Re: The PTC's own Gestapo

Daniel Bowen (dbowen@custard.net.#SPAMTRAP#.au)
Thu, 09 Oct 1997 19:26:03 GMT

paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au (Paul Dwerryhouse) wrote:
>Hmmm ... but the point is, people *shouldn't* have to dress neatly to
>be able to travel freely on public transport. The MetCops _should_
>be polite to _everyone_ they deal with, even if it is blatantly obvious
>that they are fair-evading, putting feet on seats, etc.

Actually, I should add at this point that some of the people
I have known to be most devious about fare evasion have
been well paid, neatly dressed colleagues. A few of them would
try everything from holding unfilled scratchies (which they would
fill only when approaching a manned gate), buying Zone 1 tickets
when going into zone 2, and I even knew one guy who had saved
a whole year's tickets and was re-using them all.

Daniel

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