70s in the Boston area.......needless to say I was not pleased.
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I used to do that as a kid when we were at the lake. There was a rail line between the cabin and the lake, so when we went boating we would put a coin on the tracks. The train would roll through, and then we had a hunt for the flattened coin/coins.
Harmless, cheap fun.