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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Welcome to the Uk, Where paying the Government Extra Gets You Fined

Is it any wonder that our cousins across the pond in the UK are having so much trouble balancing their books? Take the story of Martyn Evans, a British professor who bought his train ticket and was riding home when he changed his mind and chose to get off the train before his originally planned stop. In other words, he paid full price to enjoy less service.

The fearsome British nanny state would have none of that.
Evans, upon trying to exit the station, found that when he swiped his transit ticket through the exiting machine’s reader, it refused to open for him. When he spoke to staff at the station, they informed him that by getting off the train earlier than planned, he had violated his user conditions for purchasing the ticket, and would have to pay a fine of 155 pounds.'

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