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Meh this sounds like scare mongering. If someone is tired at the end of a long shift, what do you think they are going to want to do more? a) spend 15 minutes
by fy20 5y ago
Meh this sounds like scare mongering. If someone is tired at the end of a long shift, what do you think they are going to want to do more?
a) spend 15 minutes writing up a ticket, and possibly waiting for the police to arrive before handing you over to them
b) take you to the back office and let you sit for 5 minutes while your phone charges
Nobody is going to send you to prison for the first offence of not having a ticket (a physical ticket could be lost or damaged to a point where it is unreadable too). They would probably issue a fine, but you could appeal that. Buying a digital ticket you'd have a digital paper trail showing you bought it - which you wouldn't if you bought a paper ticket.
- avianlyric 5y ago> spend 15 minutes writing up a ticket, and possibly waiting for the police to arrive before handing you over to them > take you to the back office and let you sit for 5 minutes while your phone charges Your on a train. There’s no back office, and neither of you are going anywhere in a hurry while it’s moving. They just ask the police to meet them at the next station and hand you over. > Nobody is going to send you to prison for the first offence of not having a ticket Prison sentence, probably not, £200 fine and a criminal record, not unlikely. I certainly know people who have found themselves on the wrong side of a TfL ticket conductor, and then found themselves in front of a judge. Train ticket enforcement is a surprisingly disproportionate part of British law.