cops and ticket bizzies at streatham station

[bluestreak]

careful how you go now.

[Winot]

Or you could - uh - buy a ticket.

[chegrimandi]

Or you could - uh - buy a ticket.

perfect example of how the urban demographic has changed.

:D

[Dan U]

Or you could - uh - buy a ticket.

or you could have a ticket and a pocketful of dope.

:eek:

[Ol Nick]

perfect example of how the urban demographic has changed.

:D
I've seen quite a few checks recently. At Waterloo and at Green Park interchange on the tube and two days running at the 59 bus stop near Oval. They've picked up quite a lot of freeloaders too I'm glad to say. A mixture of the well-dressed and the confused looking. I've no sympathy for the normal people bunking bus fares I have to say.

[tippee]

Basically watchout paranoid fare dodging dopeheads. Cops and ticket inspectors might be on a station near you.

They might be in uniform - then again they might be in plain clothes.

:rolleyes:

[Yossarian]

Warning of pigs at stations are always appreciated, particularly if they’re accompanied by dogs…

[Yossarian]

Or you could - uh - buy a ticket.

I often do, but sometimes I just don't feel like I'm getting a service worth paying for...

[Roadkill]

perfect example of how the urban demographic has changed.

:D

Sadly true, that.

[Yossarian]

I'm sure I remember enough people getting all prissy about this kind of thing back in the olden days as well - maybe not quite as many though...

[Thora]

There were loads at Seven Sisters station the other day, with a portable airport-style metal detector thing to check for weapons.

[Dubversion]

I'm sure I remember enough people getting all prissy about this kind of thing back in the olden days as well - maybe not quite as many though...


Yeh, there have always been smart arses like Winot making exactly that comment, even years ago. One person doesn't indicate any kind of broad change, it just suits certain people to pretend it does

[untethered]

Ticket revenue goes towards paying the workers' wages - or is that another thing that isn't cool for old-skool U75ers?

[Roadkill]

Yeh, there have always been smart arses like Winot making exactly that comment, even years ago. One person doesn't indicate any kind of broad change, it just suits certain people to pretend it does

Not me, dub...

Maybe this thread's a bad example. But that thread in General on the £22m-earning Barclays manager startled me a bit. A few years back you'd not have had half the boards defending the bloke and saying 'oh well, he must be worth that if they're paying him it,' would you?

Anyway, perhaps this is the wrong place for a u75 navel-gazing thread. :D

[Dubversion]

Not me, dub...

Maybe this thread's a bad example. But that thread in General on the £22m-earning Barclays manager startled me a bit. A few years back you'd not have had half the boards defending the bloke and saying 'oh well, he must be worth that if they're paying him it,' would you?

Anyway, perhaps this is the wrong place for a u75 navel-gazing thread. :D


oh, i'm not arguing that there isn't any kind of shift, i just don't see Winot's post as being in any sense an example of it. That's my point, really

[Yossarian]

Ticket revenue goes towards paying the workers' wages - or is that another thing that isn't cool for old-skool U75ers?

"Sorry Timmy - somebody didn't pay their train fare, so Daddy didn't get his wages. There'll be no Christmas this year." :(

[untethered]

"Sorry Timmy - somebody didn't pay their train fare, so Daddy didn't get his wages. There'll be no Christmas this year." :(

I think I was referring to the moral responsibility to contribute towards the operation of a service you use and the salaries of its staff, rather than constructing a flimsy straw man that a minority of journey theives means the staff go hungry.

But hey, moral responsibility was never big around here, was it?

[Yossarian]

There's always one...:D

[goldenecitrone]

Yeh, there have always been smart arses like Winot making exactly that comment, even years ago. One person doesn't indicate any kind of broad change, it just suits certain people to pretend it does

Especially people who hang out on boards without enough people to have a demographic. :)

[bluestreak]

bloody hellfire, the most innocuous things start arguments around here.

i had a ticket, i'm one of these sad losers who pay for their transport. but i make a point of tipping off my mates if there are cops about because i have a real problem with the idea of someone getting busted for the 1/8th in their pocket. i couldn't give a crap about fare dodging and tbh i wouldn't have bothered reporting it if there were just ticket plod there.

i find myself wondering what sort of crimes winot and untethered commit.

[pk]

Weapons detection is always a good thing - 5 years minimum prison for carrying a gun and 2 years for a knife would be a great thing for Londoners IMO.

[Winot]

bloody hellfire, the most innocuous things start arguments around here.

i had a ticket, i'm one of these sad losers who pay for their transport. but i make a point of tipping off my mates if there are cops about because i have a real problem with the idea of someone getting busted for the 1/8th in their pocket. i couldn't give a crap about fare dodging and tbh i wouldn't have bothered reporting it if there were just ticket plod there.



Then we don't have an argument. If you'd been tipping off about fare dodging then we might have done, if I could be arsed.



i find myself wondering what sort of crimes winot and untethered commit.



I wander uninvited into message boards and post incendiary contrary moral viewpoints.

[g force]

TBH First Crapital Connect deserve all the dodgers they get for their 'service'

[bluestreak]

I wander uninvited into message boards and post incendiary contrary moral viewpoints.

do we need to get cyber bizzies i wonder?