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While it's moving ?????The "fine" in France can include expulsion from the train.
Hola! I never new that, you live and learn, but yes, 'por un momento de descuido......' and they do make you feel like you did it on purpose!Hola - weekly tickets in Spain need to be validated at those machines in stations - called the Borrador. I jumped the train without using it thinking that the conductor would simply punch the ticket like in the UK. You'd have thought it was a capital offence. I was given a stern warning that any further attempted cheating would result in a fine and being asked to leave the train. Welcome to Spain!
Ouch! I think I'd have fumed like Vesuvius too, I think I would have been locked up for abusive language.You got off lightly @sulu, when I was in Naples I got nabbed by an inspector and despite my ticket showing the faint marks of the date stamp from the machine (and my three travel mates verifying I had stuck it in the machine, how else would the metro gates open for me) he demanded I hand over 160 euro in cash then and there. I stuck to my guns and asked to be taken to the station office as I felt I was being shaken down, it was a one day ticket after all, and eventually after considerable manhandling and abuse an off duty cop arrived... The fine was reduced to 60 euro, with receipt. I fumed like Vesuvius which Scott thought very funny.
While it's moving ?????
Yes, because those tickets are valid for ANYTIME. If you don't 'validate' them in the machine on your day of travel, you could use them again and again.... Which of course would be fraud. Hence the reaction of the 'officials'Hola - weekly tickets in Spain need to be validated at those machines in stations - called the Borrador. I jumped the train without using it thinking that the conductor would simply punch the ticket like in the UK. You'd have thought it was a capital offence. I was given a stern warning that any further attempted cheating would result in a fine and being asked to leave the train. Welcome to Spain!
I jumped the train without using it thinking that the conductor would simply punch the ticket like in the UK.
In France it would not worry them in the slightest
I wouldn't bet on that. In Italy they seem to go specifically for trains full of tourists, it's a good way of getting income.I guess that in the Bayonne-SJPP trail there are so many clueless foreign tourists that inspectors don't care too much, but I would not take a risk.
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