Without A Ticket
Ticket-less traveling by bus or by the tram-car or by train has been an age-old offense. There are different types of travelers who travel without tickets. Some travelers who travel by bus or by train don't buy tickets. The poor or money-less travelers, of course, don't buy tickets and travel free of cost until they are caught by the conductors or ticket-checking inspectors and punished. But some passengers who can afford to buy tickets intentionally don't buy them. They save money and deceive the bus-conductor or the railway department. These passengers are criminals who over crowd buses or railway compartments, much to the inconvenience of the passengers who have bought tickets.
They get into an already crowded bus and stand far away from the conductor. The conductor cannot go near them on account of the crowd of standing passengers. Before he gets the chance to discover them, they have alighted from the bus. Sometimes a ticket-less man occupies a vacant seat and pretends to have bought the ticket, he will nod his head. But if the conductor remembers that he has not yet bought it and asks him to show it, he will offer the money ask for a ticket. There are some people who get into a bus and ask for tickets to go to a place to which the bus doesn't go. The conductor asks them to get down at the next bus stop and take the right bus to go to that place. But they get into another bus moving along the same route as the previous one and ask for tickets to go to a place to which this bus also does not go. The conductor of this bus also asks them to get down at the next stop and go by the right bus. In this way, pretending to be ignorant of the proper bus to take, they travel along the same route without buying tickets.
Some strict conductor compels them to pay the minimum fare, If an inspector catches them, he compels them to pay double he fare and the fine too. When he starts checking up the tickets , the ticket-less passengers hastily retreat from him and quickly alight from the bus i it stops. The inspectors follow another method to capture the ticket-less travelers. At a stop in a busy area two inspectors stand near the entrance of the bus and two inspectors at the exit way. They check up the alighting passengers and capture the ticket-less passengers.The ticket-less passengers in trains are easily caught. Some of them get into the toilet the moment they see the ticket examiner and don't come out until the train stops at a station and until they feel sure that the ticket examiner has left their compartment. The clever ticket examiner, if he suspects the passengers in the toilet, waits on, until they come out and are caught.
Some passengers plead with him saying that they had no time to buy tickets. He collects doubly the fare and fine from them. If they quarrel with him and refuse to pay the double fare and the fine, he takes them to the railway police at the next station where the train stops and they are punished with fine and imprisonment. If they are not checked up throughout their journey, at their destination they try to walk away along the railway track and escape to the road before they are suspected and caught by the railway authorities.If the ticket examiner does not initial on the ticket checked, it helps another type of ticket-less travelers. Two men buy only one ticket for both. When the ticket examiner comes, one of them changes his place. The man with the ticket shows it to the ticket examiner, goes to his friend and hands the ticket to him without the knowledge of the ticket examiner.
Some travelers who travel by the electric trains use the old railway passes or tickets until they are caught. Some students don't buy new passes or at least tickets when their vacation is about to start in a couple of days, but carry the old passes with them and are easily caught by the ticket examiners. When the ticket-less passengers are captured and punished, they lose not only extra money but also their prestige. Through the ticket-lesss travelers the bus transport and the railway departments lose lakhs of rupees every year.
Thank you,
R.Rajkumar
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