Ever caught without ticket?

bigslick · 26-03-2009 10:25AM #1

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 · 26-03-2009 10:27AM

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

SoWatchaWant · 26-03-2009 10:27AM

Careful now

Why no, sure I'm a model citizen.

TechieEddy · 26-03-2009 10:37AM

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 · 26-03-2009 10:37AM

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 · 26-03-2009 11:00AM

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 · 26-03-2009 11:01AM

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 · 26-03-2009 11:04AM

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

Royale with Cheese · 26-03-2009 11:08AM

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 · 26-03-2009 11:12AM

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 · 26-03-2009 11:17AM

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 · 26-03-2009 11:19AM

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 · 26-03-2009 11:57AM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:00PM

yes

Mr Benevolent · 26-03-2009 12:01PM

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

Lesson learned: Always use public transport at peak times!

UnderpantsGnome · 26-03-2009 12:02PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:06PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:07PM

UnderpantsGnome wrote: »

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

50% right is pretty close though.

AnonoBoy · 26-03-2009 12:08PM

Criminals. The lot of ye.

Never been caught myself.

carlop · 26-03-2009 12:09PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:10PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:11PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:15PM

LeahBaby wrote: »

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

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

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 26-03-2009 12:23PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:24PM

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

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

jolly ranchers:D

Professey Chin · 26-03-2009 12:27PM

LeahBaby wrote: »

jolly ranchers:D

They are also acceptable

Saruman · 26-03-2009 12:40PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:57PM

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 · 26-03-2009 12:58PM

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 · 26-03-2009 01:00PM

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 · 26-03-2009 01:04PM

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.

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