Guys, I got on the train (Just in time) to go back to Sheffield, where i am at University this morning. As soon as the ticket woman came to me, i had the money in my hand, i asked for a single ticket to Sheffield. Her response was ' If you have not got a ticket, you will have to pay a fine of £20 on top of your fare' WHAT THE HELL?!?! My response was ' excuse me?!, so if getting on a train without a ticket eventhough i have the money in my hand ready to buy one off you, i have to pay £20?!' And her answer was yes?! In England, Cannabis is a Class B Drug. The first time you get caught with it you get a WARNING, second time you get a £60 fine, third time you get a court case. So getting on a train without a ticket, yet with the money in my hand and with the intention of buying one, is worse (In the governments eyes) than possession of cannabis. For one, this is Ludacris comparing how much of a minor problem this is for the government. For TWO if getting on a train without a ticket, yet about to buy one is undercutting the punishment for drugs, then why the f*** isnt cannabis legal. This shows that the Government have put a higher penalty on the trains than on a CLASS B DRUG!!!!!!! Please post your views I would love to hear them, because this has annoyed me greatly Thanks
This is just economics, it's the same here too. You're supposed to have your ticket before getting on the train, having it cost more on the train itself is basically the penalty for not doing what everyone else did. It's the conductor basically saying "you done fucked up"