Re: Sydney Ticket Inspectors

[Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com>]

Hi
Not sure about sydney, but victorian ticket inspectors do have a power
to arrest under the transport act, and interestingly enough as
travelling without a ticket is a breach of the act rather than a
regulation anyone can make a citizens arrest for it.

Vaughan

> Saw an interesting scuffle when I was living in Hazelbrook and working
> in Sydney one night a couple of years ago: people came through
> inspecting tickets (these didn't look like your usual run-of-the-mill
> ticket inspectors). They caught one unfortunate and hauled him off
into
> the seats at the end of the interurban. I was getting out at
Hazelbrook
> and he dashed past me, up the steps and down to the pedestrian
crossing
> lights on the highway, where the inspectors caught him and carted him
> back to the station. They were definitely laying hands on him (and
> outside railway property, too).
>
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