> The monthly/weekly tickets have the year stamped on the front, so he'd
> have to alter that. Risky if you're asked to remove it from the plastic
> holder. If you are referring to daily tickets, they change the ticket
> design slightly each year, which the inspectors would no doubt pick up
> on. Either way, rather risky, and silly.
>
> David
>
> Daniel Bowen wrote:
> > 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
How do they (the inspectors) know that the ticket wasn't lying around
home not used and you decided to use it for the first time one year
(scratchies). Does the scratchie thicket design change from year to
year. When they first came out they were valid until some date shown on
the back. If you hadn't used them by then, you could take them back and
swap them for new ones. They had this to stop people bying 100 tickets
and stocking them up to avoid price increases.
On the matter of the connession card costing $108 and the fine $100,
when the automatic ticketing is finished the fine will be increased to
$500 since there will be no reasion for not having a ticket ie. "station
wasn't manned"
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Chris Gordon
E-mail - "cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au"
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