Re: Transport ticket system collapses

["Johann Fan" <jyf-x@optusnet.com.au>]

Mike Alexander <malex @ bigfoot com> wrote in message
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> > > Having a chat to the repair man at Windsor station the other morning
> (after
> > > what seems like the thousandth time these machines have been jammed)
he
> > > stated that it is the same guy at Windsor who keeps doing it, and that
> they
> > > have him on video. He has been handed to the police on a number of
> > > occassions, and they just give him a slap over the wrist, and he's
back
> > > again the next day.
> >
> > So what's the deal? Aren't One Link pursuing charges? Does the guy try
to
> > steal money, or just to stop the machine working?
>
> Well, assuming the story is true, I think he just tries to jam it up for
the
> sake of it. It's always the same; both machines jammed with a folded up
> metcard in the slot. I guess he could come back and fish out the few coins
> that bank up behind it, but it hardly seems worth the effort.
>

I think he jams it up so that if/when he does get caught without a ticket,
he can say (along with the others who legitimately couldn't buy a ticket)
that the machine was faulty. Saves him more money than what he can get out
of the machine.

cheers
Johann