Big Albert from England has a gripe about fare dodgers:
These people really get my goat! If we all paid our way we would all be paying a little less. The worst offenders are the City types,often well heeled with their own modest portfolio of investmets who get very indignant when caught red-handed by an inspector. They usually give some lame excuse that they have forgotten to renew their ticket as they are sooooo busy. Surely these type of people are worse than the scruffy poor souls who try to skip the fare out of genuine poverty?
Albert, beat it. Those bastards fleeced me for £300 or a criminal record for forgetting to buy a £1.50 train fare. I'd just moved house and the station where I get on and off has no gates that would remind me my card was about to expire. I've never missed a month's travel card ever, and am very diligent about paying the correct fare. Not only that, but when I handed over my out of court settlement, they told me that some people get let off for the same thing! Perhaps if I had bigger boobs....
