Ever caught without ticket?

bigslick

Whether it be LUAS, DART, or bus, have you or others you know ever been caught without a ticket? Did you mean to not have a ticket? Did you get caught? Did you get away with fine?

Lot of questions I know, but saw a guy today at Pearse DART station being caught and he was fuming.

Overheal

Wy were you fuming? Get off the hob: tea's ready.

SoWatchaWant

Careful now

Why no, sure I'm a model citizen.

TechieEddy

Ya got caught on the Dart before. No one was at the ticket office and the machines were broken so I couldnt get one.
Usually when that happens I can explain at the next station and just pay the fair but this guy at Gran Canal was been a real pri*k armed with his tourch and notepad!
He sent out a fine of €60. Didnt pay it. Wont be either.

r3nu4l

Yup, I once jumped onto a train to London Liverpool street just as it was pulling out of the station. I knew I didn't have a ticket and intended to pay when I got there. Anyway, just at Harlow I saw an inspector getting on the train so I started moving from the end of the train, carriage by carriage until I got to the front of the train.

Just as the train pulled into Liverpool Street and I'm about to get off the inspector asks me for my ticket so I explained the situation (already had the fare in my hand) and then the door to the train opens. I look out onto the platform, look back at him, he looks out onto the platform, back at me and just nods his head slightly while looking at the platform again and I get off the train and don't look back.

It was beautiful man, like something from a film. God bless you train inspector, wherever you are.

helimachoptor

Yep, was getting the train into town a few years ago to meet some mates, got off at Tara Street and had tissue and crap in my pocket (along with my ticket!) so just stuck it all in the bin and get down and the guy checking tickets is there, just waited til everyone went by and told him, he didnt say much!

Overheal

r3nu4l wrote: »

It was beautiful man, like something from a film. God bless you train inspector, wherever you are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnkRCKsGprw

stovelid

High-voltage cattle prods for ticket inspectors ftw. Especially the junkies on the Luas.

Royale with Cheese

Not since I was a kid. I'd just tell the inspector the guy at the station said I could pay at my destination as the train was on the platform and I was running for it. I was always able to just pay the fare on the train.

Was catching a train in Prague to Slovenia or somewhere and with about 30 minutes to go we realised we were in the wrong train station! Legged it onto the metro, didn't pay. When we got to the proper train station there were inspectors there, obviously they knew it'd be full of bagpackers who don't pay the fare so they were waiting. Had to pay a fine that amounted to about €12 (that was many many pints in Prague though). That was only 4-5 years ago.

seamus

Got caught on the bus when I was about 15. Funnu thing was that I had paid my fare and the bus driver remembered me doing it. He just forgot to give me a ticket, and I forgot to take one...

biko

Yes in Warsaw, about 22 or so. I couldn't find a ticket selling kiosk for the trams and thought "feck it, I'll chance it". Got caught and fined about a tenner or less I think.

partyguinness

Was caught on the Dublin - Cork train on a packed Friday evening about 6 yrs ago.

The g/friend at the time was still in Uni and had a Usit card so she would buy my tickets obviously cheaper.

Inspector came around and asked for our tickets which we duly produced. He then asks to see my Usit card...(cue lots of feeling around in my pockets) and I said that I had left it in my luggage so I get up to go look...I spent the next 20 mins in the toilets waiting for him to go...he actually sits down and gets comfortable waiting for me to return..

It was obvious that he wasnt going to move so eventually I head back and tell him that I seemed to have lost my Usit card. He then asked was I travelling with this lady (my g/friend) we both denied knowing each othr...lol

But.......little did I know but the tickets print the actual Usit card number on each ticket so then he goes:

"If ye dont know each other, how come her Usit card bought your ticket?"

It was a fair cop at that stage so I just held my hand up and paid with my credit card and got a stren warning. He then took the Usit card off g/friend and she went ballistic (red head and all that) in front of everyone. He gave it back as we pulled into Cork.

I ended up apologising later on to him in the gangway over her behaviour. She felt we sldnt have had to pay and I just caved in and never put up a fight. As far I was concerned it was a fair cop.:)

Ironically, I was entitled to a Usit card myself I just hadnt got around to getting one.

Korvanica

A group of about 8 of us were going into town on the luas one day, only me and one other guy bought tickets. A ticket inspector was making her way up the tram and just two or three people before she caught any of our mates she finds a lad with no ticket. So she decided to drag him off the Luas to talk to him. And it went off ithout her saving my mates.

Boskowski

yes

Mr Benevolent

Yup, got caught once on Dart, Luas and bus.

Lesson learned: Always use public transport at peak times!

UnderpantsGnome

Yes. Pretended to be a really dumb foreigner who didn't understand the rules. Well, this really only works if you've bought the wrong (cheaper) ticket. Helps to have a second language too.

LeahBaby

I always get caught. But after 3 years of commuting I have the excuses to a tee.

"I'm pregnant and my morning sickness was so bad I had to jump on in case I got sick(not true)"
"I just got mugged in the way-I didn't no what to do"
"Yeah I have it here, OH NOES!! This is my ticket from last week I was cleaning out my bag and must of threw out the wrong one!"
"Oh my God I'm so sorry I just forgot" While pulling my top lower and lower.
"The ticket guy was on the phone and waved me on"
"The ticket guy had no change and told me to get it on the train"
I have also pretended to be deaf and forgot my pass(That's not bad cause my friend is deaf,perks of the relationship)

stovelid

UnderpantsGnome wrote: »

Yes. Pretended to be a really dumb foreigner who didn't understand the rules.

50% right is pretty close though.

AnonoBoy

Criminals. The lot of ye.

Never been caught myself.

carlop

I went inter-railing around the south of Italy last year with a few friends. The ticket we bought entitled us to unlimited travel on any 3 days over the next month. However, it was up to you to fill in the date of your journey on the ticket, so we got these pens to fill in the dates that came with their own eraser.

For the entire trip we got away with it. After a day's traveling, we would just rub out the date and fill in a new one. We had probably taken trains on six different days, and only had two of the slots filled in.

For the journey back to Milan from Naples, I suggested we fill in the final date, but everyone else insisted 'Whats the point, we can use it again another time.' Between Naples and Rome, the usual case of the inspector having a quick glance and handing it back without a bother. Then we re-enter the north of Italy.

At around 2 in the morning, drifting to sleep content with a nice trip part-subsidised by TrenItalia, the inspector knocks on our compartment. We hand him the tickets and he shakes his head and goes 'no, this is isn't right, the second date has been filled out four times,' the exact amount of times it had been rubbed out and re-entered.

He tells us we can either admit to it now and pay a 100 euro fine, or we can be taken off the train and have it proven by the police and get a 250 euro fine. We admit it, and he obviously says 'I'm fining you all 250 euro for ticket violation. He tells us he'll be back in a minute and goes to the next compartment where our other, hot, female friends are.

Following a 5 minute conversation with the girls, he comes back with a new offer. Suddenly he's all friendly and pally, telling us how he too was young once, and that he'd like to let us off but we have to pay something. So he says we have to pay 50euro per couple We weren't even all couples traveling, and there was an odd number of us, so I asked does the ninth person pay 25? He says 'No, the 9th person has to pay as a couple himself.'

This story basically typifies Italy, where nothing makes sense but the power of the low-cut top is almighty.

Professey Chin

LeahBaby wrote: »

I always get caught. But after 3 years of commuting I have the excuses to a tee.

"I'm pregnant and my morning sickness was so bad I had to jump on in case I got sick(not true)"
"I just got mugged in the way-I didn't no what to do"
"Yeah I have it here, OH NOES!! This is my ticket from last week I was cleaning out my bag and must of threw out the wrong one!"
"Oh my God I'm so sorry I just forgot" While pulling my top lower and lower.
"The ticket guy was on the phone and waved me on"
"The ticket guy had no change and told me to get it on the train"
I have also pretended to be deaf and forgot my pass(That's not bad cause my friend is deaf,perks of the relationship)

Feckin wimmin. I hate yey cause you can get away with all that but love yey cause yey give jollies

LeahBaby

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Feckin wimmin. I hate yey cause you can get away with all that but love yey cause yey give jollies

I have also offered Jollies to get out of a fine!

Professey Chin

LeahBaby wrote: »

I have also offered Jollies to get out of a fine!

...............
*applies for ticket inspector job*

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

stovelid wrote: »

High-voltage cattle prods for ticket inspectors ftw. Especially the junkies on the Luas.

Was on the luas at smithfeild, going to the city center, not too far, but as I got on a junkie mumbled "if he looks at me again I will break his fking jaw". Jervis stop, and the inspector gets on, you should have seen the chicken sh!t junkies move right away... ha was funny as hell

I did it once or twice, because the machines didn't take my money, I only had a 50, from the ATM, and the machines at the time would only take 10's and 20's.

LeahBaby

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

...............
*applies for ticket inspector job*

jolly ranchers:D

Professey Chin

LeahBaby wrote: »

jolly ranchers:D

They are also acceptable

Saruman

Not me but my wife was, she did have a ticket but it was the wrong one. The ticket said monthly (train) and she thought that meant she could use it all month. In fact it means its a monthly return ticked so she can come back any time with a month period. She was not fined when she explained it, possibly due to the fact the is American so the inspector probably thought she was just a "Dumb American" when in fact she is pretty smart.. though thinking she can get an unlimited monthly ticket for €26 or whatever it was is a little silly.

In Chicago on the Metra line there is always an inspector and the way they work it is if you do not have a pre paid ticket, you can buy one from the inspector but at a more expensive price. $5 more or something.

burgoyne172

i have but as i couldnt get a ticket on the train or at my station i explained that to ticket officials at my destination. that could happened to the person this morning could be a regular thing at some stations no ticket vendors or machines at station or on train

skyhighflyer

Got stopped on the Paris metro by a lad with a German Shepherd and a machine gun. Paid that €25 fairly quick. Also got stopped on the Luas. If you tell them you have no ID and just give a fake address you should be ok.

dollybird09

got luas from stephens green one night after several drinks with friends... we were just heading up to harcourt st and our heels didn't make walking appealing...

got on and this homeless guy kept tryin to talk to us... luas starts moving and inspectors got on and asked for our tickets... we're screwed n trying to talk our way out of it...

homeless guy nudges my friend and says I'll sort this... starts shouting and wailing to distract inspectors and we hopped off at harcourt st!! ... friend threw him a tenner to say thanks!

Xavi6

Course I have. Sometimes there's no one there to collect tickets, especially in the suburban stations, so I built up a collection of old ones and just started handing them in instead of getting new ones. Never had any hassles until one smart bastard actually bothered to look at the ticket in Pearse. Came after me and told me to come back in 'for a chat'. I politely told him where to go, threw him 2 euro and legged it.

Professey Chin

dollybird09 wrote: »

got luas from stephens green one night after several drinks with friends... we were just heading up to harcourt st and our heels didn't make walking appealing...

got on and this homeless guy kept tryin to talk to us... luas starts moving and inspectors got on and asked for our tickets... we're screwed n trying to talk our way out of it...

homeless guy nudges my friend and says I'll sort this... starts shouting and wailing to distract inspectors and we hopped off at harcourt st!! ... friend threw him a tenner to say thanks!

I dont think thats the end of this story. Secret homeless orgy later?

dollybird09

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

I dont think thats the end of this story. Secret homeless orgy later?

wow I'm waaaaay more transparent than I thought.... :rolleyes:

6 girls, 1 homeless guy...... is there a novel/movie in that??

UnderpantsGnome

stovelid wrote: »

50% right is pretty close though.

Look, if you want to insult me you'll have to be a lot smarter.

steo87

Yep got caught in Duesseldorf. Didn't pay on the R-bahn because I had no change. All was well, I was thinking I got away with it as my stop was merely two stops away. But then the inspector appears out of nowhere and asks for my ticket.

I tried explaining to him the situation but sure the only English he had was 'hello' and the only German I had at the time was "Noch ein bier bitte!"....my friend was with me, who can speak German, but he was too busy laughing at me.

The interesting/weird thing about it was that there was a plain-clothes 'inspector' on the train who the uniformed inspector signalled to. Up he hops and begins to hold onto me while the inspector finishes his rounds. Awkward conversation ensued: "so you are from ze Ireland yah?"
"em yeah, have you ever been?"
"oh no aah like Yermany to much to leave"

He came back and asked me for I.D and said, through the plain-clothes inspector, that I have been fined 40.00 euro. I played dumb and said that I had no i.d on me (even thought I had my passport, student i.d, and bankcards etc) and no money (had 50.00 euro in my wallet), in the hope that they'd let me away with it.

But no....they take me off the train and proceed to tell me that they're taking me to.....the police station. I didn't know what to do...decided to go with it and see what happens, thought they were bluffing.

I walked up the stairs leading onto the street, and low and behold, there is a big sign "Polizei" and we were all wallking towards it. Just thought I sprung into action:

"oh what's this, oh...*checks wallet* oh look I do have money....ha mad"

Cue stern looks from the two Germans, with us all just inches away from the Police door. I give them the 50, and the wait for my tenner change was the longest most awkward wait ever. To rub it in, they informed me that the ticket could be used all day, on any type of transport...including the airport bus. Ended up using it to get to der Flughaven in the end....expensive bus journey.

My mate told me after this (after he was finished laughing) that he overheard them tallking amongst themselves, to the tune of "..we may have an illegal on our hands"...which, apparently, was partly the reason they were bringing me to the police station. The ticket inspectors in Germany seem to act as unofficial immigration officers.

Moral of the story: alway pay on public transport in Germany! That 40 quid could have got me plenty of pints.

Attached a scan of the fine..for the craic

consultech

TechieEddy wrote: »

Ya got caught on the Dart before. No one was at the ticket office and the machines were broken so I couldnt get one.
Usually when that happens I can explain at the next station and just pay the fair but this guy at Gran Canal was been a real pri*k armed with his tourch and notepad!
He sent out a fine of €60. Didnt pay it. Wont be either.

Haha this guy got me too! Absolute Pr1ck, another fine example of another fuckwit in this country taking his menial job too seriously. If he had half a brain he'd ditch his power trip and pocket the money like most of the other guys at the other stations likely do!

Before I got monthly travel tax-savers through work I used to queue up and pay return fair every day from my station of origin, unless I was going to miss the train at which point Id go through the always-open gate and run the gauntlet at the other end.

The day this fooker got me he tried to make a holy show of me by shouting his canned lines for everyone to hear when I was standing 12 inches away from him. (what are we to do if we lose our ticket on the way? Surely u cud make enough of a stink and demand CCTV from origin station n all sorts? Im aware of the by-law rules by d way). Told him I didnt have ID when he asked and gave a fake name/address to send the fine out. He was dead chuffed with himself.

thebigcheese22

In my local bus, there was one of those conducters instead of us buying tickets off the driver. That was grand anyway.

But he forgot to charge me...I was puzzled - what do I do in this moral dilemma? Not pay and face my conscience for the rest of my life, or pay and be 1.60 down?

Eventually I did the right thing, and gave him the money as I got off. He gave me a weird look tho, musta tot i was crazy!

stovelid

UnderpantsGnome wrote: »

Look, if you want to insult me you'll have to be a lot smarter.

I thought you sounded foreign?

Professey Chin

dollybird09 wrote: »

wow I'm waaaaay more transparent than I thought.... :rolleyes:

6 girls, 1 homeless guy...... is there a novel/movie in that??

Movie.Im directing and starring as homeless guy

Wurly

I've been caught a fair few times. Ticket lines too long and in a rush to get home blah blah.

I'm always caught when I don't have a ticket.

Usually I don't even bother with a lie cos they never believe me. I always just give a false name and address. Or if i'm feeling really mean, the name and address of someone I hate... Usually I scan the luas first to make sure said person isn't on it. Jaysis - that would be embarrassing!:)

ams

Trí wrote: »

Or if i'm feeling really mean, the name and address of someone I hate... Usually I scan the luas first to make sure said person isn't on it. Jaysis - that would be embarrassing!:)

Brilliant!!!

bigslick

Friend of mine recently got caught on dart and gave his real name, realised his mistake and gave a fake address. Anything they can do with that if he just doesn't pay?

anonymous_joe

Was interrailing around the Netherlands mainly with a Dutch girl I went out with for a while, and ended up forgetting my ticket.

Got a right bóllocking from a Dutch ticket inspector who was annoyed with 'fúcking tourists' who wanted to fine me a couple of hundred quid but thankfully the Dutch girl charmed the guy and said I wasn't actually a tourist but a Dutch student who'd lost his ticket, to which I said 'ja' and I escaped my fine.

I later found my ticket in my pocket. :pac:

6th

r3nu4l wrote: »

Yup, I once jumped onto a train to London Liverpool street just as it was pulling out of the station. I knew I didn't have a ticket and intended to pay when I got there. Anyway, just at Harlow I saw an inspector getting on the train so I started moving from the end of the train, carriage by carriage until I got to the front of the train.

Just as the train pulled into Liverpool Street and I'm about to get off the inspector asks me for my ticket so I explained the situation (already had the fare in my hand) and then the door to the train opens. I look out onto the platform, look back at him, he looks out onto the platform, back at me and just nods his head slightly while looking at the platform again and I get off the train and don't look back.

It was beautiful man, like something from a film. God bless you train inspector, wherever you are.

But did you pay when you got off?

mirwillbeback

I got caught on a Ryanair flight once, it was taking off ( early again ) and just ran the 4 miles to the runway and jumped on as it was hurtling down the tarmac.
Was stopped as we approached landing by the inspector, ( think his name was Michael ) and he just laughed and let me off the fine, saying that it was proof Ryanair was cheapest. He just charged me 500 euro for the bag I'd carried on.

damp sponge

bigslick wrote: »

Friend of mine recently got caught on dart and gave his real name, realised his mistake and gave a fake address. Anything they can do with that if he just doesn't pay?

Hey bigslick, where is your friend from?

I would also like to know the answer to this question, for...eh... personal reasons.

r3nu4l

carlop wrote: »

Between Naples and Rome, the usual case of the inspector having a quick glance and handing it back without a bother.

That reminds me!! How could I have forgotten this? About 8 years ago I was in Rome and travelling to Naples. I had a EuroStar ticket and arrived at the Rome terminii only to be unable to find the platform. After much gesticulating of arms and pointing at signs one of the guys working at the station eventually directs me to a platform. I arrive and there's no EuroStar, instead some other bucket of rust headed for Naples.

So, there's two minutes to go before my Eurostar departs and this train leaves in about 5 minutes time. So I'm going to miss my comfy air-conditioned, speedy Eurostar and decide to hop on the rust bucket.

Then I fall asleep on the 3 hour journey only to be woken by an Inspector. I show him my ticket and he laughs long and loud. Then the bastard starts showing my ticket to other passengers and pointing at me while laughing. I'm sitting there barely awake, dying in the heat and getting redder and redder while the entire carriage has a laugh at my expense. Then he hands me the ticket and wanders off mumbling to himself.

6th wrote: »

But did you pay when you got off?

Well I used to normally buy a Monthly ticket so I had to buy it anyway for the journey home.
Would I have tried to get away with it otherwise? Not after my hero let me off like that, I just couldn't have.

/swoon.

S.I.R

bigslick wrote: »

Whether it be LUAS, DART, or bus, have you or others you know ever been caught without a ticket? Did you mean to not have a ticket? Did you get caught? Did you get away with fine?

Lot of questions I know, but saw a guy today at Pearse DART station being caught and he was fuming.

ive been caught several times, when he explained that it was a 50 euro fine, i asked for his, he said he didn't need one, i said i didn't need one has he didn't need one.

the cheek ! only bunked on a stop before to save the 5 minutes !!



after a 10 minute argument he let me go...


the w***** normally works in landsdown road station.

homerjay2005

2 times, both on LUAS. first time was just in a rush and the tram was there, second was when i just bought a 10 euro smart card that actually was only 4 euro. appealed it and it went on for 4 months before i just gave up and paid it. shower of c*nts.

Vamoose Killers

You got to be pretty special to get caught without a ticket on the Luas.

Mr Benevolent

You got to be pretty special to get caught without a ticket on the Luas.

Not true. It's hard work dodging those b*stards. I was coming home from Sandyford with no ticket, the c*nts jump on and ambush me, so I sprint off, catch the next one and the same thing happens. Then it happens on the next tram. Three feckin' times I nearly got caught in 20 minutes.

(After that I gave up and started buying my tickets.)