Re: Sydney Ticket Inspectors

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Joel Cooper <joel@abilitycorp.com.au> wrote in message
B4597C50.ABB%joel@abilitycorp.com.au">news:B4597C50.ABB%joel@abilitycorp.com.au...
> I heard an interesting theory that ticket inspectors on city rail trains
> cannot physically touch you. Meaning that it would actually be quite hard
> for them to detain a fare invader if they were asked for a ticket they
> didn't have. Unless of course the next station wasn't for ages, then they
> could organise police to be waiting at the platform. Can anyone verify if
> this is true? Also would this mean that the ticket collectors couldn't do
> anything about a fare invader actually at the exit to the station?

As far as I know, that is the case. Touching you in those circumstances
would be the same as an arrest (placing them in all sorts of legal
difficulties) - if they tried to say it was not an arrest, the only other
thing it could be is an assault (also leaving them in the faeces).

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