On a more serious note, we should embrace greater public subsidy of public transport fares, as is the case with continental Europe, whereas our system disproportionately relies on passenger revenue, ignoring the positive health/social/environmental/economic benefits of reduced road traffic and greater public transport use.
He tried to be smart by buying a ticket infront of the inspector
He got a fine not a criminal record and hopefully has learned a lesson
Unbelievable how he tried to avoid it instead of actually taking accountability and paying the fine.
And he is a student of law…🙄
Would you be sympathetic if in a shop he only paid for two things of three he left the shop with? Or did not pay at all?
It is theft by another name. If the courts had not the backlog they have, I would favour every person who does not pay being taken to court, and if convicted, a sanction that hurt, not a fine. Being expelled from a university course in this example, another could be a ban on travelling abroad for a period of time.
Going to court also means due process and a chance to have your time to make pathetic excuses or genuine reasons. Which on the spot fines td not.
I don’t like fare dodgers, but you have to be a certain type of little Hitler to work as someone who catches them.
Oh no he fucked around and found out.
I got caught fare dodging when I was 18 on the old long 29 busses where you didn’t really need to tap. The officer asked me how much money i had and I said tenner. He said give me the tenner and we call it quits.
Lol
Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Studies law and doesn’t know it’s only a fine? What a joke
“my life is finished”
are we sure he wasn’t a drama student not law? a bit OTT
The reason this happens is because society allowing certain individuals ‘tax breaks’ such as Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Tesco, Netflix etc while squeezing a marginal tax rate from half of London of 40%. It’s not fair and people feel to only way to chip away at some of this unfairness is to doing petty crime like this. If everyone was on the same playing field and no one was afforded tax exile status in Jersey or British virgin isles for example, or just allowed to not pay tax because they declared their income as unrealised increase in wealth, people would play by the rules.
And we are still waiting for the money stolen during covid to be returned.
It’s not a “criminal record” that will show-up on any form or DBS or vetting check! LOL
In my youth I literally must’ve gotten 100+ “fare-evasion notices” from the ticket inspectors on trains, whilst travelling to college…
But yet not a single one shows on my DBS! 😁
*(And that’s when I never paid any / Plus gave a fake name & address for half of them!)* Hahaha
I used to know a solicitor. He had had CCJs in school. Rented out his NI number. Regularly fare jumped on trains. He would go to Lidl,stuff a bag full of croissants and not pay.
Zero integrity. He was just awful .Even though he was a phenomenal lay,I couldn’t stand him.
Thank God thats over
You know the best way to address fare dodging?
Cheaper fares.
Forgive my ignorance, but If the police weren’t there why didn’t he just run?
I did an FCA themed conduct training for some new grads, and the number of them that were shocked fare dodging is a bad thing sure was something.
Good. As a young adult, there is no excuse to steal. Good luck with the new career search!
I love that show. Not for the “thieves getting caught” aspect, but more the behind-the-scenes stuff about how they catch the fare dodgers, the data they have access to, and how it’s used. It’s actually really fascinating from that standpoint, just like those border control shows where you see how drugs are smuggled in and intercepted, and the crazy foodstuffs people try to get through biosecurity.
How is this newsworthy?
For someone who needs to be behaving a strict set of rules for his chosen profession it is a silly thing to do and I hope he gladly accept thr fine, his mistake and pays it off and never does it again. Hopefully this brush with the law and the fact that getting caught puts his chosen career in jeopardy will make him see sense at how foolish this is
What an obnoxious mobile website, couldn’t even read the article covered in pop ups, Jesus Christ.
This is a setup to put fear into people. Don’t buy it. Keep fare dodging.
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It’s a fine, not a criminal record lol.
On a more serious note, we should embrace greater public subsidy of public transport fares, as is the case with continental Europe, whereas our system disproportionately relies on passenger revenue, ignoring the positive health/social/environmental/economic benefits of reduced road traffic and greater public transport use.
He tried to be smart by buying a ticket infront of the inspector
He got a fine not a criminal record and hopefully has learned a lesson
Unbelievable how he tried to avoid it instead of actually taking accountability and paying the fine.
And he is a student of law…🙄
Would you be sympathetic if in a shop he only paid for two things of three he left the shop with? Or did not pay at all?
It is theft by another name. If the courts had not the backlog they have, I would favour every person who does not pay being taken to court, and if convicted, a sanction that hurt, not a fine. Being expelled from a university course in this example, another could be a ban on travelling abroad for a period of time.
Going to court also means due process and a chance to have your time to make pathetic excuses or genuine reasons. Which on the spot fines td not.
I don’t like fare dodgers, but you have to be a certain type of little Hitler to work as someone who catches them.
Oh no he fucked around and found out.
I got caught fare dodging when I was 18 on the old long 29 busses where you didn’t really need to tap. The officer asked me how much money i had and I said tenner. He said give me the tenner and we call it quits.
Lol
Never underestimate the power of stupidity
Studies law and doesn’t know it’s only a fine? What a joke
“my life is finished”
are we sure he wasn’t a drama student not law? a bit OTT
The reason this happens is because society allowing certain individuals ‘tax breaks’ such as Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Tesco, Netflix etc while squeezing a marginal tax rate from half of London of 40%. It’s not fair and people feel to only way to chip away at some of this unfairness is to doing petty crime like this. If everyone was on the same playing field and no one was afforded tax exile status in Jersey or British virgin isles for example, or just allowed to not pay tax because they declared their income as unrealised increase in wealth, people would play by the rules.
And we are still waiting for the money stolen during covid to be returned.
It’s not a “criminal record” that will show-up on any form or DBS or vetting check! LOL
In my youth I literally must’ve gotten 100+ “fare-evasion notices” from the ticket inspectors on trains, whilst travelling to college…
But yet not a single one shows on my DBS! 😁
*(And that’s when I never paid any / Plus gave a fake name & address for half of them!)* Hahaha
Sounds like a sitcom more than reallife.
great lawyer to be
A lot of people saying it’s only a fine etc., but a lawyer did actually get struck off for this: [link ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legalcheek.com/2019/01/junior-solicitor-struck-off-for-fare-dodging-just-two-years-after-qualifying/amp/)
I used to know a solicitor. He had had CCJs in school. Rented out his NI number. Regularly fare jumped on trains. He would go to Lidl,stuff a bag full of croissants and not pay.
Zero integrity. He was just awful .Even though he was a phenomenal lay,I couldn’t stand him.
Thank God thats over
You know the best way to address fare dodging?
Cheaper fares.
Forgive my ignorance, but If the police weren’t there why didn’t he just run?
I did an FCA themed conduct training for some new grads, and the number of them that were shocked fare dodging is a bad thing sure was something.
Good. As a young adult, there is no excuse to steal. Good luck with the new career search!
I love that show. Not for the “thieves getting caught” aspect, but more the behind-the-scenes stuff about how they catch the fare dodgers, the data they have access to, and how it’s used. It’s actually really fascinating from that standpoint, just like those border control shows where you see how drugs are smuggled in and intercepted, and the crazy foodstuffs people try to get through biosecurity.
How is this newsworthy?
For someone who needs to be behaving a strict set of rules for his chosen profession it is a silly thing to do and I hope he gladly accept thr fine, his mistake and pays it off and never does it again. Hopefully this brush with the law and the fact that getting caught puts his chosen career in jeopardy will make him see sense at how foolish this is
What an obnoxious mobile website, couldn’t even read the article covered in pop ups, Jesus Christ.
This is a setup to put fear into people. Don’t buy it. Keep fare dodging.
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